Australia - Lower number of players to start or allow AI with XP on portal
Please lower number of players to start a server or allow AI with XP - Australia
In Australia we can't even start regular Conquest mode any more for All Out Warfare. This is from 8pm onwards at least, the times I have tested by waiting in queue for extended periods. The server won't start with less than 32 players.
The only servers up and running will be for the mode of the week, on the far left.
In Australia, I have waited 45 minutes in queue for regular Conquest. The highest we got to was 12, for about a minute. Overall I could see towards 30 unique players at least hopped on and off, but nobody was willing to wait more than 5 minutes. This means even more players were just not bothering because they didn't think it would work. (And when regular games do happen, people don't realize that they can just auto queue after a match ends - this should be signalled better).
Please, lower player count to start and just let us play with bots until people join. Or let us muck about on an empty server like in old Battlefields. That way people have something to do and won't complain as much about how they have limited game time and can't sit around waiting.
Please, tell management they don't need to kill your own game like this. Tell them that nobody will buy cosmetics or battle passes if they can't play the game, and that plenty of people buy cosmetics when they are just playing against AI - Oblivion Horse Armor proved it, they should know about that at least.
You could just enable normal mastery progression / weekly challenges / ribbons / battlepass progress in Portal servers when AI is enabled, if the AI is set to normal damage and health etc. Let us have FUN with your game. Let us play it, for heavens sake.
What do you need from us to pressure your higher ups to let you make the choices that you know are necessary for this game to thrive? What do you need your player base to show you for your managers to understand that their choices are forcing us towards other games? I'm begging here.
There is nothing else that scratches the Battlefield itch, but now we're at a point where I have to seriously consider that other game, just because management choices here WON'T LET US PLAY THE GAME. With some of the changes done and more coming I can see that the current devs are putting love into this game, but they're clearly not getting enough support.
Don't let them do this to your game, devs. There's got to be something that can be done to change the minds of those making these decisions.
Please.
