Okay let’s say it takes me over one hundred games to reach diamond from gold. Let’s say I will never be better than diamond.
I am not smurfing. I can only play less than ten games a week due to real life obligations.
Although, if you placed me in a diamond game. I could easily pull my weight and then some. Which is definitely possible.
This is not my rank just an example.
I knew a plat player who played with us in masters tournaments. he played more pick up.games then he played ranked. His skill was master level. Just his rank did not show that.
How is it supposed to judge that though? It can only compare you against the players you play against. So starting in gold it can assume you did well against gold players but what’s to say that isn’t just a hot streak? It can bump you up bit by bit to see how you do but it can’t just look at 10-20 games and go “Yep diamond” if it’s only seen you against gold and maybe plat.
People already complain about boosted players and/or people placed higher than they should be. Doing anything like what you suggested will only make that more frequent since it’s so easy to tread water and say “the rest of my team didn’t do enough” especially as support but it’s true for every role.
The point is the game can have you outside of your skill level.
That and playing pick up games and joining tournaments will always mean more than your rank. You will improve much faster and learn the correct way to play the game
Last time I placed this was in open q before role q existed on a new account I was a low diamond Lucio. I one tricked Lucio and placed masters.
My last two placements where low masters matches. I held my own just fine and even did beyond that. The game probably placed me too high I can’t be sure. It just assumed because I won nine out of ten placements.
Although I was scrimming against masters teams three days a week. Maybe I just didn’t play enough ranked to be where I should of been.
Also theres so much to read but it seems to be described as being able to apply to multiple multiplayer games from the bit I have read so far.
ever wonder why those low level accounts are always in your games ??
well there’s the reason players
the worse new player gets to see u with your cool borders, and skins
and it’s meant to keep the other player playing and putting more time into wanting those skins i.e. lootbox purchases
just how mmr puts cold players on your team to make the grind artificially longer
and to keep you the player doing that indeed playing
JK is less of a game dev and more a corporate liaison and pr rep for ATVI. If he wants to keep his job, 9/10 times what he says is not what he understands.
It really does. Just not something “gamers” will see since most of that self-identifying demographic isn’t concerned with technicalities. There are several patents. In-house they call it SM’s matchmaking, because it was Scott that backed most of the design and pushed for it to be like this. And from the leaked discord convos it sounded like it was Scott who refused a reset/reseason several times.
Patents are designed to be novel, generic and readily applicable. You want to claim out as much ip territory as you can so you can use it everywhere, enforce it everywhere, and potentially license it everywhere.
They absolutely design for engagement. And they go the extra mile for accessibility and inclusion. There are a couple of other patents on DDA (dynamic difficulty adjustment) which is a whole other level of rigging. DDA basically means +/- passives (like damage, healing output, hitbox sizes, ult charge %). It kicks in mid-match to swing fights and smooth out matchmaker mistakes.
