Portal completely ruined with the new player count requirements

Also, all the meaningless changes, and you still can't add the Mini Scout to the weapons list in the builder tool so we can have a proper no-sniper server.

That just made me so unbelievably sad, you have no goddamn idea.

Why can't you let a good thing be good.

Here's a statistic for you: it took me 70 minutes to get even 10 people playing in the server, that's with people having something to do while they wait for the lobby to fill.

If they had to sit for 140 minutes in the waiting room to get to 20 players, they would just leave, and the game would never start.

Please reconsider everything you know about your game and how people play it.

This is all ego, 50 billion dollar company bossing around its customers because its about a game, like all thei customers are little kids. If a car brand or electronics brand would play with its customers like this, there would be law suits all over the place. 

Return the possibility to play solo against bots. Give us what we paid for!

Yes EA remove 20 players requirement, i want to play 4vs4 conquest with friends

Also, at this point alongside the reversion of the changes, I would like to hear what sort of justification you had for tampering with the player count requirements in Portal.

Is it just the mini scout or all the battlepass weapons.

Because to me it stinks like they don't want people to not be able to use stuff they potentially paid money to unlock.

Well, you can still restrict the use of rifles by class-locking weapons and disabling the Recon class. It just, seems too drastic to me.

portal needs to return to original form , the devs have their sales , why are they pandering to a small vocal minority that are butt hurt because others sometimes want to just relax and play more relaxed matches against bots and the few odd players that might join their server.

when game released i created a breakthrough server and to my suprise it always had players on it , never full up with human players but it was a lot of fun , as you have said no one is going to sit and wait for 1-2 hours to fill up a server with enough human players with bot backfills before the match starts

devs need to remove the minimum player count and return portal to what it was..so that we can play with our small groups of friends 

EA does not need to just remove the 20 players to start minimum but also remove the 12 bot cap they put in place. My buddy and I got excited yesterday when we found out the bots were back in the portal. Then we saw the 20 player minimum. No play, Just more disappointment. Regardless, only 12 bots would spawn in and with the two of us in a squad on one side, it did not even balance the teams. Eight on our side, six on the other.

No effort was expended in reenabling bots in the portal. Lazy attempt.