Battlegrounds utterly messed up?

Depperoniak

I tried the new battlegrounds. Queued for 4vs4 solo, got Crazy King. We had one person too few in our team, so the game made us wait 5 minutes. Meanwhile, someone left and another player replaced them, but at t- 10s the game says "Not enough players, Battlegrounds will close in 10 seconds."
I queued again, got into another Crazy King game with the exact same situation, only 3 minutes in. So that means two of the same games were waiting for 1 extra player for 5 minutes, just to close off, at the same time.
Next I get a Deathmatch. So yeah, seems like you get to play 3 games, but when the 1st one was over, I return to Eastmarch with, for some reason, a deserter's penalty of 15 minutes. ?!?!
What happened? How did this get through the PTS and get the green lit?

huskandhunger

so you received a penalty but didn't leave the match?

Chilly-McFreeze

„Kicked for inactivity“

chessalavakia_ESO

huskandhunger wrote: »

so you received a penalty but didn't leave the match?

Yeah, if you lose your lives and someone else just sits up at the top you can get kicked for not being active.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/667619/update-44-known-issues-list

Battleground Spectators Removed For Inactivity

We have seen a few reports of players being removed for inactivity when spectating in Battlegrounds matches.
[Status] The issue has been identified and targeting an fix for the next incremental patch.

Depperoniak wrote: »

I tried the new battlegrounds. Queued for 4vs4 solo, got Crazy King. We had one person too few in our team, so the game made us wait 5 minutes. Meanwhile, someone left and another player replaced them, but at t- 10s the game says "Not enough players, Battlegrounds will close in 10 seconds."
I queued again, got into another Crazy King game with the exact same situation, only 3 minutes in. So that means two of the same games were waiting for 1 extra player for 5 minutes, just to close off, at the same time.
Next I get a Deathmatch. So yeah, seems like you get to play 3 games, but when the 1st one was over, I return to Eastmarch with, for some reason, a deserter's penalty of 15 minutes. ?!?!
What happened? How did this get through the PTS and get the green lit?

The PTS has a relatively limited audience of players that are generally cooperative. This makes it so that some bugs don't actually occur with much frequency and don't necessarily get reported.

If I recall correctly, the PTS at least on the first week would actually start the matches when short a player so the short a player bug wouldn't necessarily trigger.

The PTS population was also low enough that if it did trigger people would assume it was a population issue not an matchmaking issue.