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Thanks for the clarification, feel like this wasn't communicated that great IMO.
Personally I would just consolidate the 8v8 modes in a 'mixed infantry mode' playlist, and keep individual conq, escaltion, brkthrough, rush and obliteration servers. tdm, dom and koth all have simmilar enough moment-moment gameplay and engagement ramges that I usually just had all 3 on in custom search. Only having two 8v8 modes available at one time lowers the variety of the cqb gameplay and makes me less want to play cqb modes personally.
I do agree that the waiting times for 8v8 modes could be a bit ridiculous and I'm glad it's being changed, but persistent servers/server browser at launch and/or console-only crossplay would have fixed the long mm times and meant that modes didn't need to be removed.
I'm assuming squad deathmatch is also just gone now?