[QUOTE=tokamak;501624]Thanks.
TGG doesn’t allow new players into running matches as far as I know. That’s why they punish the people who leave so severely. This means that the matchfinding takes a bit longer and yeah, it requires a lot more commitment from a player. But hey, F2Pers really are into that sort of thing.
I really like these ‘locked’ matches. There’s nothing competitive about a match where people get to drop in and out of the game. The victory and losses aren’t your and they’re not even you’re team’s because the people playing are in constant flux.
WoW arena, Starcraft, just about any MOBA, World of Tanks, they’re all locking their games to make ladders a meaningful thing. And now finally there’s a shooter, an actual F2P shooter that’s trying out the same.[/QUOTE]
TGG? You mean TCP… It isn’t tom glancy, it is tom clancy… lol. And IIRC the old TC game was ghost, now it is phantom 
It does have drop in play though. It dropped me into several games about half over today. Also after the game crashed on me right after I got the completion streak going, I was a bit annoyed.
WoW arena is organized teams… can’t drop in because ranking and everything is based on your team standing. SC… how could you. You simply couldn’t make that game drop in. No idea about WOT. MOBAs you generally can’t do it because you have leveling and gold mechanics.
I don’t think this is a good idea for a shooter because if you cannot get a replacement, people will just leave once it gets lopsided and it will just steam roll into defeat every time which is why I imagine they chose to allow drop in for TCP.
For ranked ladders, definitely you cannot have drop in imo. Or it would have to be done in a pretty careful manner. They should have a reconnect to match option if you DC as well.
