Does the clique meta affect games?

[Archwing]

Yeah I'd say cliques play a lot into things. First time I played a normal with Boonskiies and his "boon babes" I had no idea wtf was going on. I had fun with it though. And now I enjoy playing games with some of those people.

I think there are some games i shy away from because of the group's that are in there, cause I feel like their relations with Each other would over power my Game play/experience.