The reason people make premades

I gotta admit that when I saw you name on the "Last Post" of the forum thread I came in here expecting an argument lol.

right on the spot. this is exactly why.

I like to PvP with friends, it's fun. It's why I play an MMO. You might as well be an NPC I can't talk to you.

OP is rude but many feel the same way. The skill disparity between players in PvP is amazing in this game.

Never seen so many keyboard turners ever. In Rift you'd see them sometimes, not often. It was a fun novelty to jump over them repeatedly and watch them slowly turn to face you. In TOR it has just gotten old now and is no longer fun to mess with these people.

Not to make excuses for anyone, but I have actually seen Huttball incorrectly assign the "Your team". Like you are on the Frogdogs, you respawn from the Frogdog endzone. But you look up and it says you are a Rotworm.

Not every premade is good, there are tons of bad players who run premades because it's usually easy win when you out gear 90% of your opponents.
Most of the "pro" premades will fail in ranked WZs when they face other coordinated teams, I see some premades failing playing good PuGs.

There's nothing preventing people from strafing sporadically so they don't get too far away from the melee chasing them in the situation you described. You don't need backpeddle for baiting a melee away from a door or for anything.

Unbinding backpeddle gives you an extra super useful easily reached keybind to use on an important skill instead of wasting it on backpeddle which you should never use in pvp. Even if you did use backpeddle every once in a while, bind it to another key that isn't as good as the S.

how about the actual Football where the ball is actually a ball.
on a stadium with 100k+ spectators running vuvuzelas and all the sorts, it can be hard to hear anything. also everything you shouted, your opponent gets it too. that's why good playmakers should have great awareness and vision on the field. communication can be as minimum as brief eye contacts.

I have been on both sides, spent the majority of the first 3 months pugging it, was eventually recruited by a guild, and started rolling premades with my guildies.

The simple truth is that while there is nothing "morally wrong" about running a premade on voice, you are nevertheless creating an environment, in a game, that is literally no fun for the people you are playing against.

"Well they need to L2P! It's not our fault they are baddies!" 100% true. But the fact that it is true doesn't make them hate you less... And if that is your stance, you have the right to maintain it, but don't come in the forums saying "why all the hate, I'm just having a good time with my friends?"

No, you are having a good time with your friends, at someone else's expense, and they WILL resent you for that.

So what do you do? Here's an idea, that most people won't be down for, but maybe some will...

Actively try to make the WZ fun, or at least tolerable, for the people you are crushing. Throw the WZ? Never. But maybe cap two turrets when youre capable of capping and holding 3. Give them a minute or two to get some defense medals, and then send some peeps over there for some 3 v 8s. The 3 people get the challenge of seeing how many they can take out before they die, and the PuGs get some medals and have something to do other than standing around complaining about how much they hate premades. Maybe even tell them that's what you are doing in gen chat. You know, be civil.

I was in Voidstar once, my team had 5 to their 8, AND they were much better on average than us. After going through the entire attacking round where I am pretty sure we didn't even give their doors a stern look, I saw their OPS leader telling them in gen chat not to plant any bombs. I was pissed, and I said so back to him. Then he responded with "since you guys are so shorthanded, we are gonna leave the winner up to chance", and then we spent the entire second round just having 1v1 fights. Not only was it actually kind of fun, but it struck me as the classiest behavior I have ever seen in a WZ.

Or you can dominate them, put 1 person at each turret and the other 5 camping their spawn, laugh to yourselves, talk smack in gen chat, emoting taunts. You have that right.

Or how about in real WAR, which is what these WARzones are meant to simulate, where someone would definitely be on a comm saying a base was being attacked. Saying people shouldn't be allowed to communicate effectively is an argument that is never gonna win.