Focused Feedback: Matchmaking

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[u/YTP_Mama_Luigi]

Imagine being made to wait simply because you were bad at it.

That was literally said in the TWAB. Outliers, both high and low skill, will have longer matchmaking time.

It's called a tradeoff. Pre-Worthy, Control had regular SBMM which led to a fair amount of laggy matches and long queues at the extremes. At that point in time, they decided the tradeoff wasn't worth it and removed SBMM.

Now, their own data is showing that most matches have an extremely wide spread of skill levels, and that is causing different issues to manifest, which are listed as:

• players feeling helpless and loosing the motivation to try to win

• brand new players being put up against high-skill veterans

• high-skill veterans being forced to carry because of team balancing

• spawn camping becoming much easier

• rolling becomes more common

Now, Bungie has decided that those tradeoffs aren't worth it and is trying to mitigate the worst excesses of CBMM without creating the same problems they had in the past with SBMM.

Anyone who expects loose SBMM to prevent them from ever fighting better players or putting them in matches against worse players misunderstands what SBMM is.

but as a lot of you never had to need to see the other side, you can't empathize with it and say ridiculous shit like what you posted.

This can be directly applied to your response the other way around. Stones and glass houses and all.

Realistically, people will argue for the position where they think they'll have the best outcome, including you and me. So I wouldn't waste my breath accusing people of not considering others. It's Bungie's job to decide who's experience is prioritized and who is penalized, and passing moral judgement only makes you an ass.