As a low bronze player, with 20 or so wins to my name in about 100 games over several seasons I'm being matched against high silver, and low gold players. Players with hundreds of wins during this season. I don't play enough to have much of a gripe, but it takes a lot of the fun out of the game when an inexperienced player like me is matched against players clearly above my skill, and experience level. I have seen 3 bronze players in my 15 or so games on ladder this season, and none of them were ranked below the top 20. And I'm rank 44. Previous seasons the highest ranked players I saw was mid silver, and I finished in the top 20 of my bronze ladder. As it stands now I have won 2 games this season, against a high bronze and low silver players. One of which worker rushed me after I had build my frontal wall. It's not fun to play a game when I have little to no chance to win on the ladder. I mostly play SC2 for the custom games now, which makes me sad to be honest. Just my 2 copper.

iAmJeffReY

United States4262 Posts

April 24 2012 22:31 GMT

#222

This is awesome. I've been grinding on KR trying to relearn the game, the real way. To stop my cheesy aggression builds that let me win just by over powering the micro and multitasking of my enemy. Nothing is better than facing a mid+ masters on KR, that just SMOKES my fucking face off.

This is actually a fun little change, it's making the range of people from a good diamond to 400 apm monsters.

Rachnar

France1526 Posts

April 24 2012 22:32 GMT

#223

This sucks, i play vs gm players and diamond now rofl, dia are walkovers.... 3 emp's vs the last guy had 20 infestors out of energy

DrHiggins

United States26 Posts

April 24 2012 22:53 GMT

#224

I'm in Bronze so this has no effect on me. Though I did play a diamond today that was tanking his MMR. Almost won too xD

Poisonblack

452 Posts

April 24 2012 23:04 GMT

#225

The range is too wide!

Please blizz stop tinkering with one of the only things Bnet 2.0 did well...

jnkw

Canada347 Posts

April 24 2012 23:07 GMT

#226

Sigh...

http://imgur.com/YFA5n

Lafer

United States114 Posts

April 24 2012 23:11 GMT

#227

So... I play a high diamond and lose to an all in... I then play a mid gold and roll him... this is too random... I keep playing diamond to gold, diamond to gold, diamond to gold, regardless of whether I beat the diamond or not. How am I supposed to improve like this?

Blindo

United States102 Posts

April 24 2012 23:12 GMT

#228

The one thing battle.net got right was the matchmaking system, and now they've even fucked that up. Though I've noticed in mid masters that it's gotten better than it was a few days ago.

Bloody101

United States13 Posts

April 25 2012 00:05 GMT

#229

Ugh not fun being High diamond and then having to play plats. I don't think blizzard understands the skill differences between leagues and even within own leagues. I am now randomly getting plats that I steamroll and it just feels so counter intuitive to trying to get better. Now I am getting practice from being that are a much lower skill level than I am. Not fun

krnboyxjin

United States98 Posts

April 25 2012 00:27 GMT

#230

changes or no changes i win ne ways eeeeeezzzzz

gruff

Sweden2276 Posts

April 25 2012 00:35 GMT

#231

On April 25 2012 09:05 Bloody101 wrote:
Ugh not fun being High diamond and then having to play plats. I don't think blizzard understands the skill differences between leagues and even within own leagues. I am now randomly getting plats that I steamroll and it just feels so counter intuitive to trying to get better. Now I am getting practice from being that are a much lower skill level than I am. Not fun

So you getting paired up against better players as well is irrelevant?

hangene92

Canada258 Posts

April 25 2012 00:38 GMT

#232

i was playin on my other account which is silver, and im playin vs top 8 diamond :S

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

April 25 2012 02:00 GMT

#233

On April 25 2012 08:07 jnkw wrote:
Sigh...

http://imgur.com/YFA5n

Wow.

Based on a lot of the comments (and my own experience), I feel the bounds for matchmaking have been set a bit too wide now.

Talack

Canada2742 Posts

April 25 2012 02:04 GMT

#234

On April 25 2012 11:00 whatthefat wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wow.

Based on a lot of the comments (and my own experience), I feel the bounds for matchmaking have been set a bit too wide now.

I agree.

This (in the above screen shot) has happened to me a few times. Do not want it to ever happen. Honestly the match-making system was completely fine for me personally before, all matches felt like my appropiate skill level. Now it's huge swings in both directions.

excellionx

United States85 Posts

April 25 2012 02:33 GMT

#235

my match-ups haven't had a drastic skill difference yet, either high diamond or masters..odd

edit: shortly after, got promoted to masters

papapanda

Taiwan326 Posts

April 25 2012 02:39 GMT

#236

I am in Platinum and I was matched up against silvers and diamonds. I enjoyed playing them all!
I can obviously see I am being outplayed vs diamonds and outplaying silvers but this just show myself where my gameplay is currently at and I do like to see how I do against different tier opponents.
At least now with the new matchmaking system I have no worries of going on another 8 lose streak. Absolutely loving the new matchmaking!

HeroMystic

United States1217 Posts

April 25 2012 02:42 GMT

#237

Been occasionally playing Diamonds (which I like), but also been playing Silvers as a Platnium player.

Weren't they reverting back to the old methods?

Bibbit

Canada5377 Posts

April 25 2012 02:55 GMT

#238

I guess this has taught me how small the difference is between high platinum and mid-masters.

Been playing top 8 plat and rank 30~ masters (this season and last) and they really seem about the same. =/

Dboss

United States2 Posts

April 25 2012 03:24 GMT

#239

dont like it..sure i get a streak at times but the system eventually realizes that and i get paired up with top 8 players that are a higher rank than me