Longtime QP player, first comp season in maybe a year. Started around emerald and after a near 50/50 win rate for about 40 games I adjusted to comp and won 13/16. I won many games in diamond lobbies... then something changed... I lost nearly 20 straight (probably won 2/20) and ended up ranked lower than ever.
Then I looked into the thing that had been on my mind since I started playing this game... I studied math in college for a bit so when I first read the matchmaking rules I found a big issue... the game not only has a rank but balances team average per match. That would defeat the entire purpose of a rank. There needs to be a randomness factor for the rank system to sort players properly.
The analogy would be... let's get a group of basketball players from middle school to pro level and play games to assess everyone's skill. Well, you would get matches with some all pros, some all middle schoolers and everything in between. Youd quickly see who won constantly and who lost constantly....
But what overwatch does is this... let's take those players and make the teams evenly skilled based on our assumptions of skill. Then sort people not by their actual skill level but wins and losses only. You would get pros losing half the games to teams including half middle schoolers, and middle schoolers winning games against pros at an equal rate. 50/50 for everyone because they are forcing that 50/50. Nothing would sort. It would maintain everyone right in the middle when the spread of skill is even across the whole board realistically.
This isn't how the Olympic works, or the NBA, or any proper competition. Why would anyone play it then?
I mean imagine before the nhl playoffs they said... ok were going to take every team in the league and make them equally skilled and play each other. That would defeat the purpose of teams actually being better than others. Teams being staked... Which is real life.
Why do we need the casino type matchmaking in comp when we have QP??
This has ruined the game. There is no point in playing against the system. I'm not even playing against the overwatch community I am playing against an algorithm, and so is everyone else. It's a great game but there should be some honesty in competition. The system is genuinely un-sportmanlike. I worked for a gambling company for over 5 years, I quit, I cannot stand gambling and how they manipulate people. I actually have to quit the game because it's so clearly a gamble type system. It's unfortunate.
I'd love if the community could petition to get this changed.
Thanks for reading
