BG Matchmaking at its finest!
NaTiSaAd
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Simply amazing. Gotta love this matchmaking system. Fighting someone more than twice my prestige.
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The game does not match by prestige per se, but to put it another way you shouldn't have faced 6k, 6k, 6k, 6k, 6k, 6k, 6k and then suddenly 15k. You should have faced 6k, 8k, 9k, 10k, 11k, 12k, 14k, 15k. Is that what you would prefer?
Take the easy wins, take the VT rewards, and be happy. Or complain about the unfair broken match system until maybe one day, when the devs get fed up with the complaints, someone decides to start giving you actually completely fair blind matches where you have to face everyone.
At this point, maybe we need the threat of that actually happening to get the majority of low roster players who are benefiting from the current system to get off the side lines and tell the players complaining about it to simmer down.
So it is less me defending Kabam's design, and more I simply understand how the mode works and is intended to work reasonably well. I'm simply informing you of why what you are seeing is not a bug and not a mistake and in fact a deliberate if not directly intentional consequence of how the system works. The system does in fact go out of its way to help you in the lower tiers, because it is designed to do so. That's what roster matching is explicitly designed to do. I believe I can speak fairly knowledgeably about that intentionality.
Also, I sometimes wish there was a "chill, dude" flag on the forums, so I could start collecting those. I often wonder if the people who "chill dude, yada yada yada Kabam apologist" people bang that one out of desperation and are hoping someone actually comes along and gives them a high five, or if they sit back with a smug smile on their face and nod, like they just put the last brush stroke on the Mona Lisa.
I have two accounts. My smaller alt account always has an easier time making it to platinum.
Now if only my boss would use OP's idea, I want to get paid the same as a highest paid person on Earch since it's not fair I get paid so much less for my hard work and effort.
However, this cannot persist indefinitely, because if it does that would mean players would be reaching higher and higher VT tiers, and then the Gladiator Circuit, and then the high tiers of the Gladiator Circuit, without actually having to face the strongest players in the game. It doesn't matter if the most skilled player in the world is currently playing a tiny Uncollected account. Battlegrounds is not looking for the fastest twitch muscles in the world. Battlegrounds is a competition looking for the strongest players period. Like it or not, that includes roster strength, because Battlegrounds like all MCOC game modes is intended to encourage roster growth. So progression and roster strength matching phases out over time, and by the time a player reaches Platinum 2 or thereabouts they are no longer protected from stronger players. They must now match against everyone in their tier just like everyone else.
Because lower strength players have been playing a distorted version of the mode where everyone else stronger than them is actually invisible, many lower strength players will get the impression that the whole point of BG is for them to play against only players similar to them, so that the best of their peers can rise to the top. However, that's not what BG is about. BG is about finding the strongest players period, and once they get past P2 they must match against and beat everyone, stronger, weaker, everyone.
This is all by design. Perfectly fair would be if there was no VT, and everyone had to match against everyone else by ELO. That is how competitions like this work basically everywhere else. The roster strength matching that the match maker performs at lower tiers is not a fair competition system, because it is not intended to be. It is intended to allow for lower strength players to participate basically in a sheltered environment. But that shelter extends only so far.
If you think that the sheltered environment should be extended all the way to the top, because "everyone" should have a chance to get to the very top, well the game and its designers disagree with you. Maybe you also think Major League Baseball should have a salary cap like the NFL because that is the only way to run a fair league. But the world doesn't have to follow your rules. The definition of "fairness" here is not "Let everyone have an equal chance at rising to the top." That is unfair to players who have spent time, energy, and money to build their rosters. Here, fair is everyone fights everyone else, and the strongest player as determined by who beats who in competition, rises to the top. And everyone else falls in line below.
That's not bullying. That's competition. If you want to beg the developers to change it, that is your prerogative. However, this is highly unlikely to happen, because they simply don't agree with your sense of fairness. If anything, they might one day make a restricted queue where players can run more even decks, but that would be completely isolated from the main competition and almost certainly have vastly lower rewards, if any.
But that’s just because the pool was so large and diverse. Especially because I pushed right away, instead of being patient and waiting until the people much better than me were out of the bracket.
Remember that just because your rating or MMR is similar to someone else, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re both evenly matched in skill or roster, because like you, that person is just moving through the brackets.