I don’t typically experience long queue times, sure it happens on occasion and mainly on Meltdown, but isn’t a longer queue time better than playing 9/10 matches with red bar? There are a lot of Japanese playing this game, I’m infrequently matched with them and get green bar when I do but it’s not often enough, I’ve been putting up with constant red bar since beta and I’m pretty tired of it.
Anyway it’s not a bad thing, many games with region locking allow you to enable or disable it, or search first for a match in your region then widen the search criteria is no matches are found. Match making in Battleborn is too inconsistent, I sometimes get matched with US, EU, and Japanese players in the same lobby, sometimes I’ll match against full Japanese teams then full US teams the very next match. I’ve even had times when I had friends searching separate from me, we were both matched with full teams but not against each other, we both sat in a lobby with “searching for opponents” displayed, two full teams ready to play but not able to match against each other. So, region locking would be the perfect way to counter these matchmaking inconsistencies.