I think it would be very hard to balance matches by skill level. And until the software can balance the player counts there is no sense in trying to balance by skill level.
Right now they cant even get the team player counts balanced before the match starts. And even during the match, the player counts on each team can be horribly lop sided.
So lets get the player counts balanced and go from there.
Certainly in Battlefield, game generated balanced teams are nigh on impossible to manufacture because of the myriad of different playstyles opportunities across vehicles and infantry depending on game mode.
There are simply too many variables to account for.
That said, and I am with OP to a very large degree, I would rather lose a well fought match than win a stomp.
Stats are also a major problem in my opinion, too many people worship at the alter of the Almighty KD and will do anything to get that extra +0.1 on their ratio. I don't play the game to get a high KD, I play for the laughs. Granted, being negative can be frustrating but on the whole, as long as I kill more than I die and win more than I lose, no matter how small the margin, I am happy.
Alas, gone are the times when a group of lads (and indeed, lasses) joined up together to crack open a beer, have a laugh and play the game for fun.
The super leet MLG sweaty tryhards led by their YouTube overlords have turned online gaming into something a lot less fun than it used to be.
So , why did you , or I , or anyone join an FPS in the first place?
If it's for what I think it was , well , there's our 'problem' .
No one wants to let happen to them what we'd like to make happen to them .
Our 'happiness' is actually something that everyone tries to avoid .
Some even get way better at this than others .
Whattaya gonna do?
I'll tell you this :
Whatever it is , it had better be better than a better .
If not , then it surely was fun trying .
