@Unitee01
"Why is everything depressing or some other sort of negative with you?"
My friend, I am the original Captain Sunshine. I think you're confusing me with someone else.
On the subject of rewards in video games I feel like we have a lot more to hash out, but I'm not sure I fully understand where you were going with what you said on the subject. It sounded as if you were suggesting that rewards are for people who earn them on a level playing field and the people who didn't earn them need to buck up and get better. If I misunderstood then I stand open to correction. But if not, then I have to say I'm quite happy to have video games NOT be life in microcosm where the term "rat race" is the definition of existence. I already have a life, and a job, and Apex is where I come to sort of get away from some of that. I'm not saying hard work shouldn't be rewarded. I love that this game gives out 4k badges and 20 bomb badges and pretty dive trails. I will never have any of those things and I genuinely appreciate it when people earn those things (legitmately) and are proud of the accomplishment. I'm only trying to suggest that there are other accomplishments to be taken out of the game besides the baubles of hard core competition. I could go on for hours about the psychology of rankings and rank ladders and whether they provide any of the different forms of utility that people think they offer, but just because I question their purpose doesn't mean that I begrudge people their right to climb if that's what they want to do.
AND the final circle-back to sbmm: Having random matchmaking would definitely be one way to "reward" higher skill players, but it's hardly the only possible way. But I think the developer already knows that a reward is one thing, but a reward for one player at the expense of another is something entirely different. Respawn already knows from experience what happens when they loosen sbmm, and what happens is NOT an expanding population with players reporting high levels of satisfaction. How can we square that experience with what you're asking for?
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Apex MM:
@WolferatoYep, pretty much sums it up. It's only cheating if they didn't do it or if the upper hand didn't come from them directly. This is 100000% cheating by definition as your team didn't stand a chance and it was intentional. Such a lame society we live in. Brain dead.
@Unitee01 those are exactly the things that make me say : Samy Ducs Blogpost about the Matchmaking is a phony lie.
Does in no way resemble what he told about the Matchmaking in place.
In which bucket theory of his fits this example ? 1+1+1 = 10+10+3 ?
That's a lot of hours. It really only takes me one session of pubs to know how broken MM is, but that is just impressions and not quantified.
When you get into runs of 8 - 10 games of getting absolutely obliterated repeatedly and MM does absolutely nothing about it, you know it is completely broken.
You've noticed that, huh? Lol. You should interpret my post as a meme. I took that image from Google images. Nevertheless, the point is still valid.
On a side note, I myself experienced a squad with two Wraiths once. Guess the outcome.
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