Matchmaking

People love their eomm conspiracy theories. And I guess I shouldn't even call them that because no one can disprove that it's a factor. But there is a simpler explanation for what we're all experiencing. This is a seven year old game. It never had great matchmaking to begin with and after all this time that mechanism (and others) have driven away the casual player. The people who have stuck with it are the ones who were already good to begin with and seven years of practice hasn't made them any worse. It's just basic skill inflation. We could talk about the cheating and the smurfing, both of which are very, very real, but the lack of casual players, whatever the reason for their absence, is why this game feels objectively brutal now. How is sbmm supposed to put a normal player in a lobby of his peers when those peers left long ago for other games?