Can we please have the option to que for ranked 8v8? it would be fun to challenge another team and not in an areana. it would be fun to have the option. even if nobody ever used it, it should be in the game.

We should be able to que 8 mans.

Not sure why they left. Population cant get much worse so worring about que times is not a valid argument anymore. give those who want to play the options. ranked teams queing isnt going to destroy the que population, it will probably bring more ppl back than it will drive out. Bring it Back Please!!!!!

Hows the pubs on this server? How are solo ranked? How are the guild on pubside? How are the guild on ImpSide? Looking to try a new server, have a few different toons, just looking for a good PvP community.

i'm geared fine. had one dude DC as the round started, then a second just quit cuz its an auto loss had a second guy get mowed down in 2 secs, then quit 3rd time had a guy quit after a close first round which we lost, but barely...stood no chance w/ 3v4 4th time guy just quit randomly.

BACKFILL THE QUITTERS or do something. Yeah Solo Ranked sucks most of the time, but it gets me the ranked comms...UNFORTUNATELY I have to grind the reg warzones to get EVERY conq peice now and cant just directly buy ear/imlant/relic. But I lost 4 solos because people QUIT. Seriously..THAT is game breaking IMO...which was stated before but now I have to actually deal with it and hopefully so does Bioware.

just formed a new guild! PvP focused. LF players to play primarily ranked. We want to be competetive but not exclusive. Lots of good PvP'ers on JC w/o guilds or having trouble getting groups together for PvP, come join us! Message Daak in game.

GOOD Yes be fully augmented, even if you dont have the augments yet. mod your gear and put them in as you can. any level.

I was moving inventory in my cargo hold, the ranked que pop came up and the x button was over the leave ranked que button and when I clicked to x teh cargo hold it x'ed the ranked que so my team had to go in 1 short. This needs to change, especially since you're planning so much more ranked to happen. There needs to be a confirm leave que button. This has happened before in reg ques when I was on the GTN, but never in ranked. gonna be some mad ppl if you miss a ranked que cuz of that. kinda like me right now.

What is the ETA for 2.5? are we talking a week after 2.4 of 2 months??

Is there a date for 2.5? You're losing all of Pof5 PvPers over this.

My math was soo forgiving you're missing that I am being so unduly giving that many people play. if 1600 people play and the whole population of players was only 200k were still talking, essentially nobody playing ranked. Point: Ranked is dead as far as the numbers that Devs look at, so a 'big change' really isnt a big change since >1% of the entire sub player base is actually playing ranked. Point: removing it from the 8v8 from the system will piss off such a minority in terms of ppl who actually do it they dont see it as a big loss from a numbers standpoint. I for one think its a good thing to have in the game because, as it seems by reading all the info so far, there will be no access for guilds to partake in 8v8, which is the closest thing to OPs for PvP'ers. Its similar to only limiting PvE to Flashpoints from a social standpoint. What is the point of having a 'large guild' that is PvP only?? there isn't even the opportunity to do anything in a large group. Also couple of good points so far: 1) 4man premades queing in regular arenas are gonna be stupid upsetting to the 'casual playerbase'. LMAO at watching the top guilds rollface in regs to do their daily grinds and just stop face for fun, if that isn't griefing in its truest sense what is? 2) The why they are removing the problems with scripting the queing system of 8v8ranked is solid; but if they could just allow 8v8 ranked or unranked it would be pretty awesome. Imagine this: Guild A trash talks Guild B, 8v8 still exists with no ranking or anything attached, just the ability to que only an 8 person Op group vs 8 person op group; it would be similar to the Group Finder in terms of that it is essentially dead for anyone but preformed OP groups queing, that would allow some mechanic in the game for Guild A to go against Guild B in a 'battle royal' type thing. No need for any incentives or anything, just since the mechanic is there leave it there, keep that >1% happy. If 2.4 drops with the said changes, they are non-incentivising large guilds other than to have XP bonuses for PvP'ers.

From the simple stand point that there are 'around' 400k-500k subs or whatever, plus FTPers. Even if the number was as low as 200K players playing the game it goes like this: 17 Servers, say all of them had 12 teams that played ranked (gross assumption, some are PVE servers, some pvp may have more teams) and that each 8v8 ranked teams requires 8 players. That is about 1632 players in the game playing ranked, lets pretend the teams have backup players and we can bump the number up to 2000 players playing ranked - Across the whole sub base. Lets say theres only 200k players playing SWTOR, that 2000 players is only 1% of the playerbase. And I'm guessing high on players and low on subs. So for less than 1% of the people actually playing they're making the changes. The other few hundred thousand players now get a chance to have exposure to ranked, cause getting on a ranked team is way harder than getting into an OPs group and doing a HM Operation. Doesn't mean anyone is good or bad anywhere, its about ease of entry into the game. If I was the CEO or a Dev I'd make the decsion to include the 99+% of players more regularly than the >1%. I think removing 8v8 ranked or making 8v8 different than what it is now is silly, since group-finder has Ops which is used probably 95% of the time by an OP group queing through GF for the comms, and WZ's should/could have something similar. They Made nightmare modes for the >1%; lets hope they keep the >1% in mind when tweaking Warzones down the line post 2.4.

I dropped $100 real dollars to get into 8v8 warzones. Didnt complain about it because I wanted to move to server that had healthy ranked competetion. You havent removed any Operations from the game, and ranked is the equivelant of operations for pvp guilds. I'm super excited about arenas, I leveled a new toon just to be 'ready' for what group comps will be needed and Love the game, but seriously your taking away something that was good (you have nightmare ops for elite players, similar to 8v8 ranked). I could have saved $100 dollars because I can do ranked on a PvE server with your 'fixing' ranked. I'm just dissapointed because that kinda of info before I threw around real money, nearly a years worth of subscription, would have been nice to know. I love the game, but I just got 'ganked'.

Why would you remove a portion of the game that 'only a small number play'? Its in the game and some people love it. People actually actively play it you're taking away something that keeps players playing your game. its in the game and it can really differentiate guilds from each other in the RWZ scene. Nightmare Ops are developed and worked on for only a small part of the population and you keep hacking away at those and making new ones. Nightmare Ops = Ranked 8v8wzs ; the PvP and PvE players upper level equivalents. If the only ranked queing is going to be 4v4 or solo then you CANNOT enter a 8v8 hutball(or whichever map) match in ranked, which some people LOVE about this game. You're esentially removing the equivilent of 8man ops in PVP; what would the PvE community do if you got rid of 16 man ops or nerfed all ops to Flashpoints only?????? No guilds brag about world first Flashpoint clearings?? Ranked will be limited to arenas only is the silliest thing ever?!?!! You're removing 8v8 ops groups from entering the objective based warzones that have been on the greatest things about this game. You are removing Operations from PvPers essentially!!!! You are removing Operations from an MMO. I propose that you keep the same que system you have now and JUST ADD the arena changes you outlined in the blog post similar to the PvE groupfinder que. You can still que for 8man ops in the groupfinder; and sitting in that que can take HOURS AND HOURS; but its still in the game. Do not punish the players who enjoy PvP Ops; keep 8v8 Ranked alive.