@blackyps said in Matchmaker Update:
You do realize that you with your over 2400 rating obviously fit the least in this game, right?
Yes. Again I understand that I may sound entitled, but I think the two points I mentioned earlier apply: players generally prefer to play with higher rating players in my experience, and someone at 2400 rating is less likely to find a game than someone at 1900 rating (though it's tough for those guys too!).
Also keep in mind that it's literally impossible for me to find a game with equally skilled players since there's literally not enough 2.4k players in the game to fill an 8 player game even if the highest rated players happened to magically play all at once. Ie. I "fit in the least" in every single game I play regardless of the players (actually I guess if we had yudi farms pepsi and me in a game it might be theoretically be possible to have a game where half of the players are 2400+ but the chances are pretty miniscule). If you only considered trying to minimize the rating diff between the players in the game then 2400+ players would be cut out of the match whenever possible since they are at the border of the rating range in every match.
Anyways just offering feedback from high rating perspective. Maybe I'm on too much copium, but I genuinely believe preferential matching of high rating players is better for FAF as a whole and not just to satisfy my selfish needs. I also think there's an argument to be made that it is more fair when you consider the reality of matching times. Also again I want to say that matching times are a lot better than before december, so thanks.
Please leave feedback below. I am especially interested if the situation improved for high rated players.
While we are at it I will also mention that there are quite a lot of games with a random 1200-1300 thrown in:
There are several players at the top end that feel this way. I don't know how much can realistically be done to improve the situation in TMM and I understand that I'm asking for some pretty specific fine tuning, however we used to get 1800+ custom games regularly (can probably still get them tbh!) even if the wait times were a bit longer, and I think a lot of people preferred that. Again, talking about a miniscule part of the playerbase, but to a certain extent I think high rating players cause a domino effect on other tmm players (if 2200+ stops playing tmm, then 2000+ becomes the new 2200+ and they may stop playing too and so on) so it's not all about just a small minority whining.