The New Chat Restriction in The Feast

[Zojha]

If im reading right, ranked team enables chat again, and removes entirely the problems with coordinating with randoms totally.

It already had those perks when it existed before (doubly with voice apps). It was even easier to make a team, too, since you didn't have to register anything, you could just take any random four people and queue at leisure.

People are still going to queue solo because organizing four people to be online at the same time on a schedule isn't something most people want to do. This starts a positive feedback loop: Since people don't want to organize a team, there are less teams there. Less teams means slower queues. That in turn makes organizing a team harder, because you're waiting longer on a game. That makes people even less inclined to organize a team. Start from the beginning.

What I personally would just love to see from it, if only for the hilarity of it, is SE inviting a bunch of wintraders to an official tournament because they're the only people in the team ratings. That'd be a real shocker. But that's drifting off topic.