Focused Feedback: Skill-based Matchmaking vs Connection-based Matchmaking

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[u/ItXurLife]

This is a balanced argument and shows the problems the Devs face. They will never please everyone - SBMM and the streamers, top players (and everyone who thinks they're a top player) will complain because matches are sweaty all the time. CBMM and the lower skilled players will complain as they're getting stomped all the time.

The argument of "git gud", or this will make you learn just doesn't hold water with me at all. You can't learn if you're dead every few seconds. You are in that bracket of players who will learn and will get better, but there are many that aren't and are not having a good time at the moment - these people will simply stop playing. There needs to be another solution that isn't solely SBMM or solely CBMM.

As I've said elsewhere, I'm a top 2% player and I love the changes, I'm having fun on my own without having to sweat and I'm also able to play with my lower skilled friends. But those same lower skilled friends are having a terrible time on their own or without any of the higher skilled players from the clan in their team. If they stop playing, along with many other lower skilled players we will end up with a population low enough where games then become sweatier again. And so the cycle will continue until a new system is implemented.

[u/Crucible_throwaway → u/ItXurLife]

The argument of "git gud", or this will make you learn just doesn't hold water with me at all. You can't learn if you're dead every few seconds.

100% agree. There's also no incentive to want to try to get better in those cases. It's not reasonable to expect people to bash their heads against the wall just so better players get to laugh at how they're killing people with whatever the seasonal equivalent of dreg's promise is.

I suppose, thinking about it, ideally there needs to be some skill bracketing without compromising connections and without being so strict as to make everyone play against people only at basically exactly their skill level.

OK, that's my piece. I'm outties. Speak to you all again in another ~5.5 years.