Kabam actually doesn't understand matchmaking and game making

I played games with matchmaking at its core, PvP games like LoL, PUBG

Those are industry standards, gold standards in fact

In LoL, you reach a higher tier based on points, say 5,000 players qualify for the highest tier by accumulating enough points to qualify for that tier, they are all in the highest tier

In battlegrounds GC, it's very different, you have limited slots per tier, you get into celestial bcos you have higher points than mysterium players

This changes player behaviour greatly, camping when you have enough points, matchmaking becomes dead when celestial players start camping

Celestial players are screwed this coming season without Beroman providing reliable matchmaking at the top, every celestial player is going to have long waiting time especially when celestial players start camping to lock in the rewards

Beroman doesn't camp even when he is C1

There is a vicious cycle, when players start facing long waiting time, they may just stop queuing and go play other modes den there will be less players to match against, I see it happen before bcos the viewers start dropping when there is long queue time, the streamer has to be really good at talking to entertain the viewers but not everyone can do that

You can don't believe me, just watch the celestial players livestream and see how long it takes to get a match especially in the last few days when everyone starts camping

There are just 250 slots from C1 to C6, that is just not enough players for matchmaking

But wait there are mysterium players as well right

Unfortunately if you win against mysterium players as a celestial players, you may just get 4 points for winning and lose 16 points if you screw up, I don't know how the system calculate the points payout bcos Kabam doesn't reveal the formula but you understand what I'm saying, Liam also mentioned that in his video even in matches among celestial players, the points gain starts dropping to 2-4 points

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Buttehrs

Those games are centered around pvp. Pvp only type games. Its not a good comparison to mcoc where we only have one semi- pvp mode.

PantherusNZ

Didn't they make a change whereby if you don't keep playing while in GC you start to lose points, in an effort to specifically deter camping?

JESUSCHRIST

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2940703#Comment_2940703

Kabam calls it points decay but that idea wasn't carried out for whatever reasons

Amanda_Cruze

You lost me when you mentioned that merc name.

Anyways its good that the merc is retired now after crying for not being in CCP

JESUSCHRIST

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2940695#Comment_2940695

I agree with that point

Mcoc started out as PvE, majority of the game is still PvE

It is not a PvP game

This is the only game I seen that has players camping as a strategy bcos it is so beneficial

You gain more by not playing or playing the least you can

Players are not competing against each other actually, players are beating the system to win bcos players are smart

Camping benefits actually outweigh the risk of playing and losing points

JESUSCHRIST

Part 2

Battlegrounds is the only game I seen with a hybrid system for a matchmaking based game, VT and GC

Making GC players start at Diamond 5 so smaller accounts are matched against them in early season, it’s really bad playing experience for smaller accounts no wonder battlegrounds is a niche mode, some players hate battlegrounds bcos they don’t get to win, matchmaking is distorted in early season

Some GC players stop pushing into GC early and overstay in VT, causing more pain for smaller accounts even in the last 7 days of the season

Around 40,000 players make their way into GC with roughly 1 million active players, you are the top 4% of the entire playerbase when you reach GC, radiance is reward for being the top 4%
There are definitely more than 40,000 players playing battlegrounds as many don’t make it into GC before 28 days

Battlegrounds will never be a popular game mode by design, it is designed to make smaller accounts lose and lose badly, by my estimates 30k prestige is minimum for comfortable progress through VT, 27k to 29k prestige requires victory shields for assistance

Maybe that’s the intention of Kabam, to make it hard for smaller accounts to access radiance which is a premium competitive currency