Did anyone at DICE actually test Conquest matchmaking in 2025?

Weapon and specialist progression in Battlefield 2042 is fine up to Tier 3 because it can be done against bots.
After that, you are forced into PvP matchmaking.

The problem is that matchmaking barely works anymore.
Not only Conquest, but even Breakthrough often fails to start. You wait for a long time, a few players join, then leave, and the lobby dies again.

It genuinely feels like the minimum player requirement is being kept artificially high to reduce server usage in an already low-population game.

Why can’t matches start with as few as two players, the same way bot matches work?
People who don’t want to wait would actually get into games faster, and those who stay would at least be able to play instead of staring at a matchmaking screen.

At this point, preventing people from playing the game they already own feels more damaging than any balance concern.

I really hope this isn’t another case of quietly pulling the plug on a dying player base.
It may already be late — but actively restricting matchmaking is not how you keep what little life this game still has.