Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?
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@JiboTV Don't take my reply personal. I don't know how you play, so I'm mostly referring to players I've seen or have been teamed up with. Also, I'm not new to this forum, I have read hundreds of topics about people's fun being ruined by various things.
Before SBMM becoming the plague, most complaints were about teammates lacking skill or not getting involved properly in the game. That sounded like a cry for more sweats, honestly. The actual irony is that there seems to be too many of them now.
Before SBMM becoming the plague, most complaints were about teammates lacking skill or not getting involved properly in the game. That sounded like a cry for more sweats, honestly. The actual irony is that there seems to be too many of them now.
@DoYaSeeMe It was a dig and I addressed it as such. It also insinuated a lot about my character without acknowledging the substance of my proposition. I never brought up how often you use the forum or how it is relevant? I am sure there are people who have made posts offering no recommendations or just complaining about more benign, low priority, or high variance issues in the past. This, however, is not a post about an issue of high variance. I am not nonsensically complaining, I would say this issue is a higher priority, and I am offering what this particular forum board encourages. That is critical feedback and discussion regarding the game's current state. I think my approach in this post has been beyond reproach and very reasonable, I fail to see why you want to compare it to thousands of people posting "I'm not having fun because of X." given the clear effort I put in to do exactly not that.
So by calling it a plague, you acknowledge SBMM is problematic? Also, I'm sure there is some irony in that idea, but I'd still say your initial understanding is more ironic. Some people do look for things to criticize even when they it isn't that big of a deal. But I consider myself pretty reasonable, an avid gamer, and a fan of Apex. I am not looking to hate or do anything else you suggested in your initial posted response. My thoughts are my own and expressed in my post / responses and seem to be reflected by the community at some level, perhaps you aren't being charitable to the fact some players are not able to articulate or understand why they feel a certain way as well as someone like me? You sound cynical to the nature of what allowing open feedback causes.
- @JiboTV Sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear ( I was about to get my daily dose of Apex kills and rushed it, heh). I see you as a representative of those that don't like SBMM in its current form, so, if I say "you", I'm usually referring to that category.
I mentioned about my experience of on this forum because things do relate. This new form of SBMM didn't just come out of the blue, it was added in an attempt to address some of the issues of the community, that were pretty visible here, mostly behind topics like "X ruins Apex", "I'm not having fun because of X". Your approach is way better and I appreciated it, replying with my own view on the matter and adding a small twist of fun in it.
SBMM is a good thing in my opinion, far from being a plague, but the community acts like it's an actual calamity, after conveniently ignoring or forgetting that they've asked for it. Perfect for a bit of irony, and I'm sure the community can take it, they're not 6 year-olds (Apex has an age rating of 16+, if you're less, you should be grounded :P).@DoYaSeeMeHey buddy. Since you are a player in favor of SBMM, I'd love to see how you enjoy it once these endings are 100% percent of your public "casual" lobbies.
https://youtu.be/Em6T6UXCh3k
This is essentially the ending of every public game I queue into now, and it has no gameplay difference from Ranked, other than I don't earn points in a ranking system for sweating my balls off.
Lower tier players are oblivious to how toxic Public lobbies are for the people who are actually decent at the game.- @dlpaulson12 I think I'd like to get more of these. It's actually better than facing a full premade squad of predators, where average, no mic, solo queue players like me have very slim chances. It also looks more chill than a full on battle for the win between 2-3 full teams, where I often get killed miliseconds before popping a cell or syringe.
Anyway, these are players not wanting to push stupidly just to die third partied, like "noobs". What I understand from your reply is that you would like rookie players like that, to get an effortless, casual win every now and then. But the lower tier players have nothing to gain from that. They need a more forgiving environment to be able to learn from their mistakes and become better. Also, they don't need their highly skilled teammate spilling toxic frustration on them for every mistake they do.
