Alex Klontzas

For clarity: THE PROBLEM: GMs queue up at the same time and are placed into DIFFERENT diamond/plat games, rather than being placed into the same game. NOT THE PROBLEM: The system fails to find them after 10 minutes instead of 15 minutes.

This is being addressed as part of the Ranked Matchmaking Improvements section in the blog.

In the blog it looks like the dev team still thinks the issue is that the system isn't waiting long enough to fill the game. The objective of my and everyone else's posts is to say that the system is being given easy inputs (10 GMs queue within 1 min) and still fails.

It isn't as binary as that I'm afraid, and your wait time as an individual isn't the only thing being factored in when making a game. The longer wait time referenced in the blog is to address this.

My wait time as an individual also isn't the only thing I'm look at - most GMs look at streams / their buddy list to try and figure out when the queues will be hot (in fact everyone looks at this to bypass the "hidden names" change).

The wait time increase will fix some edge cases, sure, but not the main issue - which I think is proper normalizing. For instance, the system should use "what % of players are between x and y" instead of "how many points are between x and y" when deciding a suitable match.

I've already told you that what you're referring to is part of the things being address, not sure what else you want me to say :)

Just to be clear, the fix isn't simply saying "increase queue time". The increased queue time will come as a RESULT of the changes being made to ensure quality games are being made. Does that address your concern?