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The Truth about SBMM in Destiny: How it affects the community

After researching stats / testing out PVP on a new account, simply turning SBMM off isn't the answer. Far more people will be hurt by the change than we think. I'm not saying every gaming being ultra competitive is right either.... but we need to look a the greater good instead of what is best for the top players.

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  • Edited by Zoey: 5/25/2016 1:01:29 PM
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    Nope sorry, SBMM is terrible. Not once did you mention the lag or fireteam searches, your only argument was "the lower skilled players matter too" (and yes, I heard your stance on Social/Ranked, but we're focusing on right now), and all of your tests were done solo dropping into games. Good players are good for a reason, they practice, they put time in to improve, and punishing them with a system like the one that is currently in place is a terrible move. Look back to House of Wolves when Crucible was FUN, not necessarily balanced, but FUN, and when SBMM was lax af. No-one complained about lag. No-one complained about getting stomped. I remember FOUR distinct complaint posts on the forum -Shot Package -Hidden Hand -Thorn -TLW [Edit: 5- Final Round] And that was it. No 'bring in SBMM' or 'Bungie make the game easier for me', it was primarily those four topics. And yet Bungie straight up lied to us for four months before saying 'oh right yeah, we added SBMM when TTK dropped'. NO-ONE ASKED FOR IT. You say 'the lower skilled players will quit because they're getting constantly stomped', so tell me, what is the chance for those players to match... Let's say any of the top 5% players in Crucible? Oh right exactly that, 5%. 5 out of 100 games they will get absolute decimated, but that's a tiny amount of time. That's what, average 50 minutes? Out of an average 1000 total minutes of Crucible time for those 100 games at 10 minutes a piece? Yeah, no, they won't quit. Also, CoD does absolutely fine without SBMM, in fact they tried it, and the community were in such an uproar about how bad it was, they reverted it within TWENTY FOUR HOURS. In a system like this, lower skilled players don't massively improve anyway, it might seem like they do, but if you're making the same mistakes you were making when playing higher leveled players, except SUCCEEDING while doing them, you're going to get conditioned to do them more often because of that gunfight you just won, while flying about for a minute straight since your opponent was too stupid to point upwards and pull the trigger. You don't face players who actually know what they are doing, so you don't learn or adapt to their strategies, you just stay in freaking candy land with all the other players who apparently need coddled because "wahh I don't want to play good players or improve". This system doesn't even encourage you to improve because if you do then you're going to be in the same position as all the other players who have to sweat in red-bar lobbies every game, and hey guess what, [i]no-one finds it fun to play sweaty as shit under 200ms ping every damn game.[/i] Earlier this week in doubles, I got matched against the same duo fireteam THREE GAMES IN A ROW EVEN AFTER BACKING OUT AFTER EACH GAME. We were all greenbar for maybe 25% of each game. That is unacceptable in this era of technology. I'm not saying I want to get matched up against .4kds every game, I just don't want to have to play under these shitty conditions every game, especially with the abysmal kill times this game has been reduced to. It's not fun to play with/as red bars, it's not fun to sweat continuously, and it's not fun to have to take over a second to kill someone. Look, I'm all for SOME form of SBMM in Destiny before someone calls me out for wanting to pubstomp every game. I have 876 hours in Rocket League and compete at the same rank as the best of the best, I even matched with someone from the #1 team in EU. But [i]this[/i] SBMM that we have in Destiny now? The shitty, lag-filled, slow, boring Crucible we have now? Nuh-uh. Edit: Gotta love when people downvote all your posts out of spite without even trying to argue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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