Why I am upset about MMR (with analysis)
First of all, the matchmaking service is something BHVR fully control and as they said before some shadow version of MMR had been running on background for a few months already.
Second thing is dedicated servers. Guess what, they own dedicated servers and can collect all data they need. All logs, actions, match outcomes.
Basically, they potentially could get all data they needed, pre-calculate and have a good dataset before releasing MMR.
Another thing which is commonly used in the industry is production based A/B Test, when you allow some % of all player base to be matched with new MMR.
And then you increase the % over time when you see it works well, so that some random small percentage of people could have this MMR inconvenience, but not everyone.
Ranks also a great source of information. You could say they are obsolete... incorrect... maybe, in some cases, but why when I am being matched with rank 1s and a green/purple rank killer -- they are often win and when I was recently matched with tons of Rank 20th, then they usually lose?
BHVR had a ton of data to make a successful release and a huge amount of time to build a good MMR service, like 8 months?.
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