


" I don’t mind playing against people that are similar to me in skill, but at least tell me where I stand in comparison to others globally. I’m dead after playing for 9 hours," 100 Thieves CEO and CoD pro Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag tweeted a day after release.

We’re gonna drive so many big creators away, these games have been no joke. "I truly believe it is imperative that Treyarch dials back the difficulty of lobbies. Skill-based matchmaking, they argue, takes their agency away, forcing them into a purgatory of having to play their "best" every single game. With the release of Cold War last week, a number of notable streamers have echoed Abner's criticisms. "I’m not trying to play Scuf wielding game fuel chugging demons with szn in their psn on Miami TDM."Ībner wasn't the only esports pro to take issue with this system. There should be a ranked playlist for people to sweat in," he tweeted as the alpha weekend was coming to a close. In other words, the Black Ops Cold War alpha was purposefully matching Abner up against players with players who were just as good as him. Skill-based matchmaking, as you can guess, is a type of multiplayer matchmaking system in which players' are pitted against other players of similar skill level.
