So many posts on here clogging the sub about unfair matchmaking and as a newer player, it’s crazy to see. This game is niche and is constantly on sale and while it’s retaining and slowly growing, I’m already struggling to find matches within 5 minutes at certain times on US East and that has almost never been a problem for me in any other game.
But most people aren’t going to wait longer than 5 minutes, so if you make the current 6 stars wait 15+ to match with all players equal to their skill or just always instantly put them in dead lobbies, they *leave*.
Then the 5 stars become the new 6 stars, the 4 stars become the 5 stars and so on. And eventually, all my fellow 3 stars complaining about unfair matches would be looking at 20+ minute waits because of a dead game.
Edit: Since there seems to be a misunderstanding with my post: I’m not saying people are currently waiting longer than 5 minutes. I’m saying the posts complaining often mention they are willing to wait longer than 5 minutes if it meant fair matches and those statements gets ton of upvotes.