Sweet, but what about a resign bottom? an option to choose if you only wanna play 3 vs 3 on the pantheon? and a way to see stats ingame? those kind of things would be sweet....but one can only wish.

that's what's so amazing about this concept.  if you don't want to schedule a game, you don't need to use it.  brilliant!

I hope you guys are listening to your customers, I haven't heard much people request scheduled gaming - I have heard many people request joining as a team (at any random time with random friends they choose). This is the impression that I get from most people anyhow (could be wrong)

I really hope you put more effort into the features that the majority of the customers want and don't waste time on misdirection.

Yeah I don't really see myself using this that much. Something I'd really like is a team matchmaking system. Like same as skirmish matchmaking except you can team with people on your friend list.

Yah same here, i would rather have a system that matches players according to rank like supcom. In all forms of the game (including custom) be able to see someones rank next to their name, and when you hover over their name, the ability to see how often they drop ect.

I agree with this. People will have some long list of friends (people who are nice in game, who have good ping with you, friends in real life, etc). All the game needs now is some form of matchmaking with your friends and such.

Or better, implement some kind of skill point system (rank) and team up people who are at the same skill level with you (something like in Quake Live). Like someone suggested, you can add a popup for each player, so i can see his rank and his nr. of in-game quits (for spotting rage quiters).

Or make a system so a good team can still play together, after the match has ended, if they want to. Or two teams, in a match. Introduce a vote system to restart the match or play another game with the same teams. You know how hard is to find some good balanced teams (people with skills and good team work)...

Scheduled gaming i think it's not a feature more important than the ones i've talked about above. Many people will not use it, or will not show up in a timely manner, ruining the game for everybody.

I've said it before (like many others), i not so exited about the Clan Wars dlc. There are many other things needed to be done before that, more important ones. Scheduled games and ban lists will only fragment the already fragmented player community. Who will invite a "noob" (new player)? Don't you think that many "pros" will just ban players who they consider to be noobs?

This doesn't really add any additional functionality (except for the ban list). I can already try to schedule a game in the future without this system, so I don't see why resources should be spent developing this. Especially since there are many other much more valuable/desired connectivity features (team-joining Pantheon games, pre-mades vs. pre-mades, ranked matchmaking...).

Thank you for letting us know that this is being considered. I'm sure our feedback will play a big role in future development.

I have to agree with many of the other posters and have to ask the design team, why? 

Why impliment this feature? Who is your target audience for this feature?  What percentage of users do you think will use this?

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I think other match making features allowing a team to be formed up prior and a system similar to Microsoft's True Skill to match up your team with another team of equal skill (and good connection) has a greater desiger/need.

Sure right now if I go online I'm presented with only being able to play games with the user base that is also online at the same time I am.  On one hand this may limit the quality of my opponents, but assuming the game is successful enough and the user base large enough, than this pool should be sufficient.

In short I don't see the value of this feature, what problem it really sloves and think the development team should use it's resources in other ways. 

-Jara

PS: (The only problem I think this solves is if I was say in the top 1% of the player base, say for example I was the best demigod player in the world and the game was having trouble finding a suitable match.  Then this system in theory could try to match me up with someone even if they're not available online at the moment.  But, given I'm not online and time zone diffrences finding a suitable time that is actually possible due to real life commitments could be an issue.  In the end, this feature does not really solve those issues)

PPS: I don't want to have game commitments or scheduled games, if I wanted that I'd play World of Warcraft and go raiding.

Offering an option to more adequately/easily play with friends and otherwise good sports is worthwhile. I support this.

I agree.  Seems a bit redundant.  Ie: 3v3 useast Experts only... or 4v4 EU Noobs only... or 2v2 OZ Just for fun!!

Why schedule a game if you can just make one with a description of what your looking for.. at any time?

If you could change a custom game slot to "Reserve for friend" it would be useful.  The problem with custom games at the moment is you get a bunch of randoms filling up the slots.  The ability to host a game, change a number of slots for friends only would solve this and might be a quick fix.

I guess it's more of an issue at the moment because connecting is still so flakey and people often have to rejoin etc.

No it does not already fulfill that purpose.

1. Custom games do not match you up with opponents, so you're left waiting for someone to join your game which is inefficient.
2. Custom games do not match you based on skill -- it's just who ever happens to join your game.
3. Custom games in the future will not reward favor (too easy to exploit AI).  You should be able to form teams and earn favor/Pantheon ranking.

I can orgainze my own friends to come play, it's called pick up a phone and call or shoot an email off.