I can’t honestly believe that Anet believes this is true “this means that you’ll generally get paired with and against players in your division that are of similar skill levels.”
or
aside from this, we have our matchmaker. This is not part of the actual Glicko algorithm, but instead uses Glicko ratings along with ladder position and other metrics in a way that attempts to make fair matches. The way it does this can be seen on the wiki. While each team average is attempted to be balanced, we still don’t want the spread on each team to be large either.
I have been stuck in tier 4 sapphire on this account for more than two weeks. Dozens and dozens of matches and I keep getting stuck with the same AWFUL ‘teammates’.
People who don’t speak English (the server language).
People who DC.
Please who have no idea how to capture and hold points.
people who are using builds apparently picked out of a hat-including a staff guardian build last week.
Don’t even get me started on the number of fail warriors and thieves that have been teammates.
Anet KNOWS that people are abusing the system and has apparently done NOTHING to change it except for promises that may or may not make a difference in season two.
If you are claiming that the matchmaker is working ‘as designed’, then your design is an utter failure, if the goal is to allow reasonably talented players to progress through tiers using a solo queue. If you are conceding that the matchmaker is horrendously broken-admit it and remove tiers and the pvp tickets from the legendary backpacks.
PS. I was going to include the developer quote that we should report cheaters for additional amusement. However, it is not longer available-which is plenty amusing by itself.
