Make them two factions. If we go back to regular campaigns for all four factions after the Eldar marketing campaign is done, then approach faction campaigns as such. Two factions get double the rewards for completing their campaign while the other two get regular campaigns. For example; Belial:; Hello space marines, I suck but you know what sucks more than me? Eldar. Eldar suck a lot, so go kill them this week! Eldar warlord whose name I forget yet still have more respect for than Belial: My kin, the mon'keigh believe this planet theirs, foolish but take no pity on these mayflies. The imperium has doubled their efforts to take that which was once our, so within each of you a storm must awaken! Dash their hopes against the rocks of our fury and teach the fledgling Imperium that even now the the Eldar are a force they cannot resist. So there you have space marines vs eldar for a week, while chaos and orks get regular campaigns. Next week orks vs chaos, then anyone against anyone they haven't faced. Maybe orks vs eldar. That way the queue times won't be this disastrous again. @NoahWard @Oveur sorry guys, but these long queues were the inevitable outcome of incentivizing people to play the most populous faction without giving others a reason to play the other three. I hope we get more theme campaigns but not like this. Those new campaign objectives you mentioned would be nice to see when they get added in too.
Or we could fix the matchmaker to have I dunno, fair matches? That way when a faction is outnumbered it doesn't lose by default, which results in less people playing and less enemies for the high population faction. Crazy I know.
The idea is to have a themed campaign but give people a reason to play the other factions. If there's a campaign on one faction people are gonna be playing that faction. The numbers show it. Forcing people to sit around longer won't solve anything. Give people more options to devote themselves to.
It actually does. But it requires a bit of analyzing. You'd think allowing the High Pop faction to outnumber the Low pop faction on a match means more HP players to play and lesser queue times, right? Except this only works for the first few matches. Eventually, the low pop faction gets fed up with losing over and over simply because the MM arranges them to lose to "Make room for more High-pop players". Some will leave mid-match upon seeing that 15 vs 9 start, and likely won't queue again because "It's that time of the day where we are grossly outnumbered". I know that a lot of Eldar/Ork players outright stopped playing during the LSM campaign because the unfair match problem was completly out of hand, resulting in even less enemies, less matches, and longer queue times for LSM. It's not rocket science.
Worse, some of those Low Pop players migrate over the High Pop faction, aggravating the issue even further. Some players will gladly take 20+ Queue times if it ensures they're not going to be the MM's punching bag. Eventually the game will devolve in a simple choice: Do you get a fast queue on an automatically lost fight, or a long queue on a automatic win devoid of challenge?
Not really an automatic win. I've lost quite a few games during this campaign. Not as many as usual for LSM, but the queue times make it feel a lot worse than usual.
I dunno who so many people are up in arms about the single campaigns, they are designed as an incentive for people to try a new faction. It helps spread out the pop a little once it all done as people got to experience new factions. That is the goal of these campaigns and it is working great....................All we have to do is wait it out and the ensuing campaigns will be back to normal until they come back for another round. Learn to have patience like Tzeentch and your path will be enlightened!
The campaigns did get people playing new factions. the problem is that the wait times are staggering, and attempting to queue with warparties of 5+ means over an hour of waiting in some cases. I agree that they got people to try new things, but this also means countless people are sitting around waiting doing nothing.
