SO, SO tired of your matchmaking

Jstn Bbr··3 votes·912 views

I don't know what your logic is. If you can't balance anything, I guess you play "best of 10" with match balance by giving us 1 game that is total steamroll for us, 5 games where we get steamrolled, and 4 games in the middle to "balance it all out".

I am so sick and tired of seeing things like:

-solo Q, my entire team is all solo Q, level X or bronze or whatever, VS. a 4-man premade with a plat+ carry. Fun, so fun. -solo Q over and over with a "balanced" team of iron/bronze vs. 2+ people high silver/gold. -solo Q, everyone is bronze except enemy team has that one guy sneaking in on platinum to teach his buddies "how to play"

Do you know why this game is toxic? It's because you are absolutely terrible and unconcerned with matchmaking. The games, 49% or more of them, are completely decided in the lobby. But we get to spend 30+ minutes tryharding and being killfarmed so 20% of the population clever enough to outsmart your "ban everything that says stuff we don't like instantly" system can have the time of their life over and over and over and over in games that are only fun for them.

These accounts deserve to be banned. Period. And since there's a lot of logic as to why that's not a thing, then the next best thing is something like being able to quit a game with no punishment after some kind of trigger. What kind of trigger?

-20 kill difference between teams -5 objectives down in 7 minutes -someone AFK for 5minutes -someone on enemy team with 10+ kills in 10 minutes

Basically anything that makes the game a guaranteed-unless-thrown win needs to just be done ASAP. Kill the incentive for these players to ruin games over and over and over and over and over and over.

It's literally like signing up to push papers in the airforce, get on the bus, and find out (a) you're actually in the marines, and (b) you'll be trained to peel potatoes only, but (c) you're going to be put in the most dangerous conflict the world has ever seen against an elite enemy, (d) and you better be happy with it and say nothing or get banned by some software.

All-the-while, everyone flaming everything because everyone is mad because they know what they should be doing at their level of play, but they don't realize they've been duped by your ABSOLUTE BS MATCHMAKING WITH ZERO FIRE ESCAPES.

Fix your fkn game.

11 Comments

Jstn Bbr2 votes

And you can downvote this to oblivion, but that's legit how matchmaking works in this game. At least for the lower 50% of players. I am guessing downvoters are the enemy team this post talks about.

Shmeeve1 votes

You do realize the reply section exists right?

Jstn Bbr1 votes

Not everything is about you Lord Apex. I replied to your comment when I saw it. This comment had nothing to do with you, nor was your comment known when this comment was being made. But hey, you do you. I am sure you had a point somewhere here.

Shmeeve1 votes

sorry it was put in after I put in a comment so I thought it was supposed to be a reply to mine.

Jstn Bbr1 votes

Nope.

summoner 7

Shmeeve1 votes

Holy crap more than 10 downvotes in only 6 minutes, that's a record.

Jstn Bbr2 votes

Only people who really pay attention to these forums are the people who like the game as it is because it works to their advantage, and the people who are overly frustrated with the state of things. Downvoters act like this doesn't happen so much. If it was one in 10 games, fine. Even 2 in ten. But it's pretty much half the games at some level. Perhaps that changes over a certain point.

But hey, thanks for the useful comment! Enjoy your upvotes.

Shmeeve1 votes
Jstn Bbr1 votes

summoner 4

Kai Guy1 votes

Normal is not held to a high standard. Understand and accept this its not meant to be a strictly competitive que so it allows for mismatches outside of what MM in ranked would consider fair.

Its clear that you are not talking about ranked because there is no such thing as a 4 man premade in any ranked Que. You cant have an account in "Plat" que with bronze in ranked as well.

Incase your unaware of Moba history. Matchmaker is a blessing and your fucking lucky to have it. Custom games used to be the only way to play Allstars back in the day and any one could use a Name spoofer to evade Ban list programs with an established Elo rateing on them.
You think smurfing is bad in league? Assholes used to make "dota allstars noobs only" Matches and fill their team with Clan mates to pub stomp for entertainment.

Turns out that if you have 0 effort for matchmaker then the average game quality is awful… But hey that did not stop the gameplay from being enjoyable enough to become popular.

Jstn Bbr1 votes

You seem to make some poignant points, albeit in an aggressive and unfortunate way. It also seems ignorant of the fact that MMR is MMR, regardless of what pipe you shove it into. My point remains: if you're going to allow games like this to exist, do us all a favor and let people know or be able to realize they were screwed in the lobby, and let them end the game ASAP so they can end up in one more their level of play.

An Iron4 player has no business being in several matches against Plat+ players who subsequently abuse their standing to killfarm for the lulz and drag the game out. And that type of player is more toxic imo.

BTW, since you only seem to seek out and comment on matchmaking posts, have only ever been gold+ on this account, I'll state the obvious: you're clearly a beneficiary of the system. Just calling that out so you don't get to feel like you did anything here other than fanboi your trolling gameplay mentality.

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