Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 players are adding their voices to the game’s “highly aggressive” skill-based matchmaking system, but are hearing nothing in return.
Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM), a system aimed at matching players with similar skills, has been a polarizing feature of the Call of Duty series for years.
Now, with the release of Modern Warfare 3, players have expressed their frustration with the aggressive implementation of SBMM in the game and said that it is affecting their gaming experience as the games are too competitive and less entertaining.
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The community sought feedback from the game developers about the game’s matchmaking and took the opportunity to flood the comments section Current AMA with developers on Reddit.
The amount of scrolling Sledgehammer Games has to do to answer a non-SBMM question in the MWIII AMA series is insane. Activision, say something about this that’s already on the record. Meaningless.
– Keshav Bhatt (@keshavbhatt) 20. November 2023
However, with the advent of the AMA, it quickly became clear that Sledgehammer Games was instructed to stay away from questions about SBMM.
Despite countless questions and comments from players asking for clarification and expressing frustration, the developers remained silent on the matter and refused to update the controversial matchmaking system.
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However, the silence shouldn’t surprise die-hard fans. More recently, Repulse, a Call of Duty player Hosted a live stream with the creators of Modern Warfare 3He was told I can’t ask about matchmaking skills.
For now, addressing concerns about skill matchmaking seems completely off the table. This angered many players About the current state of the game.
Repulje said Activision told him he couldn’t ask the CoD developers about skill-based matchmaking. One of the biggest problems in the community, and almost four years later they still refuse to talk about it. All right.
– Keshav Bhatt (@keshavbhatt) 17. November 2023
While developer Sledgehammer Games didn’t directly address SBMM in an AMA, they did come close to doing so on one occasion when they revealed plans to test the unresolved lobby in future updates to the game.
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“In future game updates, we will test the lobby without breaking a group of players to determine the performance of such changes. If these tests go well, we will explore the possibility of making them available to all players,” they wrote.
It remains to be seen if this change will be enough to satisfy the many fans who have been clamoring for a change.
