Is this a statistical anomaly? Or something else?

[Vandril]

@Bigceto - I can't imagine most bots wouldn't be queueing as Freelancer for the quicker queues.

@Geryth - I'd call this just a streak of bad luck. Most people queue freelancer nowadays, so skill difference between GCs has been largely minimized. You can try changing your GC if you really think there's something going on, but any change you notice from it is likely to be placebo. My advice is to just keep on keeping on. We all have days like that once in a while.

[AdamZ]

@Geryth - I'd call this just a streak of bad luck. Most people queue freelancer nowadays, so skill difference between GCs has been largely minimized. You can try changing your GC if you really think there's something going on, but any change you notice from it is likely to be placebo. My advice is to just keep on keeping on. We all have days like that once in a while.

It is more then a streak of bad luck. Basically this is a further magnification of issues we have always had in frontlines.

Pre freelancer you had the better players queing for the same GC, freeloaders would then follow behind into said GC and the better players move on to the next one

When freelancer hit it was then a pre-made is rolling in blank GC and crushing everyone, leading to some bad luck, but otherwise, you had close to a balance win rate as OP noted.

They changed pre-mades now, that you auto to freelancer, so people have gone back to solo que but the better players in the same GC. This has been made worse then it ever was by Bots and people just farming Xp. You now have min chance on this groups as a result, even if they are not bots, they are generally people who do not care for winning or losing, and you are lucky to get more then 2 healers out of the 24.

You also have the issue that a skilled player has alot less carry potential in frontlines now. It was never large, but a few good players use to make a difference. Now unless that skill is magically making everyone stay together and hit the same target, the skill of those few good players is moot.

[Korihu]

They changed pre-mades now, that you auto to freelancer, so people have gone back to solo que but the better players in the same GC.

Wut. People don't solo queue into the same GC. We don't care what gc we end up in. When we premades well just carry whoever team we get in. Why would we risk being in separate parties and matches for the sake of being in one GC? Especially when we've been clamouring for freelancer for so long.

[Guesswhat]

My experience on Chaos:
Freelance = flames 8-9/10 times.
Mael wins the majority of the matches.

It's not coincidence, unless it's been a coincidence for over a month now.

[Brownondorf]

My experience on Chaos:
Freelance = flames 8-9/10 times.
Mael wins the majority of the matches.

It's not coincidence, unless it's been a coincidence for over a month now.

i seriously dont know what happenned since stormblood release but maelstrom is steamrolling on everygames, flames always attack adders for some reasons and its nearly impossible to win. I had less than 15% win rate previous week. won 4 games out of 28 i think...

I'm at 50 wins away from the black ADS mount (most of it was prior to stormblood) and it might be impossible to get it before frontlines is deserted at this rate. Truly kills my motivation to play this mode anymore.

[Guesswhat]

i seriously dont know what happenned since stormblood release but maelstrom is steamrolling on everygames, flames always attack adders for some reasons and its nearly impossible to win. I had less than 15% win rate previous week. won 4 games out of 28 i think...

I'm at 50 wins away from the black ADS mount (most of it was prior to stormblood) and it might be impossible to get it before frontlines is deserted at this rate. Truly kills my motivation to play this mode anymore.

Change grand company! Seriously, if you want to win and never get in Mael with freelance on, just change (on Chaos freelance rarely puts you in mael). Once you got the mount just chanage back if you want to. You'll need 50k gil pr transfer though.

I just play for fun mostly, but I must admin being in Meal, getting all those wins helps on the fun factor.

[AdamZ]

Wut. People don't solo queue into the same GC. We don't care what gc we end up in. When we premades well just carry whoever team we get in. Why would we risk being in separate parties and matches for the sake of being in one GC? Especially when we've been clamouring for freelancer for so long.

It is likely a primal thing. But they are doing it to ensure one of the other parties is not a bot party. Most of the good players where Mael on primal, shortly before freelancer came out. Given how GC did not matter, most then are still Mael now. So we are back to a pre freelancer state where the better players que to Mael. The bots que flames/adders, and it just further feeds the issue we had before.

If they where doing what you say on primal, you would get these pre-mades in the other GC's (like you did after the start of freelancer), but you do not get that anymore.

Again, Primal thing, we likely have more bots, cause primal...