I’m not here to cry about the matchmaking, I’m just legitimately curious. I’ve been playing PvP for years, placed first on leaderboards, soloq to legend, played small tournaments, kept a pretty solid 65-70% winrate etc. I took a break for several months so I’m not saying I’m in top shape or anything, but I know what I’m doing. I went 6-4 in my placements, placed gold. I thought whatever I’ll just play for fun and rank up, but I can’t even win a single game. Most of the games I get are complete blowouts and I’m just really confused at this point. I don’t care if the people in my games aren’t good, I don’t care about my rank, but the other team just seems better enough that my teammates honestly can’t last more than 20 seconds in a fight. I’m just asking for fun, close games, that’s all. Is it possible to get some help on this? If you tell me that everything is working as intended, then fine. I’ve just never seen it this bad and I’m a bit perplexed.
You’re seeing it “working as intended”. People have parsed the numbers and found that the “algorithm” they use places the higher MMR folks together against the lower ones. It’s absurd.
Also, the “good” players like to play off peak hours so they use that top heavy matchmaking in their favor. Keep that in mind when you queue up. We need to accept that Anet doesn’t care or isn’t willing to address the concerns (for whatever reason) and frustration of the players.
Yet, the devs are on top of players with permanent dishonor, making sure they get their rewards for “winning” while those legitimate problems go unanswered.
Expect to see people jumping into this thread telling you to l2p, defending the devs, etc. There is a CLEAR problem and we are receiving ZERO communication about whether they are even looking into it.
Interestingly, the match where no points were taken away we had a full team. I have no idea why but I am guessing it had something to do with the matchup being less than “fair”.
I’m not asking for an easy ride. Like you, all I want are fair, fun matches.
Edit: I’m also extremely curious as to why I’m losing more points on losses, especially ones where it’s clear the fight is one-sided and not on wins that are close or blow outs.
Well maybe I’m not crazy then. I’m just trying to be reasonable here and I understand that 1 or even 100 people whining on the forums about their loss streaks isn’t much of a sample. But I’ve played PvP long enough to know something just feels off (more than usual at least…), so I was looking for maybe a dev to comment on this?
