So I was recently playing a lot of 3v3 games and noticed that some people there are cheating the system to get unfair games and win pretty much all of them.
While being really good themselves, they team up with an equally good partner who has been recently tanking their MMR (by leaving lots of 3v3 games at the start of the game). While being a team of two in the game of 3v3 their individual MMR is taken into account. As a result, two Master1 players are matched up with opponents around platinum-diamond level. Needless to say their win rate while doing this in insanely high (close to 100%) and they are ruining a lot of games.
I identified at least two people doing this on EU server:
Edited by Blizzard - Name-calling is not allowed
Both were playing with the same account ironically named “EloBooster”, who was a Grandmaster team player back in the day, but when I played him, he was in Silver, teamed up with Master1 player, and having 400 APM. Looks reasonable, right?
So this type of Matchmaking abuse is not new. I remember Heroes of the Storm at some point banned incomplete teams from ranked games because there was just no way of preventing all the abuse and unfair advantage in ranking that people in incomplete teams get, compared to those playing alone. This was a hard decision for HotS, since there is no 4v4, 3v3, 2v2 mode there, but they still did it to improve the Matchmaking. Why this is not done for SC2? I realize this game is balanced and maintained with 1v1 in mind mostly, but team-based modes are still there, and 10 years is more than enough time to fix the glaring issues there, isn’t it?
So pretty please, Blizzard, do your research and do the right thing - ban incomplete teams from 3v3 and 4v4 modes. If people want to play together - they can choose a suitable mode for that (2v2 if there is 2 of them, or 3v3 if there is 3). When they go for incomplete team matchmaking, best case scenario - they are getting an unfair advantage against people playing solo, worst - they are abusing the system in a way described above.
Another fix long overdue - people going on streaks of leaving games early to tank their ranking. This is especially dire in team games. Because of one player, the rest 5-7 players get a really shi**y game on their hands. In CS:GO this problem was dealt with in the following way: if the player leaves a game early, they have a 30 minute ban from matchmaking (which makes sense, if you suddenly need to leave due to real life issues, you won’t be playing anyway). If they do the same thing again in the near future, they are banned from matchmaking for 1 day, if they do that again, then for 1 week. WHY IS IT TAKING YOU 10 YEARS TO DO SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THAT BLIZZARD?
I realize that most people playing 3v3 and 4v4 are casual gamers who don’t really visit forums often, but this is still an important (and easy to fix!) issue and I would ask people not playing team games to still show their support.
- it’s not cheating but the game forces it…