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.
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
