I know blizzard is a small indie company but surely something can be done to fix match making. The game at the core is fun but the coin flip ranked games ruin it. How can a company like blizzard fail this hard for this long
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Its always been like this, every single matchmaker is like this, if you want real legit games you have to have a consistent team of 5 who play exclusively other premades of 5.
Until then you are stuck with a dice roll matchmaker where your SR is actually just indicative of luck. Enjoy the ride and stop caring so much about a fictional number.
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Troll blizzard shill response tbh, ive played games that do much better than this. saying its always been like this is no excuse to not make it better and more enjoyable
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They dangle a carrot in your face telling you if you win 5 games before losing 15 that you will rank up. I went 5-8 and de-ranked, and someone else I know went 5-0 and de-ranked.
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In OW1,Blizzard actually had good matchmaking. I was ALWAYS in matches from mid Silver to Plat. I didn’t get Bronze or Diamond in QP or Competitive. Smurfs yes but that was all. Blizzard DOES KNOW how to write a matchmaking program. They just just aren’t going to. They want new players mixed in with top skill to introduce skins to entice new players to buy. Apparently this is actually information in their copywriter or something. I didn’t believe it until someone else showed me the actual patent or copywriter. Matchmaking keeps new players from seeing purchase able skins. 
I’m P3, just went 5-0. Rated higher than 99% of players in my rank. I got P3. Read that again.
You need to read it again
You’re higher than 99% of other p3 players. In other words, you’re high p3, almost p2. The new system is less granular so it is displayed this way.
On the old system you’d be really high 2700, almost 2800.
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So I need to rate 100% above other players?
I rated 8% above players in P5 and stayed P5…not sure that makes sense either.
No they didnt…
They never said anything that even hinted at that
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No, you need to be rated higher than 100% of players in a rank.
Being 100% than players and better than 100% of players are completely different
Then what the heck are they saying? What’s the purpose of the 5/15 thing at all then?
less transparency is what they are going for.
its an awful design, but its a different issue.
thinking that winning 5 before you lose 15 results in a rank up is just sheer stupidity on your part.
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also it absolutely has NOT been ‘‘always like this’’, i have played since day one and the rollover to OW2 there as been a drastic change in quality of the matchmaking and quality of the games in general… and it isnt for the better. it is getting worse each season.
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It’s because some people are still the wrong rank, so when they are on your team they go negative and you get steamrolled or viseversa.
Blizzard need to wake up and fire the management and start fresh.
I would say the matchmaking is the worst it’s ever been. What shocks me the most is season after season it never gets fixed. How many players have to quit before they fire the management!!
They could literally just revert back to OW1 matchmaking, and MM would instantly be better. Without doing anything else.
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it was NOT like this in OW1. The matchmaker did a much better job of providing fairer matches, even though it was not perfect. but…it was much better than this garbage.
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The matchmaking is fine. The main problem: too many players in higher elo ruin the game in lower elo on alt account. (GM widow dominating in diamond, Unranked to GM and Bronze to GM “challenge”)
Just had a Lucio do that. More damage than their tank.
70% of games are blowouts. Bliz can do better.
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