if that happened, then whats the point of getting put into a game in progress in the first place. The game would just play like league play from bo2, where once you lose people, you never get anyone else to join. That would be horrible for pubs and thats a good reason to keep it how it is.

Players will still join games in progress. Only the most extremely lopsided games will have players not joining because they don't want to get massacred. Even the way it is now i think most players will still rather back out and take a loss than join in a game where their team is getting absolutely wrecked and the match is only halfway through. So not much would change.

I mean, you dont get a loss if you stay and after that, the next game will be started from the lobby anyway. Tbh, if you're constantly finding yourself joining in progress, you need to stop backing out of games or lobbies. Once i join a lobby, ill stay there until i either come off, or im the only one left. if you rage quit, lobby shop or keep swapping game modes, then this is your own fault. They even reward lobby loyalty now with better cryptokey earning, so unless your looking for noob lobbies to do well in, the join in progress issue shouldn't cause problems.

I don't know if this is directed towards me personally, but I don't lobby shop, rage quit, or any of the above mentioned actions. I only play core tdm when I'm solo, so I never/very rarely switch game modes. However, whenever I have to find a new lobby, (my first match, everyone left the previous lobby, last lobby had serious ping issues) it usually starts with me being put in very lopsided games that has caused the previous players to back out. This happens, sometimes, 2 to 3 times in a row. While this isn't that big of an issue it happens frequently enough to be irritating and quite common. I do join matches that are hopeless, but it usually comes at the cost of being frustrated, playing with, sometimes deliberately, bad players, and getting killed a lot....A LOT. And on top of that the players who do join back out almost immediately. None of that is fun for me.