People have been asking for this for years and it’s still never been addressed. Games should not start until the max capacity has been filled.
We had a game start 7v10 and got steam rolled. 1 person started joining every few minutes until finally filled but then it was a chain reaction of people just /afking out.
It’s like why does lfr and dungeon ques have to wait for confirmation from everyone, but ours dont.
usually, but not always, it’s from groups trying to coordinate joining the same match in the sense of playing as a premade. other times, it’s usually dps that queued long ago and went afk and aren’t sitting there to click when it finally pops (god knows this always happens when you go pee or grab a fricken drink…)
Take note of which maps these are. I suspect it could be premades dodging the garbage maps such as dwg or ss. They send 1 guy in and if it is one of these the others dont join and the guy who went in logs out onto another alt. Rinse.
On a larger scale something similar was going on in the Classic AV. Large groups of premades kept refusing queues until they could get 30ish into the same game leaving 5-10 guys to start each match until there were 20 open games unfilled. This cherry picking led to the system they have and cry about now.