The new autofill feature may have immediate effect of decreasing queue times, but it will almost certainly ultimately increase time spent finding a viable game given that dodge rates when a player gets autofilled undoubtedly will increase. Thus, more lobbies and longer wait times to ultimately get into a game (despite the lower individual queue times).
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This is so true even now when they STILL haven't removed autofill. They seem to think it's doing good, while the quality of games effectively goes to complete waste. That's one thing, the other being that people get tired of having to deal with autofilled teammates or being autofilled themselves they literally instantly dodge as soon as they find out there has been autofill in the team. So with that dodging you actually get a longer wait time than before you had autofill. It may statistically differ a bit, maybe I exaggerated a bit. But even if a sliver of this is true that would make Autofill garbage, which it is. It's garbage for the game, it's a worthless desperate measure to fix something nobody even complained about, but now fucked everything. At least one autofill in a game means every game is shit and no fun for at least 1 person.
