Then you've heard wrong; on the Xbox One, in the middle of literally any day, even a week day, I never have to wait long for a match. In fact some times while I'm queued up I have just enough time to get downstairs, make myself a drink, and hop back upstairs before voting on a map starts. If I want to use the bathroom, I have to back out of matchmaking entirely. The console versions of the game are doing fine for now, it's PC where the game is having more of an issue since Blizzard owns the PC crowd. Now it is summer time, so things may change once school starts back up for both college and K-12 alike, but for now, I have no problems finding matches. Well, had. I no longer own it as of today.RaikuFA said:
The biggest problem this game has is the admittedly smaller community itself. Oh sure, they're not 4chan or anything close to it, but they incessantly whine about any little tweak made. I understand that is a pretty common thing for most big multiplayer games, especially games that require a lot of balancing, but the kind of whining I have seen in the Battleborn forums is like watching a five year-old complain about food. Since launch people had complained about matchmaking not appropriate matching player skill, so Gearbox changed things up a bit to gather data, and I don't think I've seen more complaining on the forums or heard more in-game than when they did that. The biggest complaint they had was being offered an attempt at a solution, and the community whined as a result. OP characters getting balanced out? People whine. OP gear getting leveled out? People whine. Every Battle Report I read through was met with some optimism, but generally, it was filled far more with pessimism from the 'loyal fans' who threaten every update Gearbox put out with dwindling numbers taken only from Steam to remind them that they are slowly losing players, as if Gearbox themselves didn't know that.
Recently after a bout of absence from the game due to work reasons, I came back to find the Matchmaking had been put back the way it had been, because fuck progress and change. Given my experience with the game, I personally don't think Overwatch had as much to do with the game's failing as everyone gives it credit for; Gearbox's inability to run a long-lasting competitive game and always giving in to the pressure of the vocal minority of their community means that this game could have come out a year before Overwatch and still would have ended up where it is now in just a few months. I won't deny Overwatch played a factor, I just think their efforts would have been better focused on getting Borderlands 3 out there. My friends wouldn't even touch Battleborn but it's not because they were playing Overwatch instead.