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8/6/2022 1:45:56 PM
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Sbmm won’t make you magically good at pvp

Sbmm will help the people at the lower end of the skill spectrum have more fair fights but won’t magically make them pvp gods. I’d say the people who advocate Sbmm for the fairness of a fight is correct. All pvp should have it to a degree, but what about trials and free adepts. Trials even with Sbmm would be pretty difficult for lower skilled players. But in conclusion Sbmm won’t make all lower skilled players gods at pvp it won’t give them “free” adepts either it would just create fair fights for the health of pvp

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  • Neither will CBMM...but that was never the point. The point is that SBMM helps to make the experience of playing the game FUN for more than just those at the very top of the skill curve. SBMM creates a **competitive** envirionment. Each player gets to go up against someone who is more or less his level of skill (as in real sports)...and therefore has a realistic chance of winning fights. CBMM---especially CBMM after many years of skill creep---creates a **predatory** environment. One where players of average ability constantly find themselves thrown in with players of dramatically higher levels of skill that they have...and find themselves routinely in fights that they have little-to-no chance of winning. A point that Bungie's own in-house skill assessment and tracking confirmed. This is a situation that is not enjoyable for these players. It drives existing players of average ability out of the game...and creates an extremely hostile environment for new players to try to join the game. So the game hemorrhages players. Which is what has happened over the last three years. Since CBMM was made mandatory in 6s, daily PVP engagement has dropped from an average of nearly -blam!- per day....to about 300k. More ominously, is the fact that those numbers are FLAT. IOW, there is no bump to those numbers at the start of seasons or during special events, when PVE numbers always see a bump as players come back to the game for the new activities. Bottomline. CBMM was slowly destroying The Crucible. Just like it kept doing to TRials. Only it was just happening more slowly to 6v6.

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