Match Making
Do you know what happens when after 45 mins I don't get a single kill and eveyrone never misses and I'm just smoked game after game after game.... I play something else. Please fix your match making...
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I played 2+2+2 hours of soloq ranked past weekend and managed to get a handful <5 of kills.
On Olympus I didnt get anything and just kept losing RP game after game.
I am saying it again. Its not really SBMM but EOMM. By throwing me a bone with a cracked duo every 5-6 games to run down the lobby for Top 3 finish and me doing 300 dmg + 4 participations + 2 assists is not what makes me think "Oh wow game feels super fun". So as an average player I feel like my playing is predetermined because even with poor matches I am pretty much on the same rank level as I was before the weekend.
Assumption of person playing ranked to achieve a certain rank and rigging game so that he plays as much as possible to gain it is what annoys me.
I am down to battle it out and just leave it there in my Gold 3 lobby if I feel like the players are on the same level as I am. No need to get Gold 2 or anything. Or if they feel like I should be at Silver I have no issues with that either if that gives me same skill level players to play with.
@Airish85
"So as an average player I feel like my playing is predetermined...."
You nailed it here, although I would say that you don't even have to bring eomm (or even sbmm) into it at all. This is simply the nature of soloing any team-based game. If the matchmaking were completely random, I don't think the experience would be materially different. Could be wrong. Might not be. Who knows?
"Assumption of person playing ranked to achieve a certain rank and rigging game so that he plays as much as possible to gain it is what annoys me."
And there it is again. Perfect observation. The game wants you to KEEP PLAYING and therefore your rank grind will, by design, last as long as they can possibly make it last without having an effect on churn. There are so many other compelling reasons to turn one's back on the rank grind, but this alone would be enough for me to never set foot on a rank ladder ever again.
@HappyHourSumwur
"In some cases I get carried and am obviously dead weight that my masters/pred teammates have to revive over and over again. That's almost worse than getting destroyed immediately in humiliating fashion."
This is, in a nutshell, the problem with these wide skill range matches. You're expected to carry two low-skill teammates, or you're expected to have two masters drag you into one untenable situation after another, constantly scraping you up off the floor. The first situation I'll tolerate poorly, but the second will usually drive me to quit in the lobby. I don't want to watch them doing ten things per engagement that look like pure cheatery, and I also don't want to be babysat, especially if they have an attitude about it. And they ALWAYS have an attitude about it. I think it was @hayhor who once told the story of his two stack predator teammates who said, paraphrasing here, "Be quiet and try to keep up." And his response was, as I recall, exactly what mine would have been: "Here, watch how quiet I can be... as I quit on your sorry a**."
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I'll end this with the same call to the developer I've been making practically since the game launched: stop pretending to match on skill, which is far more theory than actuality, and start matching on playstyle. I would despise the wide skill ranges a lot less if my teammates were at least on the same page as me concerning match goals and strategies.
"So as an average player I feel like my playing is predetermined...."
You nailed it here, although I would say that you don't even have to bring eomm (or even sbmm) into it at all. This is simply the nature of soloing any team-based game. If the matchmaking were completely random, I don't think the experience would be materially different. Could be wrong. Might not be. Who knows?
"Assumption of person playing ranked to achieve a certain rank and rigging game so that he plays as much as possible to gain it is what annoys me."
And there it is again. Perfect observation. The game wants you to KEEP PLAYING and therefore your rank grind will, by design, last as long as they can possibly make it last without having an effect on churn. There are so many other compelling reasons to turn one's back on the rank grind, but this alone would be enough for me to never set foot on a rank ladder ever again.
@HappyHourSumwur
"In some cases I get carried and am obviously dead weight that my masters/pred teammates have to revive over and over again. That's almost worse than getting destroyed immediately in humiliating fashion."
This is, in a nutshell, the problem with these wide skill range matches. You're expected to carry two low-skill teammates, or you're expected to have two masters drag you into one untenable situation after another, constantly scraping you up off the floor. The first situation I'll tolerate poorly, but the second will usually drive me to quit in the lobby. I don't want to watch them doing ten things per engagement that look like pure cheatery, and I also don't want to be babysat, especially if they have an attitude about it. And they ALWAYS have an attitude about it. I think it was @hayhor who once told the story of his two stack predator teammates who said, paraphrasing here, "Be quiet and try to keep up." And his response was, as I recall, exactly what mine would have been: "Here, watch how quiet I can be... as I quit on your sorry a**."
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I'll end this with the same call to the developer I've been making practically since the game launched: stop pretending to match on skill, which is far more theory than actuality, and start matching on playstyle. I would despise the wide skill ranges a lot less if my teammates were at least on the same page as me concerning match goals and strategies.
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