Please, stop destroying multiplayer games.
Waiting
What is the worst thing in games in general? To me is having to wait to play like long loading screens, waiting queues, etc, anything that delay the game starting is overall really bad.
I don’t want to wait in a queue to join. It is bearable up to 1min at most. But some games put we in a waiting queue that varies from 5 to 30mins and that is totally absurd…
Warmup waiting
They dont even provide a good warmup room to help we stand waiting for the real match, the warmup (if it exists at all) are really bad, meaningless, challenge less, and we get nothing from it, we could get something from warmup rooms, why not?
We could gather something to help on the real match, we could even score a few points like a pre battle!
Bots fillup
Stop trying to fake we are playing against players, we are not that stupid, we know when we are playing against a bot. And you make it very clear when we can’t spectate them to confirm our suspicions!
So, if you are going to allow bots, why also force us into a waiting queue? To try to put a few players on the room?
Just start the damn room and let others join mid-game, it could be optional and place some disadvantage on the mid joiners. Invent something! But don’t put us in long waiting queues!
Specific games
I will comment about a few games later on how they end up destroying it by not understanding the core problem: do not make we wait!
But I am quite sure you have had to deal with these problems before too.
Btw, having many ongoing matches, and letting players join mid-match, would place them on the correct balanced match.
No need to break the balance, unless the player wants to not lose time on queue.
While a low rank player could chose higher rank matches, he would get a warning saying “that match is not suited for you, continue anyway?”
A higher skilled player would not be able to pester newbies, unless you implement a higher tier debuff.
So highly skilled players could be limited to low quality guns, movement hindering, low healing items, so then it would be a challenge for them VS newcomers that can use top quality equipment for that tier.
And to finalise, high tier players could request rooms that do not allow low tier players, even if that means higher matching balance waiting times, but then he could stop the matchmaking anytime and request a quick match if he gets too bored.
I mean, you are forcing on us pseudo balanced matches, even when we do NOT want it…