I was in an Xbox Live party and we wanted to start a game that (1) had us all in the same game where (2) we were all on the same team but where (3) we could play human opponents.

When a party member/leader tried to join a public versus game he would usually end up in a game that was ongoing and/or full.

When starting a private game, we could all get in, but the game was private so we only had bots to play, or we had to split teams, which then made the voip/party chat unworkable as a tactical tool etc.

There needs to be a "start new game" option instead of just "join a game", further there needs to be a "start new game with party" where you can svck the entire party into a game all at once but still have the game be public to everyone.

This could be some sort of alternate reservation protocol or something.

In the absence of this Brink is party antagonistic.

hmmm... you have my agreement! this would be good. unfortanetly, my friends dont have brink, so it wouldn't help me, but it would be neat.