Problem with this change is now if someone leaves you are permanently down a player. This will encourage the team that is down a member to leave because the match is ruined at that point unless you are cool with having a bot which might really suck depending on the class and bot level. Hard enough to get a game in the first place now we can very easily have our games ruined and the leaver gets no penalty.
I don't see the intended change being beneficial enough to be worth the problem that has been created. I have been playing nonstop and I don't have a big enough issue with joining late games to feel this was needed. The big change that we should be focusing on is now that annoyingly long matchmaking to find a decent game that isn't all region/all skill, go ahead and double that wait. We need to take steps towards making multiplayer more convenient, faster and less frustrating, not the other way around.
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