I don’t know how the algorithm works for QM, but winning maybe 5 games out of 50 upon return is so demoralizing that I will probably just delete the game. QM isn’t even trying to do the 50/50 anymore. It seems programmed to just rip the souls of of players.
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You cant really expect to take a one year break and still be as good you were before.
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there’s a few things to keep in mind with firefly:
- they lie and give misleading context.
- they don’t want to learn anything.
- they’ve been complaining about the same thing for years on end.
- they don’t have a head for numbers.
It’s not that they’ve gotten ‘worse’, clearly it is the “game” that did despite the time they spend away, refusing to read any of the replies they get, and believing debunked tin-foil theories to try to overcompensate.
https://www.heroesprofile.com/Player/Firefly63/5592329/1/Match/History
The span between march and august isn’t a year 
Yea, OP apparently didn’t play in 2023 – supported by the lack of complaints in their post history – but I imagine they keep coming back around to this game because they do the same thing in all their other games: refuse to learn and improve, demonstrate a middling ability and pretend all the rest of the universe is at fault instead.
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That it’s named Quick Match indicates that is matching you, not based on some performance rating, but on how quickly it can get you into a game.
If you are looking for performance matching you can try Storm League.
That said, if you are going to queue up for Quick Match you have to be prepared for crazy games and weird comps. It’s a different style of play and you need to adapt to that reality. Once you do, you will find that the game is a lot less stale then the cookie cutter Storm League.
I player about 5 games a week. Some weeks are better than others for sure. And I have had my share of losing streaks. Even still, my overall win rate is above 50%. On some heroes is above 60%.
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Not completely true. QM does use MMR to match players, it tries to balance fast queue times and player skill by using MMR averaging so the players on both teams, on paper, are “balanced.”
QBW3, though, got to the heart of this matter, the OP shouldn’t have the expectation of playing at the same skill they were, after a year-long break.
The quality of the people playing has gone down significantly, so yeah it’s tougher than it has been.
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“I played , and I lost my games, so the game is bad.”
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Ya know, I got a shovel to dig up my old xbox–had to use the same shovel to drive off some old dude who kept screaming ‘It belongs in a museum!’–to try and get it to work.
Something wasn’t right, so I bribed a mouse to go in and fix the wires. Screen flickers, but we’re gold. Controller whispers in some weird language but it works to. Rubber coating on cables is exposed. Might be a fire hazard. Dunno and don’t care.
Cracked my fingers, threw in Halo, and cranked that bad boy all the way up to Legendary difficulty. Back in my day I slept on that difficulty so I knew deep in my soul that I was still able to live up to Master Chief’s mythical skills.
A grunt mugged me as soon as I walked out the door. Died on the spot.
Gave the xbox to the old guy, fired the mouse, and wrote a scathing email to Microsoft.
0/10. First Halo sucks. Worst experience of my life.
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Reminds me of videos I have seen on YT with people who turn on thier old X-Box to find out every friends they had have been offline for 8 years. Then you have that one who suddenly comes online and they forgot who you are.
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Meanwhile, the last time this guy was online was before Motley Crue debuted.
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This guy sounds so mad he had to debunk firefly’s entire existence like if it was a conspiracy theory 
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What I ‘sound’ like smells like more of your narrative conjecture where you prefer to disregard what was actually written and toss in something closer to the opposite of the actual content. Again.
OP has 200 topics made, most of them the same QM complaints that they’ve been making for over 6 years. There are dozens of instances of people trying to explain QM to them, and yet they still use the same opener:
When they’re not overtly complaining about Qm, then they do post conspiracy theories about blizzard games instead. So, if at some point they decide to look past their own nose to complain, it helps if someone is there to decry bad information and offer potential solutions to problems they are experiencing.
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Watch on the bottom side of the screen while searching a match. If it switches to “Extended Search” after some time you will be most likely placed in absolutely unfun rainbow lobbies where you face smurfs (the game doesn’t have any detection), real new players or potatoes who try to learn Lili since 2000 ingame ranks.
The matchmaking combined with the nature of a MOBA game make it to an not enjoyable experience in most cases. Since there are no developers left (only stat number engineers) Blizzard wants you to hit you that uninstall button.
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Well, you almost posted something useful, but decided to face-plant into the mud instead.
As aubergine pointed out, QM goes into “extended search” if it cannot quickly fill suitable role/teams/mmr and loosens the matching rules. One of the ways a player can potentially ‘improve’ their pug experiences is to cancel their match queue if it goes into “extended search” and start it over so their matching retains the intended ruleset and may deviate some unwanted qualities in your games.
So there’s the magical tip that should have been shared.
However, matching is just a sorting tool and it can’t magically create tanks and healers that aren’t in the queue.
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QM is going to feel worse as time goes on simply because fewer people will be playing, and the matchmaker will not be able to do its job properly. Take another “break” for a “year”, and it’ll be much worse than it is now.
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Yeah it’s super rough now so good luck to you.
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