Lol good point, I had a funny game earlier where I played players who I swear couldn't have been higher than low diamond (they tried to 1 base for 20 minutes). Was pretty ridiculous rickrolling win where we took the entire map and sat on our ass waiting for them lol. We were high masters so.... was pretty unfair mathmaking to say the least.

Cheerio

Ukraine3178 Posts

April 13 2012 06:52 GMT

#25

On April 13 2012 15:31 Bibbit wrote:

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I started out 17-6 the first day, didnt play yesteday, and then spent all day today getting my ass kicked. Maybe something to do with this? But I was playing mostly masters people the first day even though I was fresh off my promotion to diamond, so it doesnt look like I was just getting people below me before. Confusing !

I was thinking about this. Any increase in the matchmaking range will result in increased winrates for those at the top end mainly because the higher u get the more diverse and rare MMR gets, so its is much easier for the engine to find you a partner within more populated lower part of your range. On the other hand it might be the case that those immidiately below the top range will not get compensated enough because.they will be in much more demand from the upper MMR players than from the lower end ones. This is pure speculation of course.

covetousrat

2109 Posts

April 13 2012 07:03 GMT

#26

I am starting to like the new Match making but Blizzard reverted it again zzzzz

Monkeyballs25

531 Posts

April 13 2012 07:06 GMT

#27

It was quite strange to get silver>gold>plat>silver as a silver level player, instead of the silver>silver>silver>silver I got last season, and only losing 5 points to the plat and gaining 13 points from one of the silvers.

Pantagruel

United States1427 Posts

April 13 2012 07:09 GMT

#28

Not sure how I felt about the new matchmaking system to be honest. I am in gold league and I played a streak of platinums that I got soundly beaten by and it wasn't a lot of fun and I didn't learn a lot. Shortly thereafter I played a bunch of lesser players who all lost immediately to a simple 3rax push. It felt really streaky. In a way I'd like to play against superior players to improve but a lot of the time the skill gap seemed rather large and I lost so comprehensively to make it difficult to pinpoint areas where I could improve, outside of 'everything'.

DYEAlabaster

Canada1009 Posts

April 13 2012 07:12 GMT

#29

Kind of actually disappointed that they rolled this back, but I understand why.

Ville

Denmark16 Posts

April 13 2012 07:12 GMT

#30

All I figured out during this mmr change is that the skillgap between mid-plat and mid diamond is close to nonexistant.

Ogww

Finland224 Posts

April 13 2012 07:19 GMT

#31

Yeah it was weird to play high golds and in the next match mid diamonds(i'm somewhat highish platinum). Games varied so much it was hard to get in the right tempo for me :/

KRee

Canada13 Posts

April 13 2012 07:20 GMT

#32

Aw man now I can't tell myself after every loss "it's ok, he's probably just one of those higher mmr players"

Making me own up to my fuck ups, I don't appreciate it Blizzard.

Shield

Bulgaria4824 Posts

April 13 2012 07:20 GMT

#33

On April 13 2012 16:19 Ogww wrote:
Yeah it was weird to play high golds and in the next match mid diamonds(i'm somewhat highish platinum). Games varied so much it was hard to get in the right tempo for me :/

Exactly. Changes should be gradual instead of from one league to another in a super short period.

Negius

Netherlands290 Posts

April 13 2012 07:21 GMT

#34

I liked the system while it lasted, but I got several weird opponents as well (beginner-bronze and high golds, I'm silver). Maybe it would be better if you could check or uncheck the system, to turn it on or off? That way the "pro's" and the people who weren't enjoying the system, could play like they usually did.

bgx

Poland6595 Posts

April 13 2012 07:22 GMT

#35

I liked it

PolskaGora

United States547 Posts

April 13 2012 07:22 GMT

#36

I agree, I enjoyed the old system a lot more, I was playing low platinums quite often as mid diamond, and what's worse is that since most of them were Protoss, I would lose most of the time to cannon rushes and proxy gates, since not a lot of Protosses want to play PvP. Especially if they see that I'm favored on the score screen and know they can't match me micro wise, and are just looking for a promotion. But I would crush any terran or zerg opponents. Now I'm scared for my MMR, hopefully I don't get demoted. :/ Though at least I just played a few matches versus some mid diamond zergs and won them all so hopefully my MMR is back to where I started this season.

Yndigo

Austria17 Posts

April 13 2012 07:24 GMT

#37

So did I get this right? EU is still the same? Because I was really happy to get more mid and high master players, decreasing the time to promotion, as I won against a lot of them. (I am diamond.)

Dirich

Italy101 Posts

April 13 2012 07:30 GMT

#38

On April 13 2012 15:14 Malpractice.248 wrote:......

Did the new matchmaking make anxiety worse for some? Where theyd lose and be upset?

I think that what they meant the problem was is:

1. Top X (insert arbitrary number) GM, at least those in there that play competitively, would consider those matches a loss of time: arguably not much gain in rating and 10-15 minutes of practice lost playing someone that can not help them get better by playing against them.

2. Low Bronze (like, the 50 lowest ones), which already struggle with any opponent and now will only experience an increase in difficulty, since there is no one they are favored against (beeing them at the very bottom of the ladder).

Sisko

United States121 Posts

April 13 2012 07:32 GMT

#39

On April 13 2012 15:41 niteReloaded wrote:
This would be a perfectly good adition to the personal options....
"I don't mind playing weaker opponents" [ ]
"I don't mind playing stronger opponents" [X]

Sure, it would only work in cases where the weak and strong are looking for each other, but things like that make the service better.

The technology just isnt there yet.

Goldfish

2230 Posts

April 13 2012 07:32 GMT

#40

Good suggestion actually.

If (for example) one person has "I don't mind playing weaker opponents" [X] (and lets say the person is Diamond) and the other has "I don't mind playing stronger opponents" [X] (and lets say this player is Platinum), then the game could match those two up due to the options.

If the person has neither checked, they'll get matched up with the same people (within their MMR).