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    Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
    To be honest: If the premade stomps enough for me to even notice it's a premade (I don't look at names), the game isn't fun and I rather do something else - and consequently do just that. Personally, I feel that if the games are shit, I am no worse off not playing them.

    Plus, that is exactly why the mechanism works in the first place. Boycott and strikes in general do not work if things remain functional during the period. If you boycott unethically produced products, that only works if there's a harsh cut in the companies profit margins caused by it - if the product remains profitable, they won't change their behavior. Same applies if you and your co-workers strike against abusive work conditions. The company won't care one bit if business is not considerably affected. It's an action made to forcefully induce change by exerting the power you have due to the interdependency of the parties. And that only works if you actually have power.
    Interdependency: assuming the PVP community cares much about itself, which it doesn't.

    At worst, big groups of 8+ people can get 8v8 queues without much difficulty or just do 4v4s. And this isn't something that should need to be boycotted outside of particularly disruptive tactics. Half the fun of any game is playing it with other people, ideally there's just either matchmaking or a big enough crowd with enough organized players that you rarely see a full premade stomping on a group of all-randoms.

    No reason for players to punish themselves or each other when very little of this is our fault. It's annoying as hell to lose to the same premade over and over, but it's not their fault there's no competition and not enough of a population to get games without them in a mode that was designed to be a free for all. Anyone with friends in PVP wants to play with them, and no one likes losing--even if people are hive-minded about GCs, that's to be expected in PVP.

    Would it be nice if people would be more nurturing to their own community, and try not to crash events with big premades that other people don't like? Sure. What would be nicer is developers who understand that people aren't going to be this way, and understand how to make a PVP community thrive, anyway, so that it doesn't have to come to stupid discussions like boycotting a dying area of the game because good players like to play together.
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    Last edited by FunkYeahDragons; 08-30-2016 at 09:53 PM.