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

by Claude Errera , Monday, June 08, 2015, 00:38 (3501 days ago) @ Ragashingo

True, the logic is certainly hugely complex. In general I think Destiny has quicker matchmaking times than Halo did and part of that might very well be it's method of getting people into games as quickly as possible. The things I'm asking for might very well wreck the system for all I know. It might raise match times from ~30 seconds to three minutes if there aren't enough players around to form two new teams or something like that. I would love to just sit down with those in charge of the matchmaking process talk about and learn about why things work the way they do. Not demand they fix things, mind you, just a pleasant chat about the awesome technologies and trade offs that make all this stuff work.

Not sure how aware you were of this stuff during the Halo: Reach era - but join-in-progress happened BECAUSE of outcry from the community, in response to quit rates. You're unhappy as the joiner - but the 4-5 joinees are actually more important (from the standpoint of the greater good) than you.

And the arguments made by others - if you stay, you're almost guaranteed a no-jip game, it doesn't take so long, you get free stuff (most of the time) for no work - are true.

It's definitely frustrating to get dumped on loser teams a minute (or less, or even a little more) from the end... but the alternatives are even worse for all the members of the team that lost people.