Lets Talk About 'Skill-Based Matchmaking'?

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@TheJumpingJawa wrote:

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@DarthVaapar wrote:

@JiboTVThis is a very good post, that I must disagree with.

You are not being punished for being good. On the contrary, you are being fairly pitted against players of similar skill. You are simply being challenged. Removing SBMM removes that challenge.

The experience you describe is the same for everyone, not just high skilled players. Everyone is playing against opponents of like skill. They are not being punished either, but fairly challenged.

The vast majority of players will never be as good as those of your skill level. Tailoring a game to a small minority’s preference would not, in fact, be good for a game sustainability. The opposite is true.

What you describe is an acute experience that can only be had by the very few, Predator level players, who represent a tiny fraction of the population. Domination of lesser skilled players in a non SBMM environment.

I apologize, but you are simply wrong.

All players are more fairly challenged now, on average. That’s a great model for a game.

SBMM has not only improved the gaming experience for the overwhelming majority of players, but it had also constructed the foundation for long term sustainability.

Masters against novices is a terrible format for any competition.

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So everyone must be content with winning 1 in 20 games?

'cos that's the natural consequence of perfectly balanced matches.

No matter how good you are; if you play at the skill level appropriate to your MMR, statistically you'll have a 5% chance of winning a match, and you'll tend towards a K/D of 1:1.

That isn't my idea of a satisfying progression system, nor a rewarding experience.

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Actually, most everyone was already content with your statistics, and even worse, since before SBMM, the game was basically allowing professional level players to run amok against college and high school level players. Most players, the overwhelming  vast majority of them, are in the high school and college arena. 

If you find it unrewarding to play against similarly skilled opponents, and prefer rather to play against lower levels, then yes, maybe you should seek such “rewarding” entertainment elsewhere.  There are other games that promote such disparate match making. Thankfully, this game is no longer one of them.