Guild Wars 2

so yeah fixed your game, i paid $99 for this expansion coz u promise league system which u kitten with the horrible utterly broken match making! i play as a casual few hours a day and waited 4-6 mins Q per game just for this! kitten kitten kitten!

Newsflash…they have already acknowledged this to be a problem. Other than that, HERE IS THE ATTENTION YOU CRAVE.

Pyriall.1683:

Newsflash…they have already acknowledged this to be a problem. Other than that, HERE IS THE ATTENTION YOU CRAVE.

Have they? This is not a premade, it’s SOLO amber/emerald players getting matched against double legend/diamond trio. Seems to be they messed with the code today again.

if pointing out something wrong with their game is asking for attention i guess i am. 3 man premade with legendary and ruby vs full pugs with amber! and emerald

Burn.5401:

Pyriall.1683:

Newsflash…they have already acknowledged this to be a problem. Other than that, HERE IS THE ATTENTION YOU CRAVE.

Have they? This is not a premade, it’s SOLO amber/emerald players getting matched against double legend/diamond trio. Seems to be they messed with the code today again.

Yes they did, if you took the time to read the forums/reddit you’d see that they, indeed, did acknowledge the current matchmaking as being a problem… but yeah it’s apparently more useful to post the same flaming post over and over again.

Pepsi.8907:

Yes they did

Link? Are you talking about patch tomorrow to address long running concerns. Match making has been a problem since League’s started, that they are only now addressing.

However today, has seen some extraordinarily bad match ups, which is new.

SoPP.7034:

Pepsi.8907:

Yes they did

Link? Are you talking about patch tomorrow to address long running concerns. Match making has been a problem since League’s started, that they are only now addressing.

However today, has seen some extraordinarily bad match ups, which is new.

There’s a bloody sticky on it.

actually what they talk about fixing matchmaking is not whats the problem atm, something is broken because this match up shouldnt even be possible with their current system in place so nice try defending them. its a bug or broken code i dont know.

Pepsi.8907:

Yes they did, if you took the time to read the forums/reddit you’d see that they, indeed, did acknowledge the current matchmaking as being a problem… but yeah it’s apparently more useful to post the same flaming post over and over again.

Uh, this looks like a different problem, no? This looks like severely lopsided matchmaking, rather than the amber shopping they acknowledged. I’ve seen a ton of these posted today, so I’m half wondering if Anet tweaked something without telling us, resulting in really bad matchmaking?

You don’t know, because you don’t know the MMR of the players involved.

The matchmaking system in Season 1 uses a blend of both your current division placement in Leagues as well as your individual matchmaking rating (MMR). This means that you’ll generally get paired with and against players in your division that are of similar skill levels. Unfortunately, what this also means is that from day one you’re going to have difficult matches, and because of the way MMR works in Ranked play, you’ll have a very difficult time maintaining enough of a win-streak to progress through tiers and divisions. This is especially true as you climb into divisions such as Ruby where you can lose points as well as tiers. While this system helps ensure that your matches are always as competitive as possible, it does mean that it’s also more difficult to get to the division where you actually belong based on your skill – for example, as a top tier player, the difficulty of your matches in Amber would actually be fairly close to what you’d experience in Ruby and beyond. After analyzing your feedback, we’ve decided to shift toward having your division standing in PvP Leagues be even more reflective of your personal skill level than it currently is.
Beginning with Season 2, matchmaking for Ranked matches will use your placement in your current league division as your primary matchmaking consideration and pair you against players who are placed in the same point range as you, regardless of the skill level (MMR) of the other people in that point range. While we’ll be using divisions to match you against your immediate opponents, we’ll still use your MMR to place you on teams with similarly skilled players (from your division point range) to help ensure that you’re not forced to play with individuals that are of a much higher or lower skill than you. Ultimately, this means that the new matchmaking changes will make PvP Leagues much more reflective of your actual skill, and each division will be progressively more difficult to compete in.

pyriall you should be the one who needs reading coz none of this address whats happening right now. specially in my SS 3 man premade with legendary and 2 ruby pugs VS all pugs with amber, saphire, emerald.

Pyriall.1683:

You don’t know, because you don’t know the MMR of the players involved.

Placing a soloq legendary division play together with a soloq amber player is completely impossible in the algorithm that’s used in season 1 regardless of everyone’s mmr. As someone above me said, we’re discussing a different problem that’s only present since today.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

The matchmaking system in Season 1 uses a blend of both your current division placement in Leagues as well as your individual matchmaking rating (MMR). This means that you’ll generally get paired with and against players in your division that are of similar skill levels. Unfortunately, what this also means is that from day one you’re going to have difficult matches, and because of the way MMR works in Ranked play, you’ll have a very difficult time maintaining enough of a win-streak to progress through tiers and divisions. This is especially true as you climb into divisions such as Ruby where you can lose points as well as tiers. While this system helps ensure that your matches are always as competitive as possible, it does mean that it’s also more difficult to get to the division where you actually belong based on your skill – for example, as a top tier player, the difficulty of your matches in Amber would actually be fairly close to what you’d experience in Ruby and beyond. After analyzing your feedback, we’ve decided to shift toward having your division standing in PvP Leagues be even more reflective of your personal skill level than it currently is.
Beginning with Season 2, matchmaking for Ranked matches will use your placement in your current league division as your primary matchmaking consideration and pair you against players who are placed in the same point range as you, regardless of the skill level (MMR) of the other people in that point range. While we’ll be using divisions to match you against your immediate opponents, we’ll still use your MMR to place you on teams with similarly skilled players (from your division point range) to help ensure that you’re not forced to play with individuals that are of a much higher or lower skill than you. Ultimately, this means that the new matchmaking changes will make PvP Leagues much more reflective of your actual skill, and each division will be progressively more difficult to compete in.

pyriall you should be the one who needs reading coz none of this address whats happening right now. specially in my SS 3 man premade with legendary and 2 ruby pugs VS all pugs with amber, saphire, emerald.

“matchmaking for Ranked matches will use your placement in your current league division as your primary matchmaking consideration and pair you against players who are placed in the same point range as you”

@ Pyriall

Luckily you posted here, on reddit you would be getting down-voted to oblivion by now.

The 2 only possible explanations are:

1) Very huge and actually hilarious bug in the matchmaking.
2) You waited SO much in queue that in the end the system, instead of leaving you without playing, put you and all the players in the game. As to why it didn’t put the amber and emerald player with the trioq, I have no idea (except: another great bug) and ofc it doesn’t make any sense.

Still hilarious thou.

SoPP.7034:

@ Pyriall

Luckily you posted here, on reddit you would be getting down-voted to oblivion by now.

Scare me more…

Was queued into scenarios similar to this during the week and weekend. Playing against legendaries and having ambers on our team.

I didn’t think ANOTHER screen shot was necessary to tell people how crappy the match making was.

Today I had 28 pips at ruby tier, got in solo, and every time I end up with tier 1 2 3, I’m the highest tire, and the opponent teams are like this, 1 legendary, 2 diamond, 1 ruby, 1 sapphire.
kittenANET, I deleted this f game! I put time in this f game, and they stolen it from me.. they are manipulating match making, they should ban them self!

Evan Lesh.3295:

The change to long queue times went out last night, so this is the result of that. The search range is clearly expanding too much, so we’ll reconfigure it to be a tighter search again.

@Pyriall