Gave this game a chance after 8 years, played some games back then was lvl 200.
Got a friend, quued up. 12 games lose streak because the matchmaking is so incredible bad.
Our team is always full of fresh installed people who are under lvl 30 with an combined lvl of like 300 while the enemy team got people with lvl 1000+ and usually add up to 500 - 4000.
How on earth is this even remotly balanced?
And 50% of the games the enemy team has 1-2 smurfs one trick sub humans who create new accounts to play 1 hero only for 200 games in a row
Also, you should not be surprised to lose a lof of games if you havenât played in years. I think you just need more practice. Thereâs no way you can be good at the game after not playing for that long. Itâs not the same game.
(The game does not to do matchmaking around levels. A player could have gained lvl 1000 by playing vs A.I. You are matched solely based on MMR)
games match based on a hidden âmatch making ratingâ (mmr) and not based on account levels.
Since you havenât played in 8 years, youâre going to have a high âuncertaintyâ where the game doesnât know where to match you.
MMR changes with wins and loses, so while you night see a lvl 3000 account, that doesnât indicate their ability at the game.
Over these 8 years, a ton of players complain about matching and it doesnât ever occur to them that jumping right into pvp modes is going to give them a bad time regardless of the genre.
Find a game that has pvp, and youâll find sob stories, like your own, that blame the matchmaking instead of their end.
If I hadnât played this game for 8 years, even playing only Li LI, Iâd expect many losses.
You arenât completely wrong about the matchmaker. Depending on the region, MM can be very spotty. The friend you said you queued up with, is their account high level? If it is, your grouping will override any attempt at putting you in the new player queue, so you can get a mix of account levels on both sides.
I have a couple of friends with accounts in the 200âs and when they group solo they are often matched with and against veteran accounts, simply because in many regions, there arenât enough active players to funnel into the new player queue.
As you also noted, even when newish accounts are strictly matched with new accounts, the MM canât account for smurfs, so that can further ruin the experience for players who are genuinely new to Hots.
If Blizz doesnât want to (or canât) address smurfing, I think the new player queue should be scrapped and simply match players on MMR alone. It wonât be perfect either, but the couple of friends I have who are new, make the same complaints regarding MM as you do.
As an aside, Iâd suggest playing some ARAM games, or VS AI games, to get back into your groove, jumping into QM after not playing for many years, is an invitation for many of the problems youâve touched on.
Iâm not sure if youâre aware, but âshillsâ didnât cancel HGC, didnât cancel Heroes Dorm, and didnât dissolve Team 1. The company took a choice in cutting costs in a slump of content to pad investment reports; HotS wasnât alone in that choice, and other properties of suffered from similarly poor leadership that looked for scapegoats for stock options.
The suits havenât cared whats on the forums, let alone the âshillsâ that youâre spouting. Considering itâs been more than 8 years, Iâd have thought youâd have outgrown being scared of boogie-man stories.
Yeah, itâs always sad when people canât well, read. I canât recall a single forum regular saying they like Blizzard, let alone love Blizzard or defend it.
Most people post here because they like Hots, the game, not Blizzard the evil company.
As for killing the game, itâs hilarious anyone thinks a very small group of forum regulars had any sway over where Hots finds itself today.
Frankly, if you have never spent real money on Hots, or watched the HGC, it could be argued that you helped to kill Hots. Thatâs a deliberately oversimplified reason for the death of Hots, which has at least as much value as your wild and odd speculations.
