Guild Wars 2

Current system.
Currently the system throws everyone of all mmr ranges in the same game in unranked. This can mean that there is a huge gap between players in mmr and this can cause issues.

Suggestion.
I would like to suggest to reduce this possible gap between players by by making some mmr windows in which players will be matched.

People with mmr range a-b in the same game.
People with mmr range c-d in the same game.
People with mmr range e-f in the same game.

This would match more similar people with each other, for a more better gaming experience.

Issues.
If you put people from all mmr ranges in the same game, you will get issues.
People with to big gaps in mmr, experience, mindset, intentions, goals etc. get teamed up with and against each other.

Just some examples:

People who just want to fight others for a bit and who dont care about objectives (and thus have low mmr), get teamed up with people who want to play seriously with higher mmr. Their goals conflict while being in the same team.

People who are new to the game (and thus no high mmr) get teamed up against experienced players with high mmr. Not exactly fair game.
Could also give less incentive and chances for new players to start to like pvp, whereas it would make it more likely for new players to like pvp, if unranked had smaller gaps.

Better experience.
It would make a better gaming experience if these gaps were smaller.

Please consider making the mmr gaps smaller in which people can be matched with and against each other.
Like in the a-b c-d e-f example.

You have no way of knowing whether this is the matchmaking actually working, or when the matchmaker has given up due to lack of players.

I think a much better change is to give players control over the matchmaker. If you want teammates and opponents close to your MMR, you can set those settings (and accept longer or even infinite queue times.)
If you set the mmr/class stacking/solo queue parameters to be “anything goes”, then you get teammates and opponents with compatible settings, and faster queues.

Let players decide what match quality vs queue time they prefer.

Rieselle.5079:

You have no way of knowing whether this is the matchmaking actually working, or when the matchmaker has given up due to lack of players.

I think a much better change is to give players control over the matchmaker. If you want teammates and opponents close to your MMR, you can set those settings (and accept longer or even infinite queue times.)
If you set the mmr/class stacking/solo queue parameters to be “anything goes”, then you get teammates and opponents with compatible settings, and faster queues.

Let players decide what match quality vs queue time they prefer.

That would be fine with me too.

Getting access to parameters to reduce mmr gap, maybe class stacking etc. at the cost of que times would be a good option to have.
To have that option besides the ‘’anything goes’’ option as you call it.