That's not the important part. (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, June 07, 2015, 05:04 (3502 days ago) @ Funkmon

If you join into a losing game, the only thing that happens is you get less rep. Too bad.

However, if you are on and nobody can rejoin more than halfway in the match, any disconnect is a virtually guaranteed loss. Quick replacements allow you to continue.

So, I'd much rather join in and spend 3 minutes getting rep, experience, and bounty progess than spend 10 minutes in the same game where for 5 we're doomed because nobody can join in and it's just me and three level 12 guys using scout rifles on anomaly.

I think it's doing it fine. Implementing your proposition would save you about 2 minutes at the expense of fucking a whole team and wasting much more of their time.

Or, I might get no rep at all if I get joined into a losing Iron Banner game. Tonight I go my 5th Medallion because Destiny's complete lack of join in progress sanity had me joining a game that either ran out of time or who's score was complete before I even made it down from orbit. If that had been my 6th coin then trying to join me into that game would have been a complete and preventable waste.

Perhaps five minutes is not the right point to disable joins, but surely there is a right point. Would you be happy with a game that last five seconds after you spawn? How about a single minute? Or two minutes? Etc. Sure, there are times I'm playing for Marks and would kinda not mind a quick loss, but a vast majority of the time I'm playing for fun. Overly short games are not fun to me.

And, on games where losing players has lead to an unbalanced and unrecoverable score difference, the people having a bad time will probably not have a significantly better time just because Ragashingo, or Funkmon or whoever lost along with them some eight minutes in. But to me, there is a world of difference between starting out in a fair, winnable game vs being joined into one where I have no chance.

Basically, what I am proposing is if Destiny can get new player in before the game has gone on too long and before the scores have spread too far then of course it should. But if it can't, then it shouldn't waste our time by putting us into a bad game.