Activision Blizzard uses an intelligent matchmaking system in Call of Duty, which is essential to offer players a good experience. The specified system analyze the skill level of each player and creates balanced matches based on these skills.

This prevents players with very high skill levels from ending up facing others with very low skill levels. The same thing happens in other competitive games of very different genres, such as League of Legends, although it is plague “smurf” accounts and elo-raising services which became a real hell.

It is no coincidence that Activision Blizzard uses a system of this type, there is a good reason for it, and to demonstrate its importance, the company conducted a very interesting experiment that only confirmed its importance not only for players to enjoy a good experience, but also for prevent game failure.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare III without smart matchmaking: players quit

For a month, Activision Blizzard decided remove the smart pairing system partially in Call of Duty Modern Warfare III. This resulted in approximately 50% of North American players going up against each other in completely random matches, without any control over each player’s skill level.

In this way, a high level player and highly skilled players could face another who was not at his level, or who had even just started playing and was a true novice. The results of this experiment were very interesting, as they confirmed the rapid erosion of the player base, i.e. players They got frustrated and left the game.

It makes perfect sense because that’s what I think after all we all play for fun, and in competitive games, for everyone to enjoy it, it is necessary to create intelligent pairs that balance the games. In the end, it’s not just about skill, we have to take into account that not everyone has the same amount of time to devote to improving in specific games, and that also affects what we’ll be able to do.

Unfortunately, there are ways to bypass these intelligent systems matchmaking in many games, resorting to what is known as “smurfing”. It means to use secondary accounts which are not linked to the main account and allow a player with a high ranking main account to play against players who are well below their level.

One of the games that suffers from this problem the most is League of Legends and in recent years it has been so frustrating that I am alone I decided to stop playing it and recommend itAt the end of the day, there’s no point going into a game to have a good time only to find there is an overabundance of toxicity and high elo players masquerading as secondary accounts ruining games in silver and gold, or even lower ranks like iron and bronze.