Skill Based Match Making

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Hello Respawn,My name is Tyler, or you can address me by my Apex name, OculonFacebook.&nbsp; I absolutely loved your game, Apex Legends, I've spent many hours playing it.&nbsp; I own all the Pop figures, and planned on purchasing the Weta Workshop statues and minis as well.&nbsp; &nbsp;That is, until you tossed in Skill Based Match Making to help the 90% of players who suffer at playing the game.&nbsp; Well, I'm one of those 90% players, but your SBMM doesn't appear to think that.&nbsp; I haven't played in about two weeks, so I jumped in last night to see where the game put me as far as skill level goes.&nbsp; The max Ranked play I've ever done was like Silver 4 or 3, so I figured I'd be stuck in that area and have to try hard and "get gud".&nbsp; Man, was I wrong.&nbsp; Predators, Diamonds and Platinums in every single game I played last night in Unranked.&nbsp; So, why am I being punished as a 90%er?&nbsp; I can't compete on their levels, and Unranked mode isn't where I should have to compete with them.&nbsp; You have a game mode for that, it's called RANKED MODE.Long story short, your Skill Based Match Making is not fun, it's not helping the game, and it's pushing people like me away who loved the game and loved spending money on the game.&nbsp; You may not care about if I have fun in your game or not, but I know you DO care about if I spend money on your game or your products, and I refuse to do that anymore.&nbsp; You've ruined the game, the fun, and the cash flow from me.&nbsp; You can check my account and tally up how much money I've spent on this game if you don't believe me.&nbsp; Maybe seeing dollar signs disappearing will open your eyes when tons of complaints from your player base won't do it.I'll come back when you remove SBMM from Unranked play, as will the rest of your die hard fan base.

jibotv · Answer

Hey there. I am interested in your perspective given that you perceive yourself as being part of the larger portion of the Apex population that you think SBMM is supposed to aid! I made a post on here titled "Let's Talk about Skill-Based Matchmaking?". Here is the link - https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/Lets-Talk-About-Skill-Based-Matchmaking/m-p/8518898#M34493

You may believe that you are being unfairly targeted as someone who is better than you are - But what if I told you that SBMM tends to work in a way where you are exactly where you should be right now? I echo this thought in my original post mentioned above when I explain that the result of SBMM is that you end up punishing players that perform better. The approach is far more top-down in that it is not attempting to raise up the lower skilled players, but instead prevents players who perform better at some level from being able to access broader lobbies. I explained it in much simpler terms "You either get better, or just die.". If you do not perform better than the enemies as you get more skilled, you just die. There is so little variance, the little clutch moments happen less and less, it gets harder to outplay people, tougher to do solo matches, mistakes are magnified, and your lower skilled friends cannot contribute in your games anymore (Making it tough or unplayable to queue with friends.).

Hopefully I provided you with a base to understand SBMM better!

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