Just another tired Matchmaking complaint onto the pile
"Just git gud"
"Just play with LFG"
"Just play with friends"
"It's a skill issue"
"mad cuz bad"
"You should be able to 1v3 a trials team"
"It's a skill issue"
Is this really all to say? It feels like it is. Every week, without fail. While there's plenty of discussion trying to push Bungie towards some way of balancing the PvP, there's just far too many comments hand-waving it away. "There's no problem but you". "I'm getting great matches, sounds like a skill issue" says the top 3% player to the bottom 40%.
"CoD SBMM exists, and it's garbage" without even acknowledging the deeper issue that is Activision manipulating their info to guarantee a 50% win rate, bouncing the players around like Yo-Yos in order to do so.
I'm feeling the issue isn't the average player skill, it's the massive divide between top and average skills. Those in the top do NOT want to let that go. And I get it, it's nice to feel like you're a god. But even in the "Endgame" events, there's hardly any competition and it's destroying the crucible playerbase. Nobody returns after their bounties / pinnacle unless they have brain rot like I do.
It also feels like a cause for Weapon Nerf crying. Top player got creamed by a fusion shot? Nerf it. Bottom players getting destroyed by hand cannons and shotguns? Nerf it. But never touch the stomp lobbies, no, the top players need their daily We Rans. It makes me sad that there's even an "I made you this" medal that people legitimately have on their accounts.
I'm no top-skill. I'm aggressively average at best. That middle ground trying their best to find the fun in PvP, but the uncompetitive matchups take that fun away. I can improve, but in the moment when I'm matched against someone DestinyTracker labels as a Top 500 LEGEND while I'm still around Gold or Silver, that's just not happening. Same goes for stomping people who are less skilled, it's not fun. I feel bad because there's no competition. I'm creaming them, and not even trying. It's not fun.
We need to address the issue in PvP that is an entire lack of matchmaking and lobby balance. And before anyone says "Well just go work for Bungie then", they don't hire Canadians. I tried. Would absolutely love to get hired and rip out the entire weapons sandbox to start fresh again and implement SBMM. But can't, I don't live in the States.
Actually I can just save everyone the reading and post the stats. My overall KDA IS 1.34, iron banner KDA 1.47. Guess my crucible win rate……19%……I lose almost every match I play…..