Great job ignoring the problem, Quanrian, just like you do in the Discord chat.

 The invitation system, to me, just seems like a way for whoever is in charge to try and force people to trick other people into playing the game. Make characters ridiculously expensive, wait for people to complain, add 'invitations' that'll help them make slightly more gold to expand the playerbase instead of not making the character cost dozens of hours of time or the price of a full game. You've made it clear that you don't care about the crazy amount of grinding since you seem to have a group that's on 24/7 and also infinite invitations to use apparently, but other players don't. For them, the grind is a serious problem (which again, you seem to blame the player for), and a terrible issue for an otherwise amazing game.

I can't do this anymore I've been a queue with a friend for a hour now and no one is joining. How does anybody expect to play this game if you can't even start a mission.  I would recommend this to other people cause from what I played it's really fun but how can I recommend something when you can't even play it. And I'm not playing single player I enjoy this game with friends.

Just do what someone else is the forum once told me. Just buy another copy of the game, that'll somehow solve your problem...

For real though, I sympathize. I'm in the same boat here. I love the game. It's super fun to play, and I'd love to recommend it more. I recommended it to a friend once, and after spending thirty minutes in a queue, only to join a game where someone repeatedly threw themselves off a cliff in order to force a quick failure and collect a reward, they (for some crazy reason) deleted the game. 

I guess that "automatic system" isn't doing a good job, considering how often it is I see this type of behavior in game. If only there were a system in place for getting rewards based on performance, rather than getting a reward for simply existing on the winning (or losing, for those who purposely waste lives) team.

Sorry if this has been asked somewhere else, and I just missed it, but I've got a question. Did she say the new characters would be arriving 'in the coming month' or 'in the coming months'?

I can at least admit that with the higher bump in players, it no longer takes nearly thirty minutes to find matches like it used to, which helps out with the higher gold rates. Unfortunately, for people like me who have small friends lists (since I only add people I know personally, or have played a ton with) the invitation system is basically useless. Everyone I know either doesn't want to play the game, played it and hated it since it was/is an unfair grind with crazy wait times with a clear incentive to try and force you to pay more real money,  or already owns both campaigns.

Just a note, Shiro, your argument is terrible. It might just be a peeve of mine, since I hate that argument IRL as well, but I feel that "New people shouldn't complain because older people had it worse" (people should always complain if they see a problem, even if the problem isn't as bad as it used to be) is meaningless, especially if the system is still bad.  And again, it's a coop game. Talking down about someone's time to beat a mission means nothing when it's all cooperative. You could be the best player in existence, but that doesn't mean a darn thing if the rest of your team doesn't know how to play. I've spent exorbitant amounts of times on missions because my team kept dying, and I stubbornly just ran around surviving until they were revived.

Sounds more to me like you're upset that your "advice" didn't work, and that your words didn't somehow make me ignore the game's glaring issues. I didn't ignore your suggestions, I pointed out how those suggestions either were wrong, wouldn't work, or shouldn't need to be done in the first place, but it seems that you've decided that ignoring people who don't agree with you is the proper response. Step down from that high-horse of yours, and you might see things a bit differently. Quite a few people would like a chance to play the game privately. As Boiler suggested, I'd totally take a reward reduction, since I'm pretty sure that I'd make more gold that way. In the time I could spend waiting for a mission, I could beat the same mission once or twice.

Also, there's no need to try and pretend you didn't use 'buy another copy' as advice, because that was one of your first suggestions. Your suggestions were to: Recruit more people,  trawl the forums for other members, or "The only other solution would be to play the game on a different platform or get the EU version of the client and put up with more latency.", exactly as you said it. Which literally means buy another copy, but on a different system.

Argentil, even ten minutes is far too long to wait for a mission that will, at best, take fifteen to twenty minutes to beat. I'm a US PS4 player, but peak times clearly aren't the issue, as I learned yesterday. I tried off and on all day, as I was off of work, and only once did I manage to queue up for a mission in under fifteen minutes. That's abysmal, and could be remedied with a private mode.

 You say I should play on another platform? That's ridiculous. I already regret buying the season pass (which is a first for me), and you want me to buy the game again? No thank you. And I shouldn't have to go trawling through forums, desperately seeking more people to play with. There's no incentive to recruit more people, but what there is incentive do to is just not waste my time on the game at all.

Basically, it's as Soul Devour said. The developers want it to be 4V1 at all times...even to the detriment of the player-base. Making a private mode, maybe upping the rewards a bit, not slooooowly releasing characters in an attempt to keep people interested (we all saw the new characters in the trailer, let's not pretend that they couldn't have released them at the same time as the new campaign), and not making skins that cost literally the price of a full game would be a far better method of keeping things going than you trying to convince me to buy the game (which I already slightly regret buying) a second time.