Another Plea To Bungie, Re: Join In Progress Sanity (Destiny)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Sunday, June 07, 2015, 23:16 (3501 days ago) @ Ragashingo

The best solution of course is to not play alone. You are very unlikely to join halfway if you have a fireteam.

That's not a solution Bungie can implement. They can't mandate that everyone always have friends willing and able to play with them.

Sure they can. They can disable matchmaking.

Since, as I understand it (I don't play Crucible/IB much at all) when a game ends, each team goes straight into matchmaking for the next game unless somebody backs out. If the game has just matched a random, or a group of randoms, with a fireteam, then it seems likely to me you'll get put into the same player group for the next game if nobody backs out.

So the point of matchmaking isn't just balancing out the teams, it's about keeping a side together. Instead of waiting for the next game and hoping nobody backs out, Destiny is putting you on a side as soon as it can, even if it means putting you in a game that's about to end, rather than waiting until the game ends. Perhaps the logic is that it's better to do that to individual players than it is to make matchmaking take longer for the rest.