Quote Originally Posted by Neoyoshi View Post
I was curious about what SBMM even meant, so I googled, and....



Yeah, after reading that, I believe that's all the context I needed regarding the landscape of this discussion.

I don't mean to sound dismissive, but this type of system sounds and reads like it's designed for competitive wargames and eSport-driven fps games.

This game has been doing just fine for so long, why would the game need this this all of a sudden now?
I tried to use this as the reason why it wouldn't work outside of JP. That enough of the NA/EU crowd would try and cheese it so they wouldn't feel judged. Just because someone could play at a C+ (if we were to give a skill level example) doesn't mean they'd want to deal with those who might be closer to the B- while still be in the C+ range. And therefore purposely perform worse just so they can relax. Or whatever you want to use for such behavior. While also stating that we already see this when it comes to alliance raids where people purposely lower their ilv so they only get the CT raids. Heck I'm still fairly sure we saw/still see it in the Feast. So, even though I'd be curious enough to see where such a system would put me I still don't think it would work as well as the OP thinks or hopes for.