Guild Wars 2

So, got me some time today and tuned in to watch Sind’s today VOD… first match and its Misha, Sind, Obindo and Thijsken against 5 randoms.

After the MM fiasco last season, I thought it would be improved.

I guess I’m sitting this one out.

What are they supposed to do? Track ESL players and make sure they’re not on the same team?

The season launched not even 2 days ago, it’s obvious the ratings aren’t yet settled… Looking at the leaderboard, i’m guessing a lot of top players from the previous season have yet to finish their placement matches.

Don’t blame matchmaking for your lack of common sense.

Ruru.1302:

What are they supposed to do? Track ESL players and make sure they’re not on the same team?

Well, going with the assumption that all the players in this match have a rating that properly reflects their skill, the matchmaker should do a better job of balancing out the two teams instead of placing all the higher rated players on one team on lower rated players on the other.

However, this is the start of the season and some people may be on an alt account, who knows? Maybe for whatever reason those random players are rated too high and the matchmaker thought it would be a good match? Without knowing the ratings of the players in the match, there is know way we can tell if this is the matchmaker failing at its job or if there are unknown variables that prevented the matchmaker from properly doing its job.

Am I the only one who winds up in a match against esl players and am like “wow cool I don’t care if I’m going to lose this match the fact that I’m in this game must mean I’m improving”

And then there are some people who see those names and are just like “screw this I’ll be on the pooper”