Devs accepted there are cases the matchmaking system might include first time players for Stadium to play in high tiers with veteran or well experienced players players. For people who have dedicate some time on Stadium, this happens quite regularly actually. In my case it happens in Pro tier games and as other people said, in higher tiers too.
So they are not protecting these first time players nor do they do anything for the system to not let that happen and it has been almost 4 months already. We did not even get an urgent midseason update both for the current and the previous season either just like it used to happen with OW1.
For the fix starting season 18 they are saying that we will have to win 10 games in the new edition of unranked Stadium (Quick Play Stadium) to unlock ther ranked version of Stadium but my guess is this will not fix the main core issues since even if novice players win 10 Stadium games then they might end up playing against in high tier games…once again!
Of course another thing that does not make sense is why veteran and older players who have already proven themselves have to win 10 games to even try ranked Stadium next season…You cannot fix something when you destroy something else.
Literally today we had a first time player who kept shooting in the air all the time and there was not another person in both teams that was new.
In a recent tweet the main OW account suggested that you get matched with people of similar MMR as provided in the link down below. Yet that is not true at all.
There are times where the community is angry for whatever reason and there is always the benefit of the doubt, there are times that in the end we know the devs know what they are doing even if the community is letdown…but in this case it is the first time that it is 100% their fault. I do not recall myself having seen anything so poorly implemeneted in terms of matchmaking in OW.
So please respect your players.
Link:
-ttps://x.com/PlayOverwatch/status/1953169205513093311-