If you bothered reading, they modified it, the closer you reach the higher/lower ends of the MMR system the more closely your opponents will be in skill. People who are in between those extremes (majority of the sc2 player base) will be effected by these changes. You being high masters should be facing similar skilled opponents more frequantly. Gold, plat and diamond should be the most effected by the change.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

April 24 2012 03:01 GMT

#25

Matchmaking will not be more relaxed at the highest skill levels. In fact, we’ve tuned matchmaking at the very high end to favor more competitive matches over faster matchmaking. While this may have some impact on match wait times, we believe that this adjustment will improve the ladder experience for high level players and make practicing on the ladder better than it has ever been.

Awesome for pros. They can fit in more ad revenue while the matchmaker takes longer to find them games, and the games should be much more entertaining to watch and better to play for them.

the`postman

United States1643 Posts

April 24 2012 03:04 GMT

#26

Hate this change, tired of getting games worth +3/-20 points at low masters, much rather play an even match vs an opponent at my level than getting crushed by a much better player or getting cheesed by a worse one.

Oerbaa

Scotland184 Posts

April 24 2012 03:11 GMT

#27

Has this already come into effect, sitting in gold on Eu and i played a high Silver then next game a mid Diamond, looked at boths match history and the Silver plays Golds/Plats and the Diamond plays Plats/Diamonds :S, was wondering what was up lol ???

Kirbtacular

United States64 Posts

April 24 2012 03:17 GMT

#28

Awesome, playing against better people is always good practice, and playing against worse people is always good for making you feel better!

BluemoonSC

SoCal8910 Posts

April 24 2012 03:24 GMT

#29

looking forward to seeing the effects!

honestly, though..i dont look forward to having to scout lower league players and getting hit with bizarre timings and rushes.

shockaslim

United States1105 Posts

April 24 2012 03:24 GMT

#30

I was wondering why I was playing mid-tier golds today when I am high plat.

Harbinger631

United States376 Posts

April 24 2012 03:25 GMT

#31

Love the changes, I get to see if I can keep up with higher ranked players and I get to hydra/nydus the lower league ones.

AirbladeOrange

United States2573 Posts

April 24 2012 03:26 GMT

#32

Sounds good to me.

Badfatpanda

United States9719 Posts

April 24 2012 03:29 GMT

#33

Negatively impacted? Unless they're changing something this is still bullshit. 4 games in a row I go from playing Fenrir and SeleCT to 2 fucking diamonds one of whom 4 gates and I lose 22 points? Highest level? What do I have to be? HuK? It was a good idea in theory but they have to work on the execution still, way too many of my matches are starting with me favored, you have to use completely different builds and it give little practice, often ending in frustration regardless of if I win or lose. All these +5 points half of the people can't even build workers worth a damn if they don't allin.

silverstyle

Singapore1108 Posts

April 24 2012 03:44 GMT

#34

Its pretty lame on a small population server like SEA. 1 match im facing like high diamond next match im facing opponents that are not even high silver. Thats with me being high plat.

Worse thing is at silver all ins are really common so theres a good chance I might get 6 rax marine/scv all-in and lose like 20 pts because of that. Even if i hold them off it takes me so long to win them after that its not remotely worth the 5 pts. Its pretty stupid.

Not working as intended would be a euphemistic way of putting it.

itkovian

United States1763 Posts

April 24 2012 03:53 GMT

#35

Nice, sounds like they have everything working as intended now. I like playing people a little outside my skill range. I thought it was a little weird when I was playing PainUser earlier o_O Thankfully I only lost 3 points for it haha

covetousrat

2109 Posts

April 24 2012 04:07 GMT

#36

Good change finally.

BeeNu

615 Posts

April 24 2012 04:12 GMT

#37

So pointless, I don't think anybody really had a problem with the way the matchmaking originally worked why does Blizzard feel the need to make these useless changes meanwhile there's dozens of other horrible flaws with Bnet that continue to go ignored.

inFeZa

Australia556 Posts

April 24 2012 04:41 GMT

#38

RIP SEA Grand Master League.
already takes like 2 hours to get a game....

TheAngelofDeath

United States2033 Posts

April 24 2012 04:49 GMT

#39

This is still rly annoying T_T at mid masters I play a ton of top masters, played a couple GM's, and now I'm playing diamonds. I don't like this at all. :/