Aussie here. Same problem. Most games after 2pm WA time are unplayable.
I wouldn’t mind waiting 5 minutes for a lagfree game but instead I have to go through 5 to 10 minutes of matchmaking and JIP where I have to quit because its unplayable.
Why the regional filter and so many other features were removed that were already in Reach boggles my mind. If H4 was built on Reach wouldn’t it be just as time consuming (or even less) to leave this feature in? Matchmaking was probably too confusing for this new gaming generation (CoD anyone?) so 343 had to cut it out.
Not only is it frustrating and and a waste of my time but the same goes for the Spartans in those games I had to leave. They shouldn’t have to put up with a latency handicapped player that leaves shortly after.
The icing on the cake are the quit bans received from leaving unplayable games.
And before someone says suck it up and play the laggy games how about you downgrade your net to dialup and see how it feels.
Most Xbox owners are in the US. You’re an Aussie, it’s you, case closed.
Just over half of Xbox sales were in the US. The rest were sold world wide. Not only Aussies are complaining about poor matchmaking. UK , Germany and even the US ( top 3 Xbox countries ) are complaining about it as well.
It is a feature that has been around for a while and a lot of other games have it too so there is no reason for it to be missing.
“Most Xbox owners are in the US. You’re an Aussie, it’s you, case closed.”
Just the kind of answer I was expecting.