This post is obviously against the grain of the forum, but I'd like to say thank you for SBMM Bungie. Myself, I'm a top 1%, sweaty, couple thousand hours spent on the crucible type of player. It can be rough at times playing against people from South America - teleporting guardians - and knowing that using guns for "fun" is going result in a piss poor kd for the match and remove any fun I was thinking about having. The thing is, no matter how sweaty it gets, no matter how poor the connections, I'm going to continue to play the crucible and I think Bungie knows that.
The reason for the thank you though isn't for me, it's my step son. He's 8 and loves games, as most kids his age do. He plays a lot of CoD and a few other shooters but has shown zero interest in Destiny until recently watching me play some trials. A couple days ago I came home from work to find him loaded up in the crucible queuing up in classic 3v3. My first thought was, oh shit... Wrong playlist. He's going to get absolutely wrecked and never play again. How wrong I was. The lobby he was in had a few 380+ LL people in it, but he was able to hold his own despite his atrocious aim, inability to utilize grenades or melee's effectively, and complete lack of radar awareness. Somehow he managed to not get wrecked. After a couple of games he even got first place using a blue sidearm as his primary on Widows Court.
Knowing him, he would quit half way through the first match if he was matched up against people in my normal lobbies. There would have been no fun to be had. Thanks to SBMM, he went on to play several games and play again the next day. He's asked questions about Destiny constantly since and can't stop talking about it. Bungie, I believe your target audience (the silent majority) are satisfied with the decisions you've made thus far. Your SBMM seems catered to casuals which initially annoyed me, but after what I've seen over the last few days, it's made me happier than ever. Thank you Bungie for making Destiny a household topic of discussion.
Edit: For clarification - main is top 1% in DTR... Have been informed I am still a scrub. Disregard my POV.
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7 RepliesYou know what's funny ? I've been playing some titanfall 2. There's no skill based matchmaking in there as far as I know. If there is, it's not anything close to Destiny. You know what that means ? I've been getting my ass straight up handed to me almost every match. But you know what I've been doing ? [b][i][u]I'VE BEEN LEARNING FROM MY MISTAKES AND IMPROVING MY OWN GAMEPLAY.[/u][/i][/b] I'm not sitting on their subreddit or their forums demanding that a Matchmaking system should be implemented to hold my hand until I feel comfortable with the game. This generation of gamers are lazy pieces of shit that don't want to take their own time and effort to improve their gameplay. And before this starts some bullshit war where are the casuals think I want SBMM removed, no, I don't want that. What I do want is a better solution that supports causal players [b][i][u]AND[/u][/i][/b] the skilled players. Right now as it stands, the casual side of the skill spectrum is the only side being supported. That is pure bullshit. You do not sit there and alienate your playerbase, giving one side good matches but giving the other side a straight up shit show and just tell us to play strikes or private matches.
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1 ReplyYou know, at first I was enjoying the "sincerity" in your thank you to bungie. Then I read the edit and now I have to disregard it completely. Damn, I hate the rules of these forums. I like you, but now you're a scrub, no hard feelings, right?
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1 ReplyWell said and dont worry only dumbasses and dickless stat junkies judge someone on their rolling ave kd. Awesome that your son in law is enjoying the crucible experience. My daughter to likes destiny but more prefers the relaxed pve content and hooning around patrol maps on the sparrows.
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2 RepliesYou are an average destiny player not top 1% - more like top 30% if I had to judge
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Cringey.
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1 ReplyYou see the other side and you're not bitter. That's unusual on this forum I salute you sir
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Should've known the no life stat whores would come out swinging. Cool story bro.
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Total dtr doesn't mean shit, just means you played a lot Average dtr is what counts, total dtr / games played
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To start with let me state that I am crap at pvp, you know, that guardian with around a 1.00 k/d. I am curious, " knowing that using guns for "fun" is going result in a piss poor kd for the match and remove any fun I was thinking about having". Why does your after match k/d have such an effect on your ability to have "fun". I am the sort of player that is happy to get repeatedly killed by my friends if that are trying to do a quest or bounty or whatever. This obviously effects my k/d, but so what. My "fun" is helping my friends.
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1 ReplyI hate sbmm because it keeps my son and I from playing together. He quit playing because he wanted to play with me and our clan. He got tired of going 20-6 and thinking he was good, just to get killed when he played with us. 4-18 killed. Sbmm ruined it for him.
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4 RepliesUhhh how do you know what percentage you are in. Awhile back when you could make trailers for your guardians it said i was in the tops of crucible. But like. Idk where i am now currently
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6 RepliesEdited by Lxj: 11/29/2016 8:49:29 PMYou just have a lot of playtime, the rest of your stats are sub-par, you're not a "top 1%" player, you do not represent them, you benefit from SBMM, stupid post.
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Thank you
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Thanks for that post and please do not listen to the "gitgutters " they simply can't appreciate anything else since they don't have anything else in life ^^
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I like it as is with cbmm being the priority.
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1 ReplyYou don't seem [i]that[/i] good stat wise. I could probably still beat you if I was in my prime.
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2 RepliesSo because your kid can push around a couple of joysticks you thank bungie?