Matchmaking

Let me start by saying I absolutely love this game, the look and the mechanics of the game play. 
yeah I could use this opportunity to moan about distance kills using shotguns or how many RPG’s it takes to destroy a tank V’s landmines but that’s getting off topic.

My biggest gripe is the matchmaking, NEVER has a battlefield been soo bad!   Me and three friends just wanna stay in a party and play together, yes we may have a filter on so we only want to play certain maps or modes but surely that’s what a filter is used for.

We spend most of our experience sat waiting for lobbies to fill up (more often than not with Bots, 5 minutes later) which is a drag. All we wanna do is play.  This is turning out to be a game killer and my friends are looks elsewhere for their gaming needs and by the looks of how many players Battlefield has left at any one time, they are not alone! 
Please try to fix this for us and save a once groundbreaking game.