Matchmaking still sucks in every single way. It was supposed to fix imbalance? NO -- more ridiculously lopsided battles than ever. Speed into the game? NO -- the waits are actually getting longer, and not infrequently 3+ minutes, and yesterday one was over 15 minutes when I came back to it. Still puts me in at the end of games. Still puts me in games I don't want to be in. There are fewer maps than ever. People still bail on the horribly imbalanced matches -- including me, which I never used to do. about one third of the time, when I FINALLY get into a game, I'm like "what the hell is this?" Either its over, it doesn't suit my needs, or its laughably imbalanced. I hate matchmaking. Sad thing is everyone still hates matchmaking, but you really don't care. But i'm never spending another dime on this game.

Just taking a few minutes while I wait to join an RGB match (just restarted after ELEVEN MINUTES waiting) to reiterate just how much I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE the matchmaking function. My playing has diminished considerably since it began, and I forsee that declining to zero very soon with updates like this coming along. Also, if you take away Guido Fawkes and Little Willie (I think) --- NO ONE LIKES MATCHMAKING!!!!!!!!!! REMOVE IT ASAP!!! Since I'm here on my THIRD go-ground to try and log in and get in a game (it's now been 25 minutes I've been trying to get into an RGB match to finish a mission) I just thought I'd take the opportunity to mention that I absolutely HATE matchmaking.

I saw the survey, and I responded to it with a few of my accounts -- but it was a very poorly done survey and with the choices afforded I couldn't really say what I thought about it. So did I like it? Yes, it was fun. Did I think it should become a permanent part of the game? No, absolutely not. But the survey didn't give any leeway. I didn't want to say I hated it, but it never asked "do you think this should be made a permanent part of the game?" It basically have "really like, somewhat like, didn't like, hated it" sort of options. So if everyone (like me) thought it was kind of fun as a special limited thing, you may have gotten the wrong impression. I certainly know it didn't give me the opportunity to be clear about what I really thought -- so you probably included a few of my accounts saying "liked" or "somewhat liked" and interpreted it as something I did not mean. I DO think OD is fun, but a little problematic as a permanent feature because it so distorts the game.

The problem with your point #1 is that when I have to have crystals, I look to join the ALREADY WINNING TEAM -- especially when the payout to even good players on the losing team is abysmal. This despite that my preference, for fun, is to join a losing team and turn it around. If I need exp, then I usually join the losing team. So making missions all and only crystal based could have the opposite effect of making battles more even, by incentivizing only playing on the winning side.

Me no likey. Not at all.