Re: The official Matchmaking blog post

@MindTrick85 Massive stats you have. I guess we are on the opposite ends of the player spectrum in terms of what we look in games so agree to disagree 🙂

Not denying problems with Apex or Anticheat. Me, I have encountered one blatant cheater this season. YT Apex channels show the situation at the top lobbies and of course it looks much worse if you only rely on those short clips. For casual like me the situation is clearly different.

Agreed also that EA input towards cheating is poor. I would assume since its neverending battle (ban some and new cheats roll in next day) they have accepted it as a unavoidable bad. Thats the issue with F2P that once banned they can just create a new account and back to playing in 15 minutes. I would have been probably be willing to buy Apex for some sum but then again it would kill the already small player base and the matchmaking would be a nightmare for a player of my skills. 

Its hard to get real stats of the cheating issues but below gives some input:

@MindTrick85Respawn and EA are guilty of gross negligence with Apex. It's pretty obvious that the community is withholding support of the game because of this. They've done nothing to address the issues with matchmaking, cheaters, smurfs, aim assist balance, & server performance while implementing a series of over priced money grabs ($100 skins, collection events, new currency type, 2x battle passes per season, etc.). At this point they'd have to gamble an investment to fix all this in the hopes that the community would reward them later. The bean counters at EA are NEVER going to do that though. Personally, the only thing that would open my wallet again for Apex is fixing all or at least some of those issues and I know that isn't going to happen. We are on the slow decline and EA/Respawn don't have the guts to turn it around.

S22 ranked has been a tough one. 
16-20 seasons my KD was on an incline for up to 0.89 or something. 
S21 was 0.65
S22 I am at 0.3 and dont see no end to the decline on how the games are going. 

Smurfs exploiting for kills and apparently I fell off the wagon on the skills department? 
Or maybe the bot royale is also calculated to my MMR (that would be nasty trick now would it to justify that small PvE dopamine with instadeaths on PvP...)? 
Yes, I keep ranking up in my bronze lobby regardless of the above but I dont like how the games make me feel. 

I wish the ranked would have more direct feedback to the matchmaking. 
If you drop 10 bomb in bronze lobby, you should be sent directly two ranks above. 
Now the grindish nature keeps the exploiters in lower lobbies so long that its killing the interest in playing the game. 

I would really like to just have even matches. I dont mind playing bronze forever. For me its all about the game experience.
Couldnt care less about BP or cosmetics.

Matchmaking is the worst in Apex history. Why are beginner players combined with masters/predators and people who have played in ALGS tournaments in one game? Can someone explain this to me? I get people on my team who can barely move and how can they cope in such a lobby?

Stop writing nonsense that matchmaking works based on skills.

Have you turned off matchmaking just because you have the lowest player count in 2-3 years?

@Miss_Apex_B4_s20 
@jokool_aid 

I have been given two types of SoloQ ranked matches in BRONZE:
1. We drop somewhere quiet and we end up dying later to a team that sweeps the lobby (total 15-25kills combined). 
2. Our jumpmaster decides hotdrop us and we get boxed latest on the third or fourth party. 

Both of these situations mean that I get rewarded ranked points. Meaning I am now almost silver from bronze 4 with maybe 10 total kills to my name for the season. 
During past days I have been wondering how are these super teams & individuals leveling up so slow? Day in day out I am getting bullied in the bronze lobbies by teams that are dropping double digit numbers. And yet I keep leveling up. So these super players gotta be fed you know. Clever clever. 

Yes, it is indeed skill based match making. And its working perfectly so far on my matches. 
https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/matchmaking-2023?isLocalized=true 
"Ranked, we value having teammates of equal skill, and a lower burden of “carry”, over a perfectly fair match."

So far its been pretty far from anything resembling fair. So if you are lower skilled player like me hoping to play against players of same skill in ranked, and having a bad time now, please prepare for even worse times. If you play badly and have bad experience now, you will be given worse experiences in the future.

I will check back on ranked with the next rumble to see how are these other "bronze" skill level players.
I am pretty confident that I already know how its going to go with smurfing/ranked exploits but lets see. 

Pubs / Revival mode has the same SBMM bracketing. Some super team will drop 40 bomb and you get 1-4 deaths to your KD. GG.
Now you cannot really come here and defend that the above SBMM is to be considered only in ranked as it clearly isnt working for someone whose season KD is now 0.2. 
If it would actually work I would be carried around like a newborn baby. 

Thats life I guess. But to me Apex feels unplayable. Once normal trios returns I will check back on it. 

Totally agree!!!!

@Airish85 Very similar k/dr across those seasons too and exactly linked to why I uninstalled last week. It really feels like slightly above average players are just getting the worst of matchmaking. Too good for newbies, not good enough for sweats… but sacrificed to the sweats in the name of comforting newbies in the hopes they stick around.

My gut tells me that never was any sort of SBMM in Apex because of the fact that I get better lobbies when there are less players online on my regional servers. 

And as opposite to for example now when its the prime time, the EOMM is really trying its best to push me by giving me worse and worse game experiences (and then possibly the dopamine reward hook at somepoint). What makes this sickening is I only play ranked where I would expect to play people against my own skill. Situation should be reversed by any logic. I shouldn't have to grind 4 hour game sessions to get the single "good game experience".  My time is too valuable for that.

Lot of talk about integrity and not much to show for it. 

"I get better lobbies when there are less players online"

Thank you for fixing this. Now I get bad lobbies on both. 
Gotta stay consistent.