Quotes from Apex Game Director Chad Grenier: [quote]“We’ve done tests where we change the skill-based matchmaking rules, or turn it off in certain areas, certain data centres for a period of time and we collect data, and there’s concrete evidence that having skill-based matchmaking in our game makes players play longer, play more, increases retention, increases play hours,”[/quote] [quote]“When we turn skill-based matchmaking off, we see new players come into the game and they turn away much sooner, because they’re getting matched with high-tier players and they’re getting stomped,” he added. “So we have concrete evidence that skill-based matchmaking is good for the overall health of the game. That’s why we haven’t addressed it.”[/quote] Original Article is here: [url]https://www.vg247.com/2020/06/03/why-apex-legends-has-sbmm/[/url] But of course we know that Destiny is different. What can you expect from a developer who isn't even able to implement a matchmaker that matches teams with teams (like any other game in 2020), but has to split the playlists to add a solo player only list.