So it looks like Blizzard still haven’t fixed the broken matchmaking/onesided matches?
Going into this season, all my matches have been stomped/get stomped.
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Nothing wrong with the match maker, you just don’t like being rolled.
You are also playing placement games after a reset, game is going to be a little messy for a bit. (just imagine how bad it would be if they reset MMR… wait, we don’t need to as CoD tested to see what would happen recently).
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I don’t like stomping or getting stomped, neither are fun. I don’t play this for casual fun. Unsure where you got the “you just don’t like being rolled.” part from, another lie.
I have been playing since OW2 release and been saying it’s a problem since it’s release, it’s been “a little messy” since then.
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I think a COMPLETE rank reset + an overhaul on the mmr system to be more accurately based on performance would help the situation.
When I say a COMPLETE rank reset I mean back to 0, not sure if it’s similar this season but last ‘reset’ prior to this ‘reset’ was a joke ~ it basically made people fight to get back to where they were, not a true rank reset.
I had a friend do his placements better than mine last season and he stayed in bronze like he always was, yet I made it back to gold where I always was, these rank ‘resets’ are fake & just make you compete to get your average rank back.
Seems like wins/losses are the only thing that rank you up but I personally think the system should be considering more important statistics to accurately rank someone such as;
- final blows (less effect for shared kills ~ these don’t mean much they just mean you’re playing with your team and finishing people off)
- overall K/D ratio
- ult cancels
- possibly high MIT scores, MIT isn’t amazing but it does have impact.
For a quick example on the MIT situation;
If my dps take a little longer than average to kill a pharah/mercy and my supports aren’t doing so great at keeping them up while they try to kill the pharah/mercy wombo combo, using DVA defense matrix can keep them alive long enough to do their job.
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That would be difficult to calculate fairly.
What if you’re the guy who pushed point while the other four were chasing/pressing back the enemy team. Ult cancels will be heavily skewed to the doomfist/brig/ana etc (I know you’re probably just scribbling out thoughts ot what could class as performance), it’s just a hard thing to truly, and fairly calculate.
The ranking system in OW was good, and so far, their best system so far. OW2 is meh, but it was Really meh when it first came out. The matchmaker is the worst it has ever been.
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Yeah but look at the current state of the ranking system, it’s almost purely win/loss based. I don’t think that classifies as fair in all honesty, final blows should be the most taken into consideration next to win/loss but I am pretty much convinced that your stats truly mean nothing ~ only your win/loss ratio.
This opens up a huge field for people to be carried into ranks they do not deserve causing more frustration for players who get said boosted people on their team, at least if they fairly calculate statistics people will be where they belong ~ not where they were carried to be.
Matchmaker can’t predict intoxication & some other factors so I really believe the only way to MAYBE fix this situation is to take statistics into better consideration, I’ve carried my bronze friend into gold easily playing as a duo
It is, quite rightly, purely win/loss based.
Win the match in front of you. That is the true judge of your skill. Can you deal with all the random and weird things that a match of Overwatch can throw at you and come out on top.
All this achieves is a massive open window for higher end players to carry bronze players where they shouldn’t be.
I know the whole situation can be debated with a lot of factors but none of those factors change the fact when the ranks are based purely on win & loss, it’s only putting a lot of players where they don’t belong.
You’re basically siding with the fact if a bronze player plays with platinum level team (friends or even smurfs) they should also in fact be platinum, the ranks (much like your statistics) essentially have no meaning 
No disrespect everyone is entitled to their own opinions & beliefs but this whole situation just silly, hence why I’ve decided to just play competitive like it’s QP.
If that happens. So be it. If you stack with a bronze player, you are going to be against a similar stack anyways. So you aren’t “boosting” anyone. They are winning against peers.
If you are plat and they are bronze. If they climb to plat stacked with yoou… you will be in masters/gm.
I suspect you won’t be boosting them at all.
The only bad thing about “wide” queues is because there are so few of them, can take an age to find a game. The idea is good on paper, casual game play with friends… but in reality it probably can be put downs as a small fail.
Yeah it’s been proven time and time again that given loud enough feedback Blizzard does listen…
Indeed telling people to quit the game and give up on it entirely because of some particular aspect(s) that could use improvement makes very little sense…
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Or we could all just give up playing. 
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en-mass “we” the players should if you want to force change.
Off you go then. I come here to give feedback.
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Can you give it then. Rather than just complain.
Feedback requires some actual information, or at least game codes to show what your “issue” is that you want to provide feedback on.
I already have in this forum. Read, and pay attention to what you’re reading. It’s quite simple 
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Blizzard can reach out to me if they want codes/want to know anything more.
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That made me laugh. The irony is funny. If you did this, you wouldn’t make the claims you make.
Maybe, most people use discord these days.
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Wouldn’t know. Binned it off a long time a go.
and these new maps are absolute d.o.g.s.h.i.t… kanker blizzardv
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The weirdest thing about this is we are being rolled by completely new accounts, half are obvious cheaters, and the other half are smurfs or high$ cheaters. I’ve been matching with a LOT of “new” accounts lately. It’s so bad that my win rate is currently 20% out of 30 games and dropping with every game having a hacker or likely smurf, the ONLY games won are the ones where teammates listened and hard focused on them first, or when they stop after being reported (ive had 2 games where there was 4 obviously hacking on theirs and 2 on mine).
been playing since the start, and it’s worse than ever right now, even after their “defence matrix” started, those 500,000 cheaters don’t go away, they just get new accounts. The dev team really need to do something like spiking the local installation of a cheater so when they swap to a new account, they are immediately red-flagged.