Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
MMR is great for competitive play. This game has some level of competitive play, and it might make sense there.

The remainder of the game (outside of PvP) is not competitive, and the measures one would require in order to determine 'skill' do not exist.

I expect that your judgement of whether a player has 'learned how to play rather than getting carried' is fairly subjective. It's one of the problems that highly skilled video gamers have to live with in any MMO that does not cater exclusively to them. (Which is most MMOs. There isn't enough money to be made by catering exclusively to high-end combat skilled players. The All-PvP-All-the-Time MMOs probably come closest.)
Who mentioned being competitive? skill based matchmaking doesn't have to be for competitive modes and it would all be under the hood so you won't be epeen measuring ingame, that's the domain of fflogs. This would be just for people of similar skill level playing with eachother and not being frustrated by low skilled/bad/lazy players and those said players won't be bothered and frustrated by getting criticized by higherskilled players. Don't know why people would be against it unless you're bad and want to be carried through stuff.
All the time I see people whine that they got kicked for being bad or not playing their class properly and the other side for having to play with those people, skillbased matchmaking would alleviate those kind of complaints and we all get to play with people who want to play in a similar fashion, don't know why people would be against it.