8-person parties -- Good? Bad?

[Arcell]

That's true. But splitting into 2 groups is not really the same. ><

It's pretty much the same except the numbers are slightly smaller. The system exists now and it's honestly for the best. I had to exclude someone from a party last night because ours was full. You know what happened? He said "Okay, that's fine." and found something else to do. No complaints, no hurt feelings, he understood and moved on. I'm in a decent sized LS and we find ways to make the new grouping system work. We organize multiple parties for events, we organize events specifically tailored to the party size or that completely ignores the party size.

This is the new system and it's honestly here to stay. 8 is a generous number and it's honestly for the best. At this point you have to adapt and learn to live with it. The change allows the development team to more easily balance content when considering a single team.

This is just another example of people being resistant to change. If the game had launched with an 8-person party you'd just accept it and move on. That's what we need to do now because I cannot see it changing again.

[Mikita]

It's pretty much the same except the numbers are slightly smaller. The system exists now and it's honestly for the best. I had to exclude someone from a party last night because ours was full. You know what happened? He said "Okay, that's fine." and found something else to do. No complaints, no hurt feelings, he understood and moved on. I'm in a decent sized LS and we find ways to make the new grouping system work. We organize multiple parties for events, we organize events specifically tailored to the party size or that completely ignores the party size.

This is the new system and it's honestly here to stay. 8 is a generous number and it's honestly for the best. At this point you have to adapt and learn to live with it. The change allows the development team to more easily balance content when considering a single team.

This is just another example of people being resistant to change. If the game had launched with an 8-person party you'd just accept it and move on. That's what we need to do now because I cannot see it changing again.

I'm all for change when it improves the game.
I just -personally- don't think this was an improvement because of the way I liked to enjoy the game before the patch.

But it's very clear now that most people are happy with the change, so I'm done here. Time to move on.

Thank you everyone for your thoughts and for keeping this thread civilized.

[Rentahamster]

but it wasnt

And it shouldn't have been, IMO.

[Vanguard319]

Especially if you pounce as soon as the BW pops and your addition to behest fails to load as you are too quick for the server. That really annoys me.

Of course, you could always try Bald Knoll, or another camp that is rarely occupied, saw some ppl doing behests @ Iron lake just yesterday.