What rubbish.
You make a system and some people will abuse it, sure. Who cares as long as it makes the game better for the majority of players. As it stands now it's garbage.
The game is going to die pretty soon if they don't fix this because the sweaty jobless dudes are going to have the game wrapped up tight and nobody else is going to want to play. I really like the core mechanics of this game. I would play it for a year or more at least but I'm not interested in being a target for some dude who's skin is fused with his mouse.
Fix it EA or lose a lot of players.
I haven't read through all the post here yet but it seems we're starting to blend ideas and it's leading to some hostility...
Skill-based matchmaking is not the same thing as a ranked mode. It can exist without a direct ranking system. An in game ranking system/ranked lobby would be a separate implementation than just skill-based matchmaking. I play differently in ranked mode than I do in casual regardless of skill level.
I do agree that SBMM would be easier to implement to a solo lobby and to solo queued players, in those scenarios you can just find those similar skilled players to fill in all slots. Having a premade squad of freinds can equate to vastly different skill thresholds and make SBMM difficult, but if it at least attempts to match it should smooth out the skill gap experienced.
