When I first learned that automatch might not get me a game even if there are custom game requests waiting that would perfectly match my automatch request, I was really confused.
I was expecting the server to do everything to give me a game quickly. Particularly when I’m using a generic automatch request that is very open to the settings of the game.
My expectation would be that every match request (auto and custom) is kind of a query with certain constraints. Some queries being more and some less restrictive. But as soon as two queries match sufficiently well, a game would be created.
I still can’t wrap my mind around the fact that the server doesn’t do that.
Isn’t it one of the key features of a game server to bring people together to a game as quickly as possible, if the parameters of the game would work for both of them?