Players given option to decline arena games

[wrldtrvllr]

Today, I waited an extremely long time for an arena game table to fill. When a third player finally joined, the game did not start as it should have, but instead waited for this third player to accept or decline. I waited a couple of minutes for any activity, but there was none, so I cancelled the game start. It was annoying to have waited so long and then not to have got a game. Why would this player have been given the option to accept or decline? In arena games, that should not be possible.

[Strode]

I don't know, but if the third person couldn't bring themselves to just click "Accept" then they probably wouldn't be a reliable opponent for the full game.

[Jellby]

Are you sure the third player was actually given the opportunity to accept or not? Couldn't it be just some connectivity/network issues, and the system was waiting for the player's browser to send some data or something, rather than the human player to accept?

[wrldtrvllr]

It could be something like that. But I have myself had an arena game which offered me the chance to accept or decline. I don't recall the exact circumstances unfortunately - it was not recently and as far as I recall, has only happened to me once.

[ChiefPointThief]

I’ve seen this several times and wondered the same thing. I don’t think it is a connectivity thing because people join arena all the time and get booted for not being there when the game finally starts.