They had this in APB. You had Enforcers and Criminals, and at game launch Criminals could be matched against other Criminals or Enforcers, while Enforcers could only be matched against Criminals. Results? Me and my Enforcer friends would cruise around town for 2 hours at a time, waiting to finally be queued for a mission. The more numerous Criminals had queues of a few minutes, max. So yeah, why don't we match Space Marines against each other, lower their queue times, raise everyone else's? Because, you know, Space Marines obviously can't help fix the problem themselves by just stepping out of their comfort zone every so often, broaden their horizon, and play a different faction? I'm a huge Dark Eldar fan, so I mainly play Eldar, but I also have an Ork character. Variety is the spice of life. "Muh Speshmahreens!", ok, whatever.
So I gota say so far the only arguments I have seen against this is it is not lore friendly and my race had this problem or I think this will make my que longer. On the note of it being unlore friendly that is largely irrelevant as this game dose not even come close to the lore ATM. Also LSM do fight each other sometimes their is numerous examples in the lore of LSM vs LSM their is the Minotaur and ultramarine's fighting each. Dark Angels Space wolfs fight each other and space wolfs vs gray knights are some of the more memorable ones. On the note of having a longer que time for your own factions I fail to see why the minority should be such a higher priority then the majority of players.
Because it's a problem of the "majority"'s creation, perhaps? Also, not executing a change that might gut three factions is not a question of giving the "minority" "higher priority". Changing nothing does not give priority to anyone. You're essentially asking for your faction to be given preferential treatment because that's the one you play. That is a matter of priority. Asking for nobody to be given such treatment and to just let supply and demand work things out is not a priority request. Imagine if your politicians suggested this. "Oh, this law would benefit 60% of the people at the expense of 40%? Well, let's do it straight away then, majority is the majority after all!" I suppose we should follow this line of reasoning across all of Warhammer 40k. Why release anymore rules or models for non-Space Marines? They're all minorities, let's not prioritize them over the Space Marine master race, come on, we can't do that! if a decision is good for Space Marines, just do it. Doesn't even matter how it affects those damn minorities. (Got to say, it's always been a meme that Space Marine players will drop any other part of the lore/franchise so long as they get more notes to their already over-represented melody, but to have one actually come right out and confirm the meme [at least in his personal case, no general statement about all of you here], is staggering.)
Here's a shocker, how about people quit playing SM. Common sense would dictate, if x faction has high ass queue time more than likely others won't.
MFW Marines are bitching about the queue system but they'll never have to play in a game that starts 14 vs 6
How is it our problem no one wants to play as Eldar and Orks unless they have OPAF stuff and Chaos has just always lagged in popularity compared to LSM when they are remotely balanced. I mean sure you can just say this is all LSM's fault for asking for you to get a nerf or you could accept that even during the best of times for the other races LSM had more players then everyone else put together. and the campaign has pushed it to the point LSM have unreasonably long que times witch will kill the LSM pop as the simply quit playing the game all together.
How about this: Premades can play LSM vs LSM but wont get points, xp and so on. Oh wait... no easy xp farming this way. My bad. Hell if you want shorter wait times play another faction, broaden your horizon.
Why would I play a diffrent faction when littarly none of the stuff from playing can go to my main and I hate how everyone else looks?
I get that you feel entitled that this game should revolve around you and your chosen faction but maybe you missunderstand the whole purpose of the single faction campaigns. The game has exactly the issue which you see highlighted during the current campaign. 40%+ of the current playerbase stick to 1 faction and have no incentive to move on or to try something else. This leads to a very unhealthy population situation. Basically every game has to spawned vs. LSM and if the population meta shifts even further then you will have waiting times on LSM cause they can't find matches. In addition to that it also creates an administrative/development issue for bE. With CSM sharing many basemodels they are continously forced to dedicate their cosmetic effords to the "marines" which are 70-80% of the playerbase. In the longrun this is not sustainable because sooner or later ork and eldar players will leave cause they are fed up with the neglect. A situation with an even spread were much better because satisfiying 50% of the playerbase every second month is much better then splitting time 80/20. The devs told us during their streams that alot of the LSM population has just 1 faction covered and often 2-3 open slots. They were the target group of the campaigns. The single faction campaigns were an attempt to mix up the population distribution. LSM got their campaign not because anyone hopes that you are even more attractive to new players or that more players who had just 1 eldar or 1 ork char stick to LSM now, but because bE felt that neglecting 40%+ of their playerbase and refusing them the free RTC / cosmetics everyone else got was not a smart move. You got your campaign cause everyone else has one. Be happy that you got this unneccessary (for the gamehealth) campaign at all. Other games like WoW add no free bonus packs for DD's in dungeon queques as consolation prices. To complain that bE actually tries to promote the health of the game for the future and that you might have to take one for the team seems very ungreatfull. Afterall the other 50% of the community take one for the team the whole time when their assets get flipped or chanceled, their cosmetics get delayed, their mods are missing or they are forced to play 90%+ of the time vs LSM.
You also ugly as fuck in addition - arrogant and selfish. Im only laugh about your queue cries. As i said - "LSM majority oriented policy" of bE hitted you in the balls. May be one day bE will realise that they cant feed only LSM kids and they also need to SPEND a lot of attention to the rest factions. Not only CSM clones, but also orks and eldar. We dont need SM vs CSM bolterporn.