General Party groups

[AshSpillsTea]

Hello, lately I have been playing with a lot of my friends (in party games and murder) but we cannot seem to get a game all by ourselves. So I was wondering if we can have all members in a party be able to get into a separate game all by themselves. It would be really helpful for those who would like to be just with the people in their party so that it wouldn't be considered "ghosting" when they talk to each other in skype, discord, teamspeak, ect. Even if it means just people with ranks can go into a game all by themselves with their party, I know I would appreciate it if that was a thing and I'm sure others will too.

 

[aiden]

You can't go into an empty lobby?

 

[MariTheVillain]

Yea... just go to an empty lobby... this seems to stem a lot from suggestions previously made in which private lobby servers for parties and private games were suggested, and in both cases they were rejected due to the high potential upkeep that this system would cause, along with a relative lack of potential income by a diminishing player base, along with potential (probable) lack of moderation in these areas.

Case and point:

You can't go into an empty lobby?

just said it perfectly. Just join an empty lobby and hope for the best...

 

[fizz]

Isn't this essentially suggesting the implementation of private lobbies for parties? If so, then this shouldn't be implemented as having private servers for just you and your friends would make moderation for staff quite difficult. In these private games, we will not know whether people are breaking the rules or not, this could lead to a lot of unnecessary drama.
Additionally, if private servers were added most people would play alone/with a few friends, leading to less people in public games. If you're not talking about private lobbies, are you instead talking about being able to join a public lobby that's empty and other people can join? If so then that's no different to any other lobby. If you don't mean this, do you mean players can individually join a game whilst in a party? If so there's no use for the party command then.
Most of the time a party can all join the same game, but there'll always be other players - this gives you the chance to make new friends!