Bad Matchmaking Thread

Why is there no surrender button in the game?

This game, unfortunately, is a snowbally mess (even by MOBA standards), since items are so powerful that even relatively small differences in souls lead to power spikes so big that the game becomes one-sided, with little to no catch-up mechanics to try to reign this in. Hero design and counter item design don't help either; when expensive items are necessary to deal with certain heroes, this leads to the already losing team being in an even worse situation: they are forced into certain items that only let them survive, while at the same time being behind on souls, thus by the time they build the item the enemy is so far ahead that there is nothing anyone can do.

So I ask again, why is there no surrender option?

If this is the balancing philosophy, that's fine, but please add a surrender option; it's the second time someone I've tried to introduce to the game has quit because they are forced to remain and play awful matches that are complete stomps with zero chances of turning them around. Pair that with the fact that they can't even play the heroes they want half the time because of this weird pick system, where you aren't allowed to repeat heroes with the enemy team, and it just ends up in an incredibly frustrating experience for new players.
 
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Medium players + wraith hacker VS experienced players (ME and TEAM)

We won against hacker, but boii AUTO-PARRY, AUTO-CASTING, AUTO-UNSTOPPABLE ITEM AGAINST CURSE DETECTION. (with aimbot, trigger and map hacking etc...)

PLEASE destroy cheaters in this game
 
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You've created a glorified coin flip simulator and made the person who takes the hit by leaving (so others can leave without penalty) into a hero. Please fix your matchmaking and add a surrender option (maybe available after 10-15m?) in the meantime
 
Use this thread to share matchids for games that you think the matchmaker did a bad job at. If you can explain what you felt was a problem in it that would be helpful as well.

Do not post matchids for games that were within the past 24 hours from this post. Games older than that are fine and games going forward are fine.

Thanks for the help
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why arcanist vs accendants
 
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MatchID: 53996702

Our team is like 4-5 Spirit Glass Cannons. Only person who can maybe frontline is Warden. These players are also way too awful to peel or coordinate so we just get ran over. And somehow the enemy team seems like all competent players and I have brand new players. Nobody is doing anything on the map, everyone is playing extremely passive.

Does this game suffer from the same thing as Dota and just riddled with smurfs? Or is the matchmaking / balancing so awful it makes the game a complete stomp.

Look at their team. Some of the best heroes in the game. A great spread of different type of heroes. All of them knew how to play their hero well everyone on my team like brand new[
 
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61 to 21 kills, 70k soul difference. The other team had a lot of people who didn't seem to know that farming was a thing or how useful knockdown is. Some obvious beginners. Probably wasn't fun to get rolled.
 
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An oracle rated game average with a brand new player. It was vindictas first game ever.
The other players on our team didnt play great, but everyone has off days.
A new player in oracle lobbies isnt acceptable. There was no new player on the enemy team.
 
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73 to 26 kills. Some of the most obvious, toxic smurfs against more than one player that was clearly significantly less experienced.

Valve you should be completely ashamed of yourselves when it comes to the matchmaking and dealing with the smurfing problem.

When the matches are fine this game is a great deal of fun but queuing a game makes me wonder "is this going to be a good match or am I going to get rolled by smurfs again?" It happens far too often.
 
why is a new player in an archon lobby wtf is wrong with this matchmaking

how hard is it to start people from initiate and slowly bring them up 6 game shouldnt put you into archon considering they fed from minute 1

this poor level of matchmaking is almost unfathomable

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fix your fucking matchmaking system!
How long will this go on for?
This thread has over 531 pages and yet you guys are ignoring the problem. "Let's do cosmetics/balance/add more characters first before fixing the problem"
THE MAIN PROBLEM IS THE FUCKING MATCHMAKING!
The most common complain about the fucking matchmaking is new players playing against the more experience players. How the fuck is that fun for ANYBODY?
I have hunderds of these games where new players playing against the more experience. Let me tell you, it's shitty time when you're on that team with the new players.
The new players should be playing with other new players. As a product of Valve, you have other products out there that have better matchmaking system. Maybe you guys should take some that inspiration and implement it into your system.
This game has been in development for over 6 years and yet you can't get your matchmaking system, right? You guys have the wrong priority
 
why are groups and non-groups play together? and why on gods green earth are we putting ppl who just came back with people who are continuing to play
If you go into their discord channel. There is a code in the discord channel that you can use to play against solo people.
 
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