Just don't see the player base being big enough to fill all the portal servers with this minimum human requirement, REDSEC spreading it out more, this arbitrary number leaves out probably of majority of people that would likely play portal with friends. It's just hard to believe that they didn't have a solution waiting in the wings, with all that they knew happened with 2042. The funny thing there seems to be more bot farming now in post patch, they basically threw out the player base that wanted to play Portal legitimately, but didn't fix the problem.