How is this a hard concept for you to grasp? Maybe you should stop taking the short bus to school and quit licking windows. Now....to again, further clarify for you since you are in such need of it, SBMM is exactly that: SKILL BASED matchmaking. The higher tier of a player you are, the smaller the pool of opponents you have and therefore (this is gonna blow your mind) your connection quality will drop accordingly. While true this was not an indented effect it is nonetheless an effect. If Bungie truly wanted to improve the connection quality and decrease latency, they would matchmake with only connection in mind. Again clarifying what you are mentally incapable of perceiving. I equated connection to wealth to connect SBMM to socialism. In bungie's interest of evening out the playing field, they took the connection quality (however unintentionally) from the top quality players while maintaining higher quality connection for those that suck. Do you want to know why? I'll tell you a secret. It's because there are more bad/average players out there than good players. Imagine THAT concept. Bad players will not notice a drop in connection quality because there are so many bad players to play with. All the while, players like myself are seeing 3 red bars a game, getting shot through walls, and getting error coded even though I have 100mb hardwired into my Xbox. Bungie never intended connection quality to drop just like a fat person never intended to have heart problems. It happened anyway. Cause and effect. I lose? Check again and get back to me. You muted me because you can't keep up, that's funny. Keep licking those windows kiddo