• ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games)

    Typical, so many of the people who complain about the existence of SBMM in games are people who want to be able to constantly stomp players who are worse than them (when people complain about “not wanting to sweat all the time”, this is pretty much guaranteed to be the actual reason)

    While I don’t doubt that Halo and CoD have flawed matchmaking, people usually use those to say that SBMM as a whole is a bad thing, or even that it’s “ruining gaming”, when it exists for good reasons and benefits a lot of games

    You rarely see people complain about it in fighting games for example, usually when people do it’s because the developers of a given game have designed an original system that does a bad job at actually matching skill, when a typical Elo-style system would’ve worked far better

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      10 months ago

      It’s just whining. Even communities of games where SBMM has always existed, people create wild myths like “loser’s queue” to justify their inability to easily win. It’s just a result of people having no sportsmanship to speak of.