I enjoyed the chaotic nature of 3-Team Format. Ballgroup gameplay and bomber abuse was not common or easy to do in 4v4v4. 8v8 enables much more abusive gameplay such as these as well as brings to the front many glaring issues with the game such as block-bot tanking as well (more players means more damage means more players succumbing to block-tank playstyle which is entirely no-fun). The maps in 3-Team format were really cool. The fact that ZOS removed content and replaced it with lesser content in the 4v4 and 8v8 is the 2nd worst part. The #1 worst part about 8v8 is that the queue breaks almost every time I try to get into a match (someone disconnects either on accident or on purpose to troll 15 other souls out of 10 minutes of their lives at a a time). The new battleground queues are some of the most exploitable content in the game starting with the straight up queues. I get less matches overall than I used to before the Battleground Demake. Less matches, broken queues resulting in no gameplay and 10 minutes waiting in spawn, then IF I get a match its a bunch of proc abuse and ballgrouping cranked up to 110% because you're forcing 16 people into a small uninteresting map and pretending any kind of strategy aside from abusing mechanics will suddenly start happening. Enjoy getting spawn camped when your match is inevitably imbalanced and you couldn't carry the players who are just trying to get their daily BG PVP rewards (you know, that thing that used to be way more accessible in 3-Team Format to players participating?).

Disaster. Bring back 3-Team Battlegrounds as an option for queue and leave 8v8 uselessness for those who whined to have it made (streamers/youtubers and secret PVP "hardcore" trainingwheels abusers) so they can farm their lil Youtube Shorts of them "popping off".

Edit: somehow didn't see how old this thread is? smh