Hosting, playing alone, no one ever joins

It's because everyone is enjoying the amazing singleplayer.

I think it works on a queue system more than a match making system. As I guess it works there are two queues. One with running games and one with lobbies. So my best guess on what happens when a person hits quick find match (matching settings is assumed in all steps).
1. Find oldest (as in original lobby creation time) running game with slots open and decent host to you.
2. Find oldest lobby by the creation of the original lobby (which can be days old with rotating hosts) with decent host to you.
3. If no lobby with decent host is found, create new lobby with you as host.

So the problem with a fresh lobby is that it is last in the queue until a previously opened lobby dies and an even newer one is created. People leaving the older lobbies open up spots there pretty often, making new lobbies need to wait longer.

I could be wrong but it matches my experiences.

nahh I sat wit ha lobby open for 35 minutes waiting for someone to join it and nothing,

I quit hit search and drop into a lobby, host drops and I run 5 games without a problem the game creation system is just screwy and there will be something blocking it from appearing in the open listings unless you already have one going likely down to something really dumb like a glitch with corsair link or Logitech gaming software, I mean they already patched it once because of one of them whats the chances they only half did the job like usual ?

Port foward

FYI, this is listed as a known issue, at least we know it isn't intentional. Meanwhile they have some unhelpful 'workarounds'



Trouble finding players for your match? Try starting with a full group! ...

Yeah, this blows. I tried hosting a game, nobody joined. Literally nobody. Not even me:

Get a bachelors degree in IT and you should be able to host afterwards.

Well, one player solo queuing for a match and inviting won't work very well -- public matches seem to fill nearly instantaneously. So much so that I've been getting into the bad habit of joining for few seconds to see loadouts and exiting if I don't want to play with 3 level 1's on silver or gold!

I've had the same issue since day 1. The error is pretty embarrassing for a "co-op" game. It needs to be fixed, yesterday.

I only tried to host once and the same thing, matchmaking is so busy filling up almost full lobbies and people who start matches with less than full teams that the person just starting sits there on his/her has forever.

Okay, I've been having this issue (not finding people as a group of 2), and I think the problem comes from 2 overlapping issues:

1. ME3's matchmaking system was strange; it prioritized filling lobbies that were close to full rather than close to empty. In other words: A lobby with 3 players would have priority for finding the last player over a lobby with 1 or 2 people waiting for 3 or 2, respectively.

If ME:A's system is the same, that would account for some of the trouble playing as a pair.

2. While I was looking for answers, I saw on another board that someone thinks the a newly-created lobby will act as a private lobby - regardless of whether it's set to public - for roughly 10-15 minutes after creation. Why, I have no idea, but this fits with the experiences my girlfriend and I have been experiencing when we try to play. Make a game, wait for 15 minutes, and then all of a sudden people join. The good news is that after that, it seems to be set to public until you leave, even after playing a game, so it's no trouble finding players after that.

These things combined make it very frustrating to play as a duo. A single player can quick-match, a group of 3 has a priority for filling the lobby, and a group of 4 obviously has nothing to worry about. So it's only groups of 2 being affected

I really hope they do something to fix this soon, because we don't get a lot of time to play and spending 2 games' worth of time waiting for players to join is less than ideal...

I feel your pain! My brother and I will often play for a solid hour or two before my other brother can join us. I am not sure that 15 minute public acting as private rule is sound. We have played well over two hours and never gotten another player.  It seems really inconsistent.

What I wish is, we could give up hosting the game, and simply go into matchmaking as a pair, and get assigned to open lobbies with either 1 or 2 people.