Match ID: 31132874
Very high skill gap game. I am phantom 4 put into oracle 1 lobby. I had one other phantom/ascendant player and the rest of the teammates were archon/emissary.
Two teammates each ended up going 0-8 in laning phase as they were put against the other teams high rank players...
Match ID: 30913873
Every other lane fed all. Possibly the most unbalanced match i've ever seen. 2 players with 0 kill participation, and 4 players with 2 or below kill participation. I don't know how I can solo queue at phantom 5 and still get games at this low quality.
Match ID: 30715967
Highest skill gap game I think i have ever seen. Some ascendant players next to players who play in emissary/archon games
Had players that went
0-14-2,
3-11-0,
0-7-2
completely out of their depth and getting stomped by the high rank players
MatchID: 30607215
I am phantom 4 rank put into oracle 2 average game. Two of the players, which i assume are the low rank ones dragging the average down, went 2-14 and 4-14 (14k and 23k damage) in a 52 minute game. These super wide skill gap games are not fun.
Artifacts playerbase fell and never recovered. Just because it's valve doesn't mean it's going to succeed.
I think adding a pick draft will help, at least at the higher levels, for player retention