So everyone knows at this point that matchmaking is completely awful, and this “handicapping” or broken, rigged, whatever you want to call it and whatever it is type of matchmaking is used in every game.
So my question is how did it end up in most every game? Is there some kind of school that teaches how matchmaking will be made? I’m not talking about coding school, I’m talking some sort of school that teaches coders how to create the titan submarine matchmaking that we have right now in all these games.
Is there some kind of underlying code that every game manufacturer uses in each game which controls the handicapping and then they hire interns to come in and tweak it a little bit or does each game entirely have its own coding?
There must be some kind of company or process that drives all of these matchmakers to be the same awful way, what is it?
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I think it’s just hype for AI. New tools so everyone thinks they can use AI and do some “better” matchmaking.
But it’s like with wars, first world war happend because some countries thought they have technlology, better weapons and so on so lets go into war and win but in reality there was no winners only ded bodies, then technology improved again and same thing happend, lets go to war because we can easily win… only ded bodies again.
Same is here, we have AI lets make some nice matchmaker… but like in war no matter what technology you have simple peace will always be best option.
Same here, no matter what kind of AI you have simple solution like making random match within skill range will always work best and be fair for everyone.
But we will count bodies i guess.
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Absolutely, this is the type of matchmaking system that was in place while gaming kept soaring to new all time popularity levels, then someone came along and said “let’s change it.” I just don’t know how all the gaming companies collectively decided to start doing it unless it’s just an industry “best practice” (worst practice).
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They all are attempting to use dark psychology to get you to spend money or just keep playing in general. Bring back 80$ games and stop the BS
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I believe somewhere in one of their patents it is stated that “fair matchmaking is not optimal for maximum engagement.” But this is a shortsighted approach that too many companies take without consideration for longevity.
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Marketing and corporate group think.
Well, like someone above said. Same rank game. Thats all it has to do. Instead the developers decided on this. Its flawed and this is something too intricate for the worst branch of engineering to even handle making.