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First, I want to congrats Blizz for making an awesome game. It truly is amazing and probably one of my all time favs period. I’m sure its not easy to make a game this good and maybe you guys are short on money or people sometimes. I also played WOW for about 5 years and I probably have logged several hundred hours of OW play.
There is obviously a big problem with competitive ranking and matchmaking. I know some people like to deny it but its pretty obvious something is wrong with the algorithm. Let me try to keep this simple.
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Is all of competitive matchmaking from bronze up to GM based on a single algorithm or are their separate algorithms for each tier? I really think a single algorithm for all of competitive matchmaking would hurt the game quite a bit because each tier or maybe group of tiers should have its own unique mm algorithm that is tailored for them.
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We have heard from the developers that the goal of the matchmaking algorithm is NOT to get games to 50% WL. However, the goal of matchmaking is to try and have fair and close games as much as possible. Because the WL rate is around 50% it has been considered somewhat of a success. But I see a big problem here. Winners are not really rewarded and losers are not really punished in terms of moving up and down the tier system. It creates an system that is very difficult to climb for people who are playing below their actual tier because they are grouped with people who are worse to create fair matches. In other words… If the matchmaking wasn’t so intent on making fair matches… Ultimately the better players would rise faster and the worse players would fall faster automatically creating even matchups within the tiers. An algorithm that tries to create fair matches actually slows down this natural process and makes good players become extremely frustrated. Does this make sense to anyone?
Sorry I know this is terribly written but I don’t feel like spending an hour on this. Please give me some well thoughout feedback.
TLDR
MM algorithm should NOT try to create fair matches because it slows down the natural process of good players rising and bad players falling that would automatically create even tiers and fair matches in the end.
It’s like putting your dirty hands on something that doesn’t need to be touched. It’s like fusion food that doesn’t need to be fusion. It’s like adding pineapple to pizza. Anyone follow? ( I actually don’t mind Hawaiian pizza just sayin…)
My Solution: The MM system should just match people in the same tier together WITHOUT doing ANYTHING more. Ultimately, the matches will become really really fair. Much more than it is now.