You can play with friends without having to Grand Company stack with 24 people. You do NOT have to be on the same team to play with people. Just like playing a board game, card game, fighting game, racing game or whatever. If the goal is to have good competition as I'm reading it would be better matches to separate teams and go Premade vs Premade. If people are willing to Q sync together, why are people not willing to Q sync against each other?

So, let's not twist it. We know the majority goal is to use a loophole, have 90% win rates and eat people for dinner. This was not a necessity to people when 8 man premades were possible. Yes, they dominated but not to that level. I could join in on the fun of doing that too...but its pretty grey area and not healthy for PvP overall. Bring back 8 man premades or yeah just rework grand company system perhaps to all freelancers. 4 Man premades is not the best situation, but it's not totally "omg I can't play with friends"