Guild Wars 2

Ok I actually got this idea from Dota and over the 5 years of playing Dota 2, I have seen it produce quite good results. I think everybody that plays PvP agrees that the matchmaking is still very wonky and it’s just plainly off at times. Since Valve seem to have used the data they gathered quite successfully, as in matchmaking definitely saw vast improvement over the 5 years or so that I have played, I think a similar process can help too here.

Before we start this is what the Dota 2 developers (Valve) did on their official developers forum. (players and users can post there too by the way, it’s not just for developers of the game) There was a thread created where users can upload screenshots, match numbers, and other details where the matchmaking is obviously not fair or calibrated the teams wrong. Developers actually replies and look into some of the really wonky matches too which is quite a good thing.

Somethings that could be posted here:
-Class stacking issues
-Grouping issues, for example multi stacks vs solo queue games
-Blowouts either you stomped or got stomped
-Bad division team assignments

I hope someone from higher up can notice this and perhaps make it a sticky. Finding ways to gather data to improve the game can’t be bad right?

Only problem I see with this is that mods seem to have a problem with posting match results.

1. The moderators here don’t take kindly to posting match results.

2. ANET almost certainly has access to match data already. A biased subsection of that data which would need to be manually entered to do anything with is probably not worth very much. It would be much easier to find blowouts, class stacking issues, etc. via examination of the full match data.