This is why the player experience is an absolute trash

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You are never playing, not with, nor against, players from a similar rank to yours

So its all the same

You can have Silvers or Top200s on your team, or Bronze and Masters on the enemy

It doesn´t matter

And because there is no reference for skill, or criteria for matching people on the same lobby, is that the game is always going to fail, and nose dive its player base

Lets see tomorrow´s news on yet another Fine Tune or Fix, for the matchmaking; yet again, on another patch, for a new season, after 8 years

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Don’t forget another big factor in way this game sucks now… The community overall.

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True, though that’s kinda the case with every unranked PVP mode I’ve ever played I think.

Halo, MR, competitive Pokemon (lol)

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Wait I thought they had SBMM MMR that everyone complained about that “unfairly” aimed for 1.0 W:L… Which is it, forums? Lmao

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I couldn´t care any less about the community.
No offense. But I care way more about what happens, In the game

And if someone doesn´t like toxicity or whatever, there are quite a hefty amount of tools available for the players, to take action on this matters

You got a report system, avoid slots; you can block, and even silence, single, or All voice and chat activity during game

Even the community mangers on the forums take care of any disruptive behaviour

And oh, on that one

disruptive behaviour

we also have Penalties for trash games

So, if the matches weren´t a live representation of a sewer pouring water in middle of the street, why would we need all this tools? All the effort and resources on all this menu options?

Because all I see are mini ghettos, everywhere

Even new accounts are completely shut down from all interaction with other players; BY DEFAULT

So, no. It is not the community

It is a mindset, from within the Development team, that not only avails this behaviour, but also acknowledge its results, and does nothing but abusing the players expectations with the hype of new announcements

It is a sad reality across the board in the whole industry

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You do understand that there’s no game without a community, right?

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I am aware of that

It is quite clear that games like Fortnite, League or Counter Strike, are what they are, thanks to the community

And Overwatch is no exception to this rule. This game would be a manual on how to prevent colossal disasters if it wasn´t for the community

But my concern leans more towards the ingame experience

And having 50% stomps, or speedruns, for games that end in 4… on 10mins lenght maps, doesn´t qualify as a decent experience

But in the more practical and graphical sense, just like my last game, nothing speaks more about the state of Overwatch, as Alt F4 midgame

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they won fix it i think they even know the game is dying like there are many changes they need to make that will never go into place

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Match making has been “Crap tastic” for years now.

They dont even want to remotely work with it because it requires “work”.

Something they seam to not want to do… you know… Because designing heroes and costumes is much easier.

Match maker requires math and databases. Which is something nobody wants to do this day in age.

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This. This is why widow can feel like such a crapshoot. I play every match expecting to be destroyed. I’m surprised when I actually do well. How can I improve when I’m not even certain of my own skill relative to my opponents on a given match?

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That could be a title for an entire new thread

Yestserday I was already at my limits because of neverending garbage games, and this Doomfist lost us a match from the very start

Like, the guy was feeding non stop; playing like an absolute moron.
1v5ing everyone, when not just ignoring enemies in the backline

And because I obviously snapped at the end of the match, I told him on chat… go back to Rivals

But after avoiding that scrub, right next I see his profile… and it turns out to be a Top200 Tank. On Doomfist. On current season

And this happens because Team4 is so smart, that think everyone else is unbelievably stupid, that we don´t know they keep inflating player ranks, so they can fit on certain matches, as a: Safety Card. For increasing the odds on the result of a game; for one side or the other

If you ask me, I don´t even want to see uploaded games from streamers anymore.
Because not only I can see the correct plays, but I can also predict the dumbest ones.
And yet, they don´t get penalized for it on their ranks.

And many of them are incredibly talented players, but I don´t want to see 1v4 against people that can´t even tell from which direction they are being attacked. Because they don´t even react to anything that is happening mid fight

I said this a million times. The only place where you can actually measure a single player and a team skill, is in:

  • Tournaments
  • Professional competitions
  • and Private games

Ranked or the Competitive ladder… is just there to keep the game mode and players rolling

As for your own ability, you will know how´s your performance from simply contrasting matches that you had 6 months ago. Or even years

KarQ was perfectly clear. His Top500 games from Season 3 back in OW1, look like Plat in today´s gameplay

And that´s his very own evolution what he´s seeing right there

Same happens to everyone else

Go watch any old clip you have, and you´ll have a point for comparison

And watching replays is one of the best things you can do.
Not only you´ll start seeing things differently in future games, but what you actually thought it was, during that specific match

Maybe its just an Okey play.
Maybe a What a Play, play.
… maybe a Meh, or a Lets not talk about it play.
Or my personal favorite, the I recall that one being a lot cooler than what it actually looks like xD

You can learn from anything, and in time, improve with everything

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That’s what you get when you want to do QP

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That´s not the point

The problem with QuickPlay, is the same problem with Comp

And that´s why we have all sorts of additions, like Drives? 6 days before the end of a season?

… anyways. To make people play Comp

Because everyone knows its trash.
And smells just like QuickPlay

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i dont understand what you mean by this?

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you think it is bad now, wait til the perk system drops…this game is going to be an actual mess.

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