I believe he wants us to convince him of the merit of the latter paragraph's argument because he would like to consider changing his mind.
@Axs5626Sxa5001 I think that there are plenty of reasons for SBMM besides win rate, although that does seem to be the metric they use to measure its success. What mediocre players like myself want is to have a reasonable chance to ever come out on top in a fight. When I play against players with the sort of skill level you would appear to possess, that is not a possibility. When I queue with my friend and we bump up to lobbies where the champion squad is inevitably a stack with all the badges, I am almost without fail down to the first player I engage with. I can easily go an hour without a kill. Not fun at all and I actually stopped playing this game for almost an entire season from being so discourged by having those games over and over again.
Winning games is cool and all, I won't pretend I don't enjoy it. But it's not my impetus to play. I just want what feels like a decent quality match where if I play at my best I can succeed.
I have to accept that my perspective is biased and probably not indicative of what’s best for the largest player base in the community: casuals/lower skilled players.
My experience is entirely molded by the early days of non-ranked matchmaking, where everyone played everyone and natural hierarchies emerged by virtue of the player’s ability.
SBMM works in opposition to that idea. Awesome for ranked modes but not for non-ranked modes.
But the important thing is that I am in the MINORITY. I want skill to determine who wins more. I get upset when my Gold-level friends win more than me— not because they are more competent than me, but because they are in the democratic that the publisher wants winning as much as possible.
So in that regard, by virtue of being above average, I have to accept that I actually deserve to win at the same rate (or lower), because that benefits the company and the community as a whole. Of course, this realization prompts me to question whether I would even want to be part of a community that under-compensates competence— but that’s another discussion...
