Is equity in video games a good thing?
I continue to be interested in people’s opinion on this. Forced SBMM seeks to make players play people in their skill range. The more aggressive the SBMM algorithm, the better the game is at ma...
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@Axs5626Sxa5001what SBMM ????
https://youtu.be/d06ZX-VY198
https://youtu.be/w8Kr4eryoN4
https://youtu.be/JljJPWjIpYw
and there is more, every time I get a premade squad this happens, and am talking about gold lobbies.
imagine gold players get thrown into freaking preds, cheaters, selected, favored players just so they get pushed up more in ranked on the account of average players like us
@maximas1986
I hear you, but it’s not like gold level players would be dropping into an entire lobby of preds— that’s just not statistically possible if lobbies were made randomly. Players would occasionally run into preds, but the entire lobby wouldn’t be comprised of them.
As it stands now, about 80% of my pub lobby has master/pred trails. Do you have any idea how nuts that is? Personally, I have plateau’d in skill. As a Masters player I am statistically “more skilled” than about 95% of the player base, but with a 1.5% win rate, I’m losing more than literally all of my friends— and they are pretty average at the game.
I feel like there is an undertone held by certain people that players of all skill should win and lose about the same, because that’s “fair”. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s an extension of “everyone gets a trophy”, but it certainly feels a bit like that sometimes.If we think about “wins” as a resource, skilled players are the ones who would acquire most of this resource because they are more competent at the activity. I feel like aggressive SBMM in video games seeks to redistribute resources (wins) to less competent players.
Overall (Pubs and Ranked), shouldn’t a player who is better than 95% of the player base actually be winning SUBSTANTIALLY more than average players? Again, not in just Apex but in any game/activity.
