Matchmaking thoughts from a Dev

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@reconzero wrote:
@Axs5626Sxa5001

I got as far through that as I could before it made me want to put my fist through my screen.

The idea that non-ranked gameplay should be a feeding ground for high-level players, and that it's completely okay because there are no ranks at stake, is the single most offensive thing I've ever heard on the subject of sbmm. It's exactly the thing that high-level players say when they're tired of slogging it out with other high-level players and start feeling put upon, as if they have some intrinsic right to crap all over lower-level players for no other reason than because it would be more fun for them.

And I'm also tired to death of the very mistaken idea that ranked gameplay is reward driven and unranked gameplay is "casual," "non-competitive," "insert your own rationalization here for why it's okay to pit what amounts to professional athletes against kids." Rankings are a head game that do not REWARD players, they DESCRIBE their abilities. Players very mistakenly think of it as reward-based, and hence my description of it as a head game. The only reward in any game, imo, is a win. And last I checked this game offers wins in both ranked and unranked gameplay. Taking a win away from a guy who just started the game and has twenty matches in two weeks, so that some sweaty diamond grinder can feel better about himself is pitiable.

Virtually every competitive sport I can think of has gameplay broken into peer groups, grouped either by age or by skill. Little Leaguers very seldom, unless I've missed some new development, play against the Red Sox. And with reason. That kind of pummeling doesn't make the kids into better players, and it absolutely shouldn't make the pros feel all tough and manly. If it does then those people should be medicated. And barred from the sport.

Sorry about the rant but I've been pissed off about this since Halo 2, and it depresses me to have to keep defending something that seems so obvious. If you can explain it to me in a different way than Mr. Former Infinity Ward I promise to read every word.

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AMEN!!!

This is what I keep talking about. Their EOMM doesn't work, except on the poor kids who think they will be the next twitch star and keep taking the abuse. It doesn't convince me to play more, it convinces me to do my "2 a day as ________" for 2 total stars and log out. It convinces me that dropping the match before we hit the ground because hot drop harry insists on taking me to Fragment is perfectly OK. It convinces me that this team game isn't a team game. 

And I don't care about getting all the stars because I don't care about fully completing the battle pass because I will never buy it when I am the freaking product. A product that exists to feed kills and egos to those people that want to be 'content creators' instead of getting a real job.

Sorry, might be showing my age here but in my days 'content creators' made freaking ART be it paintings, literature, music, dance, something tangible and real that gave something back to humanity.

This (and all video games to me) is not my dang job. I have a job. It pays me very well to think of solutions to real problems and then solve them. I put in my 40 hours plus on that. I'm not going to learn this game as a 2nd job. I'm a super casual player. I play my single player games the first time on easy.  If they want me to put more time into this game, then they need to make the "I don't care I'm casual" league.

And if they EVER want me to spend real cash on it, they better give me some single player content. For crying out loud, just give me the Apex version of Frontier Defense. Give all us crap casuals that that are here just because we miss Titanfall game-play and we'll go there, never to darken your BR again.