Guild Wars 2

Okay, I’ve had it.

What the kitten is wrong with matchmaking? Who would ever think that getting 10+ game losing streaks would be considered a fun feature of a competitive video game? (I’m at 12 losses so far that the picture can’t capture)

Why do I bother playing this anymore?

If I soloqueue, I’ll get results like the picture I linked below.

I only ever get a modicum of success if I have 3-5 people with me on TS with good pugs and a not amazing enemy team.

I’m not having fun, and I don’t know why I continue to soloqueue and get upset and get salty and get kittened when I have finals to study for.

If MMR controls the predicted outcome of a match, why does it make things like 10+ losing streaks? Do you want people to stop playing the game? Thats not FUN. A losing streak shouldn’t last this long. It should make it your wins and losses go back and forth and NEVER should a streak last for more than 5 games for losing. Its utterly demoralizing, it makes you feel like you’re the kittentiest player when you have nearly 4K games total and a good amount of experience and intimate knowledge of rotations and game mechanics, and I just don’t know how to deal with this anymore, because I’M NOT HAVING FUN as a soloqueuer.

On top of that, so many of the people I meet in soloque are just rude and mean and angry. They blame whoever they see that messes up or has the lowest points because they can’t accept the fact that they got outplayed. I’ve been called “noob engi” or a “kittening scrub thats throwing the game” or a “useless necro” for being unable to escape a 1v2, and all this toxicity and rudeness coupled with my losing streak is ruining the kitten game for me, which is SUCH a shame.

Okay, I know that sounds really angry, and it is, because I’m angry. But I need to express this and try to find some way to move on and find a way to have fun with the game. Or else I might as well just quit.

10 consecutive losses? DANG, SON!

I was 0-9 before my first ranked win. The match-ups are insane. And yes, sometimes it was just that I wasn’t doing as well as my opponents in 1v1, but other times I was able to hold out quite well 1v2 and still the rest of my team couldn’t deal with their own points. Even that last one was closer to losing than any of my previous matches were closer to winning, it came down to about 500-450 or so, when prior matches were more like 500-250 or worse.

I finally won a game after 14 (possibly more, not sure) losses. After that I was just like kitten it, I need to stop before I develop hypertension.

I Don’t know why these matches were so bad. I’m better at necro than engi but still, marauder engi is strong enough to 1v1 most things.

My best guess is that my teams just couldn’t win teamfights due to countercomp or failure to spam AoE CC first or couldn’t rotate properly, so even if they did win teamfights we’d be getting outnumbered or back capped somewhere else. When I just tried to watch home and more it seemed to help slightly, but yeah.

I think my longest losing streak was 7 games, then won 5 in a row to secure a division (thank jebuz). Of course right after that went on a 4-5 losing streak again. I’m ok with unpredictability of who you get into the game with. What I’m not ok with is who the game matches you up against. At the moment I’m having to fight pre-mades who are 2 divisions above me (I’m at sapphire, got there with solo Q so it’s possible).

If I really have to take a beating so those 2 divisions above me can advance, then the game should be smart enough to not deduct pips from me. Losing pips due to impossible matches are the worst part about losing.

I would hazard the guess that one of two things occurs as far as MMR movement goes:
1) It’s fairly slow – because, unless I’m mistaken, the MMR is based solely on win/loss, not the size of it, it shifts very slowly
2) It doesn’t update instantly – it can take some time/games to see any actual changes based on the wins/losses you’ve had

In either event, it means that you tend towards streaks – varying between groups of games that you win easily and groups of games against extremely stiff opposition. Part of the problem however is the relatively small playerbase, particularly when you factor in Divisions and that it seems that you won’t get matched up with people too far away from your divisional position, even if your MMR is actually on par (although with that said, you can seemingly get around that cut-off by duoing with a friend in a lower Division). It’s not immediately clear which Division you’re in, but if you’ve hit a decent Sapphire tier, I’d guess that that’s actually a sizable chunk of the problem you’re experiencing as whilst it seems you won’t see opposition much higher/lower than your tier, if there aren’t enough opponents within a reasonable range of your MMR, you’re just going to get matched up with what’s there. Up to and including, players that are significantly more skilled and full premades.

Probably the best thing I could say in mitigation at this point in time is that from the comments posted towards the end of the week, it does seem like this problem is being actively monitored and they will look to come up with some solutions. We may well not see any changes before the end of this (fairly short) season though.

To keep my sanity, I usually quit after 5 straight losses.

But that’s ridiculous that you had to endure 14 losses before 1 win. Hopefully you get a nice winning streak this time around

nearlight.3064:

I finally won a game after 14 (possibly more, not sure) losses. After that I was just like kitten it, I need to stop before I develop hypertension.

I Don’t know why these matches were so bad. I’m better at necro than engi but still, marauder engi is strong enough to 1v1 most things.

My best guess is that my teams just couldn’t win teamfights due to countercomp or failure to spam AoE CC first or couldn’t rotate properly, so even if they did win teamfights we’d be getting outnumbered or back capped somewhere else. When I just tried to watch home and more it seemed to help slightly, but yeah.

In the match we played against each other your team was just horrible. They weren’t even using anti-stomp mechanics.

heh got 13 losses in row from that 8 times in row faced different full guild premade as solo queuer

Vapour.7348:

To keep my sanity, I usually quit after 5 straight losses.

But that’s ridiculous that you had to endure 14 losses before 1 win. Hopefully you get a nice winning streak this time around

I still need to take breaks to keep my sanity even after 5 wins in a row. Probably shouldn’t play back to back matches either way~ becomes unhealthy madness. XD I don’t do it for fun, really. I do it for the rewards and AP. I do WvW for fun. Stronghold does ease the pain though for me. Conquest can get pretty cancerous.

meow one twenty.4376:

nearlight.3064:

I finally won a game after 14 (possibly more, not sure) losses. After that I was just like kitten it, I need to stop before I develop hypertension.

I Don’t know why these matches were so bad. I’m better at necro than engi but still, marauder engi is strong enough to 1v1 most things.

My best guess is that my teams just couldn’t win teamfights due to countercomp or failure to spam AoE CC first or couldn’t rotate properly, so even if they did win teamfights we’d be getting outnumbered or back capped somewhere else. When I just tried to watch home and more it seemed to help slightly, but yeah.

In the match we played against each other your team was just horrible. They weren’t even using anti-stomp mechanics.

I think that game we also had a DH who sat home the whole time while raging at people in the chat.

Meanwhile, since he was doing that we were getting outnumbered everywhere else even though we did win a couple smaller fights against you.