Not that this is significant given that so many other people have posted similar stories, but I found it funny that today I matched a grandmaster and platinum player back to back.

KenZo-

Faroe Islands190 Posts

April 22 2012 15:54 GMT

#282

I matched all kind of people today from silver to diamond... really strange..

Cyro

United Kingdom20285 Posts

April 22 2012 18:39 GMT

#283

I am still matching vs both gold and masters, without either having any kind of significant win/loss streaks.

BlueEagle

United Kingdom75 Posts

April 22 2012 19:14 GMT

#284

I've had dozens of platinums (and I only just got to Gold T.T), then got a bronze... if this is reverted I'd hate to have seen what it was like before :|

Cirqueenflex

499 Posts

April 22 2012 19:21 GMT

#285

well i started fresh (bronze) at monday. In 6 days with 5 games each i made it up to top platinum
so yeah, i really enjoyed it. Oh, and i only played one single game where my opponent was not favoured to win XD

Kruxxen

United States149 Posts

April 22 2012 20:01 GMT

#286

I've still had pretty erratic matches too. It doesn't really feel like they've changed it back yet to me. But I think that's good, I enjoy the variety.

ttfdrevil

United States16 Posts

April 22 2012 21:59 GMT

#287

I dunno on american ladder I've been siver since season 3. Start of season 7 it started matching me against gold. Ended when they "reverted". Had seen nothing but silver until this week. This week I played a gold and platinum along with silver. Won both - both were real games (got lucky and scouted aggressive expand in both cases so I all-in'd.

However, I wonder if match ups are result of player drop off. - I've noticed serious drop off in # of players this season based on sc2ranks statistics.

Soma.bokforlag

Sweden448 Posts

April 22 2012 22:09 GMT

#288

either my mmr is really wacky or they have reverted again because im going against bort silver and diamond players (im gold), without any real streak

Seldentar

United States888 Posts

April 22 2012 22:34 GMT

#289

I knew it! I could've sworn the matchmaking was not actually reverted at all...

I was matched vs top 12 diamond one game and the next top 10 gold lol

dUTtrOACh

Canada2339 Posts

April 22 2012 22:47 GMT

#290

I don't know what exactly Blizzard expected to happen with this. I guess some people got to experience the actual disparity between them and their opponents for once. It probably didn't feel very nice. I'm not against it, or anything, since the point potential for playing higher ranked opponents was actually pretty good. I think I won a game that netted 38 points. That's pretty badass. Too bad they're turning it back, but I guess they feel for the nubs. Getting trampled constantly must really affect the overall staying power a player has.

ttfdrevil

United States16 Posts

April 22 2012 23:09 GMT

#291

My platinum win netted me 42. Felt good after going 0-5 against last 5 silver opponents.

SynergySC2

United States27 Posts

April 22 2012 23:12 GMT

#292

im mid diamond right now and im getting matched up with high diamond and masters.. no platinum players o.O

Kruxxen

United States149 Posts

April 22 2012 23:58 GMT

#293

People need to realise that you lose less points for a loss against a higher ranked player, and also that the system wants a 50/50 ratio anyway, so playing a wider range of players doesn't affect them at all in the long run.

windsupernova

Mexico5280 Posts

April 23 2012 00:03 GMT

#294

On April 23 2012 07:47 dUTtrOACh wrote:
I don't know what exactly Blizzard expected to happen with this. I guess some people got to experience the actual disparity between them and their opponents for once. It probably didn't feel very nice. I'm not against it, or anything, since the point potential for playing higher ranked opponents was actually pretty good. I think I won a game that netted 38 points. That's pretty badass. Too bad they're turning it back, but I guess they feel for the nubs. Getting trampled constantly must really affect the overall staying power a player has.

They probably wanted people to experience more high stakes matches against super favoured opponents and then have some more fun silly games against worse opponents.Which was fine as IMO having to always play at the sameish level gets kinda boring and starts feeling more like grinding.

Dunno I liked it

StreetWise

United States594 Posts

April 23 2012 05:00 GMT

#295

I am facing diamonds and getting 2-6 points per win. This change does not feel reverted at all. Maybe its just because I am terrible, but I feel as if I either get rolled or am rolling my opponents this season. This is my 7th season as Masters.

Slapshot

95 Posts

April 23 2012 08:37 GMT

#296

I also don't think this is reverted, last week I played players ranging from mid plat to mid master as a diamond player. Had a losing streak today and just faced a regular high silver. Not a smurf, just some guy who faced silvers and golds before me....

excellionx

United States85 Posts

April 23 2012 08:58 GMT

#297

On April 23 2012 14:00 StreetWise wrote:
I am facing diamonds and getting 2-6 points per win. This change does not feel reverted at all. Maybe its just because I am terrible, but I feel as if I either get rolled or am rolling my opponents this season. This is my 7th season as Masters.

this

oxxo

988 Posts

April 23 2012 12:05 GMT

#298

Ugh. I've lost all interest in playing because pretty much every game is a stomp. It's not fun for either side.

I'm still trying to figure out why they intentionally broke pretty much the best thing about B.Net 2.0 (IMO).

Laurens

Belgium4540 Posts

April 23 2012 16:12 GMT

#299

yeah I'm having issues too
This pattern has repeated itself for the last 5 days:
I play 1-3 games vs people that are favoured or slightly favoured vs me
then suddenly all the next games I am the one that is slightly favoured

never an even match, and always in that order.
kinda sux

Fhaete

Canada15 Posts

April 23 2012 16:30 GMT

#300

I remember in the last season evenly matched games were the norm and "slightly favored" was uncommon ; now it's reversed and there are quite a lot of "favored" games. Something definitely changed in the matchmaking, it's not back to normal in my experience.