Is there a way to turn this off?
It's gotten to the point where I mostly play vs AI at this point because I can't play a full game.
How it usually goes: join matchmaking for dominion, get like 3 or 4 matches where there's an error of some sort, eventually join the game to find my team has 1-2 players but almost always at least 1 bot. From there I get into the actual game and see the score is something like 800-50 with the other team already in the groove, has all their feats unlocked etc. A lot of the time when someone joins at this point they leave, I stay because it took me 15 minutes to get here I might as well actually get to play the game a little, despite the fact that usually it's hopeless to try to come back. After getting killed by a bunch of feats (I have no problem with those, just when I have no chance to unlock my own because the bot I replaced wasn't doing very well), the match ends and everyone leaves right away and I get kicked back to the multi-player menu.
Maybe it's just a personal issue that I have a hard time stepping into a game against people that are 3-4 minutes warmed up into it already but if there was an option where you could wait longer in matchmaking to guarantee joining a game at the start I'd do that 100% of the time. Or if you let the next game start with 4 people 2v2 with two bots that's be fine too but right now you're basically encouraging players to just join and leave until they find a game where everything is just the way they like it.