they didnt ecourage it, it was asked. a lot of the time the community says they dont listen,
then when they listen to their players , here people like you come saying " we dont want it " CLEARLY a lot of people do want it regardless of if its brain rot or not.
they gave the people what they asked for
They used those weapons because they were fun to use stats didnt matter as much ( esp in mp ). There are always weapons that are technically better, in this game the HAN probably the easiest gun to use and if No one knew how weak it was for sure, it would get used more ( im sure its going to be the CDL choice of weapon regardless ) but everyone using the cronen O ( for warzone ) because in that mode, the stats matter significantly more
my thoughts:
Does sbmm suck ? Sure, as a mid to upper tier player i also have good games and bad games. the diversity in playing though is on the people playing the game however.
being ' FORCED ' to use meta loadouts is a preference thing, Withought SBMM i 100 percent believe everyone would still be using whatever the best loadouts are specifically based on the fact that we have content creators who tell people what the best guns are to use. If you are not camo grinding you will use the guns that either have low recoil / high damage or whatever gun you are most comfortable with.
unless you absolutley do not know what those weapons are, the mass of player will still USE the weapons their favorite top level streamers use because of the allure of being just like them. People are sheep for the most part, People at one time wanted to be like Jordan, Kobe , Curry , Lebron . People want to dance like Michael Jackson, Chris Brown, throw a football like Aaron Rodgers , Tom Brady.
in call of duty, people want to Move like Joe Wo, Frag like Biffle, nuke lobbies like swag and WIN games like Scump and hisoka. Content creators live off making meta videos , strat videos that people Watch and provide them with jobs that lead to people learning about the information that people like J GOD and xclusive Ace provide. in a world where people want the game to play like how OLD cods played, that would mean The world would have to be like it was back in the OG days, Its not that way. Half the problem of SBMM is on the players itself in my opinion. More people are better at the game naturally right now than it was back in 2007 and theres more exposure than ever.
there used to be millions of players who didnt have a clue about what could be done in the game, now a lot of people do. The Diversity of the lobbies are not in question soley because of SBMM, the players have to take some of that responsibility.
Half of the players i play with dont play the game for the same reasons anymore and should they not achieve what they want they will just leave anyway and we are only populating the game with mid to upper tier players and they have to salvage the lower tiers because well, they will leave. call it soft but without them in my opinion the game dies.
My 2 cents: SBMM means you keep playing the same game against the same people (ie people who play the same way and the skill as you even if they are different players) so the games lack diversity especially when the constant challenge keeps players playing the meta instead of diversifying their load outs. You also never feel your self get better because the games are always the same difficulty. As you get better so does everyone in your lobbies. There is more to it of course. Ranked is a great place for SBMM but in pubs I'd rather play against a diversified lobby. Generally there will be some people better than you and some worse. And for me that is what made older CoDs more fun because SBMM was minimal.
@RuggedTheDragon@its_bilo not saying im personally FORCED to used the meta, No one is forced to use the best weapons in the game, outside of camo grinding.
however because of TTK discrepencies, even if you werent a camo grinder and wanted to play somewhat competitive, yeah
The tracking was on purpose. There is more to it than just what you mentioned. I would be prestige master but I travel and do other things. I’m bout to be prestige 6 so imagine if I just worked and gamed but that’s besides the point. You are apart of the pile of people who probably are in the know and you are on the side of the people I speak on.
If there was nobody telling you how to be good or what the weapons are to use , the playing field would be more even. Also if you have a high KD you have more good games than anyone else statistically, the actual experience is different. You also probably play like it’s a tournament or at minimum try to do the absolute best you can. I don’t know your kd. Maybe it’s down from last year because the game plays absolutely different. But if you are prestige master by now, you either have a lot of time to put into the game or you are good enough to garner high scores.
Call of duty doesn’t know you personally so all they have is “ the data “ to go off. Yes they ask about the experience itself but they can’t base or trust off the words of people saying their experience sucks when they statistically are having more good games than bad