I’m critical of SBMM but not from a “I want to own noobs” point of view quite the contrary
I had a lot more fun being bad at TF2 randomly jumping in games than being bad in any SBMM games
I think skill is impossible to quantify and people will blame their mates even of their rank is ten times as high simply because when you’re bad you can totally see someone doing the right thing and think it’s literally griefing
Also trying to rank up pushes the global skill level of the game up, since everyone is training to get a >50% win rate in harder and harder environments
I wonder if MOBAS would be a bit less toxic if they never had any SBMM in the first place. Everyone would just be bad faith and flame just as normal except very few people would go beyond knowing what shit does in terms of game proficiency
You can have fun being bad at TF2 because pub players fucking suck at the game on average. And the good ones often dont do teamwork so they’re basically bad players anyways. In other words you have fun in it because it’s skill based matchmaking with only one level: bad at the game
I played original dota just within warcraft 3 TFT, so it was without skill based matchmaking. And it was mostly about the same I’d say. Sometimes you get people absurdly good, and sometimes you get people horrendously bad.
I never played Dota 2 ranked matchmaking. Always just unranked, usually all random. It was intensely try hard and usually made me more upset than full of joy. So I quit when they broke all random years and years ago (2017 maybe?), also my wrists can’t handle that much mouse clicking anymore so it was for the best, physically and mentally.
I wasn’t talking about the objective side, more like, you might be able to objectively win more matches against more player than them (aka better in the elo system) but your teammates will still genuinely think you’re bad at the game because you missed one thing that they might have not
I’m critical of SBMM but not from a “I want to own noobs” point of view quite the contrary
I had a lot more fun being bad at TF2 randomly jumping in games than being bad in any SBMM games
I think skill is impossible to quantify and people will blame their mates even of their rank is ten times as high simply because when you’re bad you can totally see someone doing the right thing and think it’s literally griefing
Also trying to rank up pushes the global skill level of the game up, since everyone is training to get a >50% win rate in harder and harder environments
I wonder if MOBAS would be a bit less toxic if they never had any SBMM in the first place. Everyone would just be bad faith and flame just as normal except very few people would go beyond knowing what shit does in terms of game proficiency
You can have fun being bad at TF2 because pub players fucking suck at the game on average. And the good ones often dont do teamwork so they’re basically bad players anyways. In other words you have fun in it because it’s skill based matchmaking with only one level: bad at the game
Yeah I agree and I think it’s awesome, let’s all suck ass and be happy, let’s be like kids instead of role playing as an athlete with a rank and stuff
Exactly. So we should have unranked skill based matchmaking to prevent noob pwning
Yeah delete ranked modes for sure. I’d still want to experiment with zero SBMM, like, scientifically, to see how it goes
I played original dota just within warcraft 3 TFT, so it was without skill based matchmaking. And it was mostly about the same I’d say. Sometimes you get people absurdly good, and sometimes you get people horrendously bad. I never played Dota 2 ranked matchmaking. Always just unranked, usually all random. It was intensely try hard and usually made me more upset than full of joy. So I quit when they broke all random years and years ago (2017 maybe?), also my wrists can’t handle that much mouse clicking anymore so it was for the best, physically and mentally.
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I wasn’t talking about the objective side, more like, you might be able to objectively win more matches against more player than them (aka better in the elo system) but your teammates will still genuinely think you’re bad at the game because you missed one thing that they might have not