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IMO people act like it's training wheels so they can get better, but it's more like turning the game to easy and not having to face any challenging hurdles. When people go into a game on easier difficulties and then try to play it on a higher difficulty, they actually generally have a harder time than if they just played the game on the harder difficulty to begin with (with some exceptions). Players should be getting better by experience not algorithmically making them feel better by pitting them against other poor players. It worked just fine for a long time before the invention of SBMM, and servers used to do a lot of the filtering for us before that stopped being common (for absolutely no good reasons).
This is honestly why the average player is worse now than they used to be.
This misses the players who are always low elo for their whole lives - its not fun for them to get stomped every game forever...
They are low elo forever because they only play low elo games. There are way more low elo players than not, so without SBMM they wont get stomped all the time, it was never like that before so I dont get why we are pretending it will be now.
SBMM matches bad players with other bad players. Why are you pretending like the bad players wouldn't get stomped all the time if SBMM was removed?
Well that kind of gets to my second point of servers disappearing. Used to be you could find or create your own servers for your more casual players but most games these days have no such options.
SBMM does in fact help you get better though, as when you get better and perform better it will match you with better players, rinse and repeat.
That's the same logic as the Bible is real because it says so in the Bible.
Not at all the same, not even sure how you got to that conclusion tbh.
The whole point of SBMM is to match you with people around your skill, both higher and lower. When you start consistently beating ones that are higher than you, your skill number increases. Consistently lose and it decreases. Rinse and repeat.
In COD it works exceptionally well. Most games are an arm wrestle, with the occasional blowout - usually when there’s a clan involved.
If you think that SBMM doesn’t give you any challenges, your skill level must be so low that you’re stuck playing 6 year olds.
STFU