Replay that proves Overwatch's matchmaking is completely broken

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I’ve been dealing with bad matchmaking in overwatch for very long…

I don’t want the stress of playing competitive right now. Quick Play is the most popular queue anyway. So it should, at least, provide a remotely balanced match.
At least if fairness should be a component of “game” (Hint: it should)

I get TWO first-match-fresh players/accounts on my team that AREN’T EVEN IN A GROUP to raise the risk of that coincidence.

Matchmaking has always been very bad, not always as bad as this, but sometimes yes, and there were no replays sharing. Now there is. The match was, with no exaggeration, a joke. The enemy team kept trolling in chat for us trying.

I was high gold when I played competitive and now I’m way better than I was, so my MMR should be in the middle or higher, and these guys weren’t smurfing. They did not know the maps nor what to do. They had 0/200 XP of level 1 and no endorsement yet so the accounts were completely fresh. Too fresh to be even considered a possible smurf.

If throwing new accounts in the middle of the entire MMR range is Blizzard’s new way to adjust smurfs’ MMR quick on the expense of players, then they should try to be as decent as to, at least, have a rule to not shove all of the match’s fresh accounts on the same team!

And what is the MMR range for an entire match?
I thought lowest has to be within 1 league from the highest. But it was 2 non-grouped first-match-fresh players on the same team!
What makes it further frustrating is that it happens with the lowest on the other team being WAY higher than a fresh, and the highest on the fresh(s)'s team being healers so they have no way of carrying.

The fresh(s) did not know the way to the point on the map. And I’m much better than I was and I was in gold. So what kind of matching is that?

And when I mentioned the matchmaking to the trolling enemy team the fresh players started apologizing as if they were trolling me too by making me feel bad for even mentioning matchmaking. “I’m sorry” "I will try harder. Forgive me " and so on… and they knew exactly how to switch to match chat.
One guess is that they were trying to troll Blizzard or merely “dip rating” for knowing they’re being given initial higher rating than they’d want, but what are the chances that both of them planned to do just that and ended up in the same match without having been in a group to begin with?

It honestly felt staged by Blizzard or some hackers. Thinking about it deeper now, I think it was a very creepy match. Like Blizzard has some trolling AI to annoy people who make sh*tposts or something like that.
Why would they think I deserve this when they know nothing about my life… Just look at the replay. I hope the match’s chat is visible there.
I can’t believe how surrealistically annoying and creepy that was.

Troll me other ways, Blizzard. You know enough about me to be able to do so. But matchmaking? Fix that… Games are used for escapism for a reason, and it’s not to trigger hair-pulling urges.

My only move now is to hope to mentally recover from this.

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I agree with you 100% blizzard probably looked at your forum posts and thought to themselves: “let’s troll this guy”. That’s the only reasonable explanation.

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No, let me stop you right there.
No.
Simply No.

Thats not how it works, you know it, and you dont want to deal with it.
Quick Play is the most casual mode there is, even more than Arcade. Its the place people go by default to play the game with its basic rules and the MMR is specifically designed, to not have strict SR requirements.

It will only balance the teams skill on average, thats it. If you want something that is SR balanced, Competitive is your choice.

PS: Also if someone leaves, a dude goes in, fast as possible, with barely no SR requirement whatsoever. Thats how it works.

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Then you won’t get balanced matches.

Quick Play is to find you a game quickly, without much concern for a balanced match. Winning or losing in QP is also meaningless because you just play one round.

Stick with competitive if you want balanced matches. Do not look at your SR and your winrate that much. Just play your game and you will get more balanced matches if you play long enough.

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Then I’ll have to play competitive because Quick Play is, evidently, psychological abuse. Thanks for the input, guys.
BudgetBumper, telling an unreasonable explanation is a common way of saying there’s no explanation. Don’t take things literally my dude.

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Matchmaker is a little messy atm, but that’'s down to them trying to force quicker games.

Sadly I’d rather quality over quantity. But nothing we can do.

And dude. Never play quick play. It is trash.

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Ye still zero fun when it’s basically a coin flip decided by which team gets the most low-level players.
It just ruins my experience on both sides of the coin. I don’t want to wait in queue for 9 min just to steam roll low-level players. That’s just not fun and Blizzard should definitely do more than an “average skill check”.
Tbh it doesn’t feel like they even do a skill check. Like I get players from lvl-1 till mid-plat in my QP games and it ruins my fun.

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Experience does not count?? Paired with 5 hours players, not even qualified and playing a lot of games against much more experienced Teams. Blizzard has this problem for about 5 years. They don’t care, annoying! It’s totally reasonable to pair teams with players with a balanced experience and level

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