i cant believe a company or person hasnt done this yet. the reason why hearthstone is failing and people are quitting standard in drones is pretty simple. you could basically just re skin hearthstone and fix the problems and that card game would make bank
get rid of
1-rigged matchmaking. no more oppononts decided by your deck or class. its 100% based on what league or rank youre in.
2-no MMR. mmr is used in everything. even arena. get rid of it. if its truley RNG then the things should even out. if you need to artificallychange win rates then your game sucks.
3-get rid of i win cards. the game is 90$ “print OP Card that is a win condition” now. make games interactive and make interesting decks instead of the lazy, unimaginative i win cards that plague hearthstone now.
where did i say the game was rigged? i said matchmaking was. and MMR is the definition of rigged you genius. they do both MMR and matchmake deepening on your deck. this is for F2p. im guessing p2w is different but the majority of players are f2p which is why standard is dead.
this would 100% guarantee to make money. those 3 problems are why the majority of players have quit the game. you can stick your head in the sand and deny the facts, but standard hearthstone is basically dead now.
Games have all players on equall footing,to create a competitive environment (this doesnt mean it has to be free,just to be clear. Starcraft is a game,everyone is on equall footing playing the same game).
HS does not have this so HS is not a game. People playing HS are also not gamers. I am not sure what they should be called but i guess consumers is the correct description.
Battlegrounds can still be called a game,even though you have to pay to get 4 hero options. It is a reasonable price and after paying once there is no option to spend more to get more advantages.
why are top players playing noobs in bronze rank? and top players makes a small % of players. so if the matchmaking isnt rigged things should even out. and if its not rigged the top players should skate through the noob ranks and not be playing any noobs.
or am i just talking to a bot/shill. ?
MMR only insures the matchmaking is further rigged. its an artificial gate that is literally only used to rigged the matchmaking even further. standard is about dead and all the shills bots can do is spout out the same nonsense. youre game is dead and you arent helping it by spreading propaganda/nonsense
have you ever seen the so called forumula for “MMR”. its an absolute joke and they have yet to even get much details about it. again, why on earth wout MMR matter when its not that hard to get out of noob ranks. if you make it diamond then why on earth do you need mmr? and in things like arena it rigged it even further where the decks are even more imbalanced
The game tries to match you against those that have similar ratings as you as fast as it can, expanding the range a bit if it would take too long, thus making sure your opponents are about your level.
The star rank system is the one that doesn’t work well. I’m a high legend skill player. When I don’t get the 11 star bonus on a month, my start of month games are challenging until I get to diamond 5, where the games start being matched based on my rank instead of my MMR, and my opponent skill drops off considerably.
The star rankings don’t do a good job at separating skill. There aren’t enough ranks, and win streak bonuses along with rank floors condense everyone into the same narrow bands.
MMR is the well built matchmaking system. The star system is the one they should delete.
f2p players arent spending money on it when they could be if the game wasnt rigged and lame. i have no problem with them making money. but when the casino is rigged why play there? the problems are easily fixable and im dumbfounded why they dont send they losing millions and these companies apparently only care about money
It would be ridiculously bad. The top 1% will have to play the 99% that is worse than them, instead of matching amongst themselves. The top 25% will have the bottom 75% to fight besides themselves.
Mostly you would be playing someone worse than you of you’re good, or straight better than you, if you’re bad
The best part of this thread is where the OP wants to get rid of MMR but then turns around and complains about top players playing against noobs in bronze rank.
MMR has just been a tried and true method for placing people based on their skill.
The system works really well, and people generally don’t like it because it places them where their skill level is and when they reach their skill level they end up feeling “stuck” because that’s where their skill caps out at. Going beyond that feels harder and harder and doesn’t start to feel as fun.
So there’s not a better system based on placing people where they belong, but there’s a better system in placing people to make them enjoy the game more and that’s by doing the very thing people don’t want - rigging the game.
You spend money? We give you more rank and you’re happy.
So MMR is a great system.
Rigged games is a bad system that makes people happy by giving them what they want but ironically is the system people think they’re in when they are in an MMR system.
Ultimately, people want to believe they are better than they are but don’t want the system to rig it so it feels that way.
Well, I played chess for years and players here tell me that MMR is based on elo ratings.
Perhaps in the loosest sense.
I have never seen matching like this system produces in Chess.