Join in Progress is awesome ... (Destiny)

by Kermit , Raleigh, NC, Monday, June 08, 2015, 23:17 (3500 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I don't have to like that to say Join in Progress as implemented is good and worth the occasional instance of that happening--it might be different if a medallion really was the worst thing ever and didn't also coincide with the easiest chance you've ever gotten at earning some good gear.

Respectfully, stop focusing on the medallion and rewards. Trust me, I'm very sorry I spoke of the loot at all!

Instead, I want you to focus on the system as a whole and on how it might affect me and you. Because I was stuck loading into a game that ended before I got there, I was not available to potentially replace a member of your team in a game that had plenty of time left. The Join in Progress system, as implemented, would have let both me and you down, but it might have given us both what we wanted if there was a simple check in place to prevent players from being joined into games that will end "too soon."

I see this as the same as people complaining about the RNG. Getting mad at the game for this (and for most other things) seems overwrought to me. I say that respectfully.

I (respectfully again) disagree. The RNG system, for better or worse, is deliberate and should not be compared to the things I brought up in this topic. I doubt the matchmaking system trying to join me into a game that ended before I got to play is something that is supposed to happen. Instead, what happened to me was likely an unintended failure of the matchmaking and join in progress systems. I think if such failures can be avoided with no or even minimal impact on the rest of Destiny's players then it should be avoided.

I think the system works exactly the way you described it to Cruel above. Any fix I imagine to the problems you describe regarding Join in Progress I see as potentially introducing other problems. Sometimes the system yields suboptimal results, but I'm pretty sure it's working as intended.