Outwitter Burnout

[wonderpug]

(11-19-2012 09:35 AM)Alvendor Wrote:  Another reason is the lack of variety. The matchmaking among the top players is broken so you either play the same player all the time

This was the biggest reason I stopped playing actively. It felt like I was playing the same 3-5 people over and over. I could see players that were some of my funnest matches to play on the top 100 list, just a few ranking #s higher than me, but apparently out of my league as far as the matchmaking algorithm was concerned.

What breathed new life into the game for me was switching out of ranked mode and playing random unranked matches again. Sure, sometimes the skill difference is high, but I had a couple losses to people who were playing "poorly", because they tried a crazy tactic that I didn't bother preparing a defense for because nobody would be crazy enough to do it. Those were fun losses. It again gave exactly that sense of "exploring new strategies and meeting opponents with styles you've never seen before" that we both miss.

The other thing I really miss is the sense of progression I got from climbing up the leagues. It's really nice to have the Top 200 lists published, and to have that to climb, but again, the top player matchmaking issues make that a very very repetitive ladder to climb.

Still, I'm really looking forward to seeing a new team, and seeing the FTA issues addressed. I love the game enough to actively monitor the forums even though I'm not so actively playing, so it won't take much to draw me back in.