The official Matchmaking blog post

@Axs5626Sxa5001 Bro, you just consistently hit the nail on the head with this issue. Why is the majority of people not thinking about this by themselves and seeing the wood from the trees? IMO no match should be manipulated in any way. THAT is the only fair approach. It's a video game for crying out loud and a competitive one at that so everyone knows what they're signing up for when they download it. Let people play and stop interfering. MM was originally created to automate the act of choosing a server/finding a game manually by the player - which was free of sbmm anyway in the past. What we see today is everything except that... <$$$

I'm seeing a lot of youtube vids pop up regarding this issue recently and the "unfairness" it brings with it in another popular game which I won't mention, but it's all the same really. But yeah, at least it seems like there is a small growing movement against this whole mess of a system. At the very least it's raising awareness albeit slowly. 🙂

At the very least there should be a mode free of sbmm. Pubs IS he casual mode so I have yet to even see ONE valid argument why it should have sbmm - we have ranked for that.

@hayhor "Every shooter does it to help retain players. It's better for the majority of the player base." - and here lies the problem. Why should there be a "system" to retain and protect players? If a game is good that is all that matters, people will play then. You wanna be good at it? Learn, and play more, put in effort and time and practice if it's that important to you. Dark Souls games exist for his reason as an example. New players this and that....you really think a new player cares about your experience? Hard no, why should anyone else care about theirs? Good for one player through manipulation means someone else is being punished in return. ☹️

@CCbathwater Oh, I had clearly started as a Type 4, morphed into a Type 5 trying to keep playing with my kid, then we both finally gave up because it's just demoralizing constantly being fed to Types 1 and 2.

If you been around a long time, you are likely a Type 1, or a higher skilled type 5 (you do come and go, usually with LTMs you like).

@Kyldenar Not as much "come and go as I like", more like being forced away, between sbmm, reveal meta, and hot-drop griefers, BR mode is just unplayable.

@hayhor You can have a PvP only game that still retains a casual audience, but it requires some catering to Type 5s. This game isn't doing that.

If you're not going to cater the PvP to Type 5s, then you have to add a cooperative PvE element to the game to help retain them. Until they announced they were killing all PvE development, I thought they were headed that way with a Frontier Defense like mode or game for a Revolution against the Syndicate (as that seems to be what the lore is hinting at, aka Titan War 2) but now...

Well, the churn is just going to get worse. Which is a shame because the movement and gunplay is on point, it's just everything else that is wrong.

@Kyldenar I'm also disappointed in the lack of a single player game.

I disagree that this churn is killing the game though. They hit the most concurrent users ever on at the same time to start the season.

Will the game die eventually? Yes it will but it will be a number of factors combined. MM, bad new content and another game being the main factors.