Join game-in progress broke?

Games Other Halo
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Most of the time, the join game-in progress system works fine. If someone leaves, they get replaced. Or I replace someone who left a game(happens a painful amount of times).
But often, people who leave won’t get replaced. My team or the enemy team has to go the rest of the game at a disadvantage. And I’ve noticed its getting more common.
The other day I was playing Dominion and my entire team left at the start and I had to endure a whole game of being constantly spawn killed. Not one new person joined the game.
Is the system broke or is there sometimes nobody available to join?

2

population is nearly dead, or dying atleast. gee i wonder why???

3

343 lowered the window of time when someone can join in progress, so probably they were winning pretty badly (obviously) and the game time was already half over

4

> population is nearly dead, or dying atleast. gee i wonder why???

Not even close.

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> population is nearly dead, or dying atleast. gee i wonder why???

Disinformation. The population has been holding steady at #6 place in XBL Activity.

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> > population is nearly dead, or dying atleast. gee i wonder why???
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> Disinformation. The population has been holding steady at #6 place in XBL Activity.

Hasn’t the population increased since the weapon tuning? It seems like it did to me.

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It went up about a thousand or so, then dropped back to about the same levels. See:

http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/totalpopulation/all

and then individual days like:

http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/playlists/2013-05-04

http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/playlists/2013-05-28

http://www.halocharts.com/2012/chart/playlists/2013-06-04

It did basically nothing to the population, which is still in decline month over month.

Until they fix the host selection issues, add options to only play local players (no more playing games with people from around the world in a single match), add “Best Connection Only” (as in Reach) allow me to opt out of JIP and dial the Power weapons re-spawn rate down, I won’t play H4 WarGames anymore.

I’ve switched back to Reach multiplayer (supposedly 25,000+ people playing it online) on Sunday and had the best lag free games I have had in months compared to H4 War Games.

Given they are releasing H5 in around 12 months - I seriously doubt 343 will ever fix the multiplayer H4 issues.