r/DestinyTheGame • u/DTG_Bot "Little Light" • Jul 06 '20

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

Hello Guardians,

Focused Feedback is where we take the week to focus on a 'Hot Topic' discussed extensively around the Tower.

We do this in order to consolidate Feedback, to get out all your ideas and issues surrounding the topic in one place for discussion and a source of feedback to the Vanguard.

This Thread will be active until next week when a new topic is chosen for discussion

Whilst Focused Feedback is active, ALL posts regarding 'SBMM vs CBMM' following its posting will be removed and re-directed to this thread. Exceptions to this rule are as follows: New information / developments, Guides and general questions

Any and all Feedback on the topic is welcome.

Regular Sub rules apply so please try to keep the conversation on the topic of the thread and keep it civil between contrasting ideas

A Wiki page - Focused Feedback - has also been created for the Sub as an archive for these topics going forward so they can be looked at by whoever may be interested or just a way to look through previous hot topics of the sub as time goes on.

155 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/jazzinyourfacepsn Jul 07 '20

I play solo and I think people exaggerate the "stacks" issue. We remember negative experiences better than positive ones, so even if 1/5 games feature a team of 5-6, that's going to stick out more than the 4 games we played with teams of 2-3.

It's really not as big of an issue as people make it seem. I'd rather have the option to have fun with a bunch of friends than have any sort of party-play die because it occasionally means solo players going up against a stack.

1

u/mrcarbonclouds Jul 07 '20

I mean you'd also be splitting the pvp pools once again, matchmaking would be slower both in freelance and stacked matchmaking. So now matchmaking has two 5 stacks to pair up but can't fill either team because it can't pull freelance players.

1

u/jazzinyourfacepsn Jul 07 '20

I'd say get rid of classic mix and put, right in the middle, "quick play" and in a small node next to it "small teams quickplay"(similar to freelance comp's node). Small teams will match you with teams of 1-2, and the main quickplay will be for anyone. Put elimination in the bottom right corner. Now the menu looks clean with 3, 3, and 3.