this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
51 points (94.7% liked)

Games

16680 readers
652 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
51
Activision Blizzard released a 25 page white page document with an A/B test from early 2024 where they kept loosening the constraints of SBMM and monitored retention and turns out everyone hated it. (www.activision.com)
submitted 3 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The key issue that's hard to address is making a hard fought loss feel more valuable than any other loss and not worse than any other fight.

Some games a hard fought fight can look like rushing to the point, getting a kill and a trade and then spectating either the rest of the match or the 20s respawn timer before making the 30s run back to the point, rinse and repeat. This might mean you're "playing" for less that you 10% of the time you actually spend in the match.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That has more to do with game design than matchmaking, but yes, it’s hard to balance games so that dying has consequence but isn’t too un-fun.

[–] Cyberspark@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It is, but it's critical to causing the goal of SBMM being desirable on both ends