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Skill based matched making is an attempt to use math to setup matches between players in which things are fair and the player who plays best, wins.
Its popular because its an attempt at improving matchmaking that is better than randomly throwing people together. Picture a brand new player and a veteran player forced to play together. No one is having fun, the new player is killed easily which is boring, and the veteran is frustrated that his teammate sucks, which is boring.
People online hate it for two main reasons.
1. We are humans, we don’t want fair matches, we want matches where we can win most of the time but not feel like we went against robots set to easy. We are not evolved enough to admit this to ourselves and let emotion take over.
2. Matchmaking is incredibly complex and lots of games just do a bad job of it. Beyond that it’s a balancing act between waiting time and quality of match. How many players are playing right now that are a good fit for you? How long will you wait for the perfect match? Different answer for everyone.
My 2 cents on the issue is that with AI becoming better than the best in the world at all sorts of games, we can hopefully incorporate that into bots in games. This would allow for very competent and quick matchmaking even when people aren’t available.
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