I mean, high MMR pubs exist— where every player is a 4k 20 bomb, high skilled player.
Are you saying that you’re the only person in these lobbies, or are you saying that some of the players in your lobby are better than you?
There is a difference between there being some high skilled players and the entire lobby being high skilled players. In the latter, even good players feel like crap.
If you’re advocating for tighter matchmaking in pubs, I will have to HARD disagree.
As I mentioned its the lack of games even playable for me at all. I dont know if the whole lobby is cracked because in most games the only two squads I am abled to see are the champions and the squad who wipes mine in seconds. And both of them are 3 stacks in like 95% of the games I played so far this season.
The decreasing numbers of lower level casual players (like me) is the result of an absolute desastrous matchmaking the last seasons as mentioned. No one wants to get perma rolled by cracked players (or smurfs - as soon as many good players reach the high-lvl lobbies that you mentioned and still want to go for farming games - by the way an official report reason but that problem doesn't seem to get fixed either). So the casuals leave the game in even bigger numbers.
For example my friends who left the game would consider to come back if they would fix this problem. Thats why there has to be longer que times.. and do I get the point of much people want to play easy lobbies without sweaty last circle algs endings in pubs? Yes! But to create that on the fact to point the whole game in favor for the better players just to ruin the game for the low levels isn't fair at all.
As I said, other games also manage to have more or less fair sbmm and I wouldn't complain if there would be 5 games getting rolled, if I would get at least 2-3 games where I can play fair matchups but the complete lack of those fair games and ONLY games against the top lvl players ist too much and I think that should be understandable for everyone.
I hear you.
Daily player numbers vary per server and time of day. Mind sharing whether you play pubs or ranked and previous details.
What kind of stats do you also consider lower level casual?
Personally this season I played pretty much only ranked BR + some mixtape before calling it quits of BR for the same reason you are facing.
Had 0.86 KD with Winrate of ~7% and Gold 3.
*putting on my foil hat
Game felt rigged, like my progress in ranked was predetermined so that I would not reach certain ranks too fast and too early regarding the season length.
Dont know if I should be any better than Gold but my struggle in Rookie & Bronze gave me the gut feeling of game being rigged. Idea is to keep players playing as according to some study they are more likely to spend money when they do. But as I set out to play ranked I didnt have a target rank or anything so it was missed with me.
*removing my foil hat
To be fair the beginning of this season I was pretty much breaking all my records. Had KD of well over 2 for some time without the progress in ranked. Explanation for this could be the fact that there was way more casuals in the beginning and most importantly I took the whole previous season off and played aim trainers and single player games which reset my MMR to beginner level.
Try taking a week or something off. See if it resets your MMR like it did for me (although I took longer break).
