Apex Legends Smurfing and Matchmaking
Apex Legends Smurfing and Matchmaking Smurfing needs to be made an Ip Bannable offense permanatly i see countless smurf's everyday I play and I'm getting literally sick and tired of it Matchmaking ...
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@ZkepzAll MODERN day multiplayer games do this, because they realized that if they maximize the likelihood that below average-skilled players win, they can make a bit more money.
While I almost don’t blame the company’s using this strategy, we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to how this specifically targets above average skilled players for profits.
Again I can’t help but speak solely on my own experience:
the game places me in a situation that encourages my continued play to improve to win more— yet I win less overall because I improved myself too far— to Masters level, where I am designated to lose to Preds and Better Masters players. Lmao. Pubs shouldn’t be like this.
When above average players lose more than below average players (because the game is intentionally putting them in situations to lose) that’s an issue, no?
But the majority of the playerbase are average/below average, so most people don’t care. Anything that increases their chances of winning gets a green light.
In your dreams and logic the majority of the playerbase would play ranked and master and pred pubs. It's a reason they model it on sports division system. Where lesser athletes can win their division and lower competition to help develop talents to raise to elite level. This is also the reason apex can float 100mil players while games without barely manage and many shut down within a year. This is also why pubs has sbmm, if it caters for only 1% of the player base the game will become a proper dessert. You want the 1% to have a place to let their shoulders down and make fun of the rest, where the rest going to do that? It's a reason that master and pred is 1%, the AVG guy with a proper job and perhaps a family won't be able to do that without loosing one of said things and that is the people who actually able to buy things.
It's the 99% that caters for the 1% to have a vibrant game going where they can excel, even if it's sweaty and hard.
- @Zkepz
Right. So the question then becomes, what is being done to reward people who demonstrate competence yet experience the same outcomes of those who are less competent?
In a sports league, the players are paid to compete. Not only am I not getting paid, but we have paid them (through content purchases).
I am willing to have a hard and stressful time, in addition to actually losing more, just so lesser invested people can enjoy themselves— I have accepted that the minority of the player base should suffer for the greater good. But you have to reward these players some how. - @Zkepz You do agree with this right— that people in my skill bracket deserve to have an extra difficult time so that lower skilled players can enjoy themselves?
So what reward should be put in place to make it worth a player’s time to improve and such? Any words of advice for me, as I go on my 2nd week of daily games with no wins?
@Axs5626Sxa5001 wrote:
@ZkepzYou do agree with this right— that people in my skill bracket deserve to have an extra difficult time so that lower skilled players can enjoy themselves?
So what reward should be put in place to make it worth a player’s time to improve and such? Any words of advice for me, as I go on my 2nd week of daily games with no wins?"Right"?? You worked your way up to Master, you're fighting against your (more or less) equals.....no one ever said it was easy at the top....
THIS tho.....an obvious master/Predator who for whatever reason decided to smurf, absolutely MOWING down players that are far below him.....
.....where's MY reward making it worth MY time and effort to try and get better?
@DrenMadre @RC_Ocean this is the official position on smufs. One Smurf good, two smurfs bad 😃
I wonder if Conor means concurrent Smurf accounts for all legends, as against a new Smurf account each season, to do the rank solo to masters for all legends?
@DrenMadre to be fair master is not top of the food chain, some of the preds are quite a force to be reckoned with, and this is probably one of @Axs5626Sxa5001 issues, and would like to be able to get away from this at times, and he is looking for an incentive to stay in that bracket.
And @Axs5626Sxa5001 , i would say masters is 1st Division but not elite division. You have the option to go play ALGS, and get payed if you find a team and can qualify, you have the skills to be able to become an influencer, in general idd say you have a sweaty game day but at the same time you have better crew with you, idd say you are sweating the same way as everyone else. Still if you care about the trail you got that, but I do think managing to get to master and pred should give even more then just the trail, not money that's never gonna happen but unique skins pr season that only those select few get to float around, and esport wise more then ALGS should be there, they should do like Fortnite where algs is the big one and they have several comps for different ranks where price could be skins for diamond ups every other week or so and comps with small cash prizes master up every other week or so. I think that would be awesome and it would also give a new dimension to content creation for the people who do that aswell, this would also create a platform to recruit for algs. And being a part of algs would make you a pro so you cannot participate in said armature comps.
I think this would in general give the masses even a better reason to grind for diamond up and get that extra flavor to ranked in general pubs is pubs it's a place where it can be sweaty but not the same kind of sweaty but to be honest if the sbmm is removed there would be nowhere for people to go to get an easier game outside of masters and preds. In general I don't think this would be good for the health of the game.
- @Zkepz See if something like a unique master or pred skin for a character of your choice was implemented I’d still be irritated by SBMM but maybe a little bit less. My reward for being pred is a dive trail, badge, and a pub experience that makes it where I can’t play with friends or family and playing solo means I have to carry 2 below average players against 3 stack master and preds
- @Axs5626Sxa5001 Aawww, i'm sorry you suffer that much from being a skilled player. Of course you should be rewarded with beginners and low skill players to absolutely ravage, shred to bits and humiliate.....
Jesus.....@PulvertomtenCome on man, please read what’s being written. In literally all of my SBMM posts I have been open about new players absolutely being protected. There 100% should be a lengthy safe space for players to learn and enjoy the game. But after a certain point, players should compete in a public setting that exposes people to variety.
After that, if players really want a place to ensure they are exclusively playing as close to their doppelgänger as possible, that place should be the ranked mode (of any game).
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