Matchmaking Is OFFICIALLY Broken

[Zhexos]

Greetings,

The matching system for the Feast is currently working as intended. Yoshi-P touched on how matching for the Feast is handled in a previous post.

PvP Ratings and Matchmaking

We also received a lot of feedback regarding the rating and matchmaking systems. In particular, many of you were worried about being matched with opponents of a significantly higher or lower rank. I touched on this issue briefly during the Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII, when I explained how we had intentionally expanded the matchmaking range for the preseason so that players could take part in more matches.

Patch 3.26 will see the start of Season One, and at that time we will be changing the matchmaking algorithm to ensure that you are more likely to be matched with player in the same or an adjacent tier, and only within a range of three tiers (For example, a match might include players from the bronze, silver, and gold tiers only).

However, as this will increase matchmaking times, we are currently debating whether or not we should expand the range of eligible players if a given period of time passes without finding enough participants. At the moment, we do not wish to utilize this solution, as ideally we would like all matches to be held within the same tier. We are considering our options for Season Two, and would like to hear your thoughts on the matter.

We are also planning to make several adjustments to the rating system so that, when in a lower tier, a player’s PvP rating will increase by a larger amount when they win a match, and decrease by a smaller amount when they lose a match. This will make it easier for players to advance to higher tiers, and make it harder for them to be demoted.

With that said, while we cannot promise any changes, we have relayed your feedback to the dev. team to see if further adjustments can be made to the matchmaking system so that players at similar tiers are matched better.

[SaveTheSunF1R3x]

Greetings,

The matching system for the Feast is currently working as intended. Yoshi-P touched on how matching for the Feast is handled in a previous post.



With that said, while we cannot promise any changes, we have relayed your feedback to the dev. team to see if further adjustments can be made to the matchmaking system so that players at similar tiers are matched better.

thank you for all the updates today! :3

[Chilla]

With that said, while we cannot promise any changes, we have relayed your feedback to the dev. team to see if further adjustments can be made to the matchmaking system so that players at similar tiers are matched better.

Thank you for the acknowledgement and relaying our concerns to the dev team.

[Nalien]

With that said, while we cannot promise any changes, we have relayed your feedback to the dev. team to see if further adjustments can be made to the matchmaking system so that players at similar tiers are matched better.

Can we get actual tiers? I think the current problem is that we only really have five ranks at the moment (Bronze and unranked might as well be the same thing IMO). If you make matchings really tight, then queues suffer, because Silvers are looking for Silvers... If you don't do that... You only have five ranks to play around with, you're not going to match people well like that... The result is what we currently have, where matchings are typically unbalanced and thus unfun...

Adding tiers to each rank would give you more points to play with... Suddenly, when you say "We'll match you within three ranks", that isn't so bad... If we're going Bronze > Bronze 2 > Bronze 3 > Silver > etc., then you'd be matching us much more closely than currently... Right now if I'm at Silver for example, I'm potentially matched with unranked players and Platinum players, that's really bad... If I was at Silver 2 instead? Keep the same three point difference, but now I'm matched with anything from Bronze 2 to Gold 2. That is much more likely to be within my skill level than what we currently have, which is effectively playing with the very worst or the very best...

[Naraku_Diabolos]

Greetings,

The matching system for the Feast is currently working as intended. Yoshi-P touched on how matching for the Feast is handled in a previous post.

With that said, while we cannot promise any changes, we have relayed your feedback to the dev. team to see if further adjustments can be made to the matchmaking system so that players at similar tiers are matched better.

You are definitely "the bomb."