I don't believe the Tweet. It was either a lie, or the person tweeting simply didn't get the correct info himself. There are numerous people who are excellent Crucible players and who found enough proof that the matchmaking itself changed. They have routers which can show you to where you get connected geographically. What those guys constated, was a clear geographical shift in terms of the player base. This wouldn't be that remarkably, if the shift wouldn't get accompanied with much more competitive matches. It's one thing if the player base is too small for strict regional matchmaking, it's something completely different however, if the global matchmaking let's you battle opponents with a similar skill. This got further tested later on, by players making new PSN/XBL accounts. Those guys would have a level 5 guardian, and get 40 kills a game. Until a certain threshold of stat collection is overcome, this would continue. But then suddenly after the 10th-15th game, the matchmaking got faaaar stricter and said guardians with new accounts started to face much better opponents. There was also no turning back. After the threshold was overcome, said players wouldn't face "noobs" anymore. If it would be the Sparrow league, it shouldn't matter if you have a new or old account. You would always get matchmade with good opponents. So why does this change when you have a new account? Obviously because skills gets factored in far more heavily than before. Now let's just pretend it's only SLR: Then the game mode has to disappear forever. If SRL/SLR makes it as such that the rest of the Crucible is unplayable, then the mode has no raison d'être. This is a shooter, not a 5€ PSN sci fi racing game with 2 tracks.

I believe Bungie does lie to us. I think this points to a bigger problem. Bungie's attempts at making destiny competitive is ruining the game. This isn't halo. It's not supposed to be balanced, it's supposed to be fun. I think the push towards competitive play has completely screwed up destiny. And this new skill based matchmaking is only another symptom of the bigger problem.

False. Guardian.gg shows that destiny crucible is as healthy as it has been for the past couple of months.

No. He said that everyone is in SRL.

Really? Did they actually do that? So only good players are playing currently?

No.

Yes they did

[quote]Yes they did[/quote] [quote]https://twitter.com/_mantis_/status/676947247226101763[/quote] Where in the above do they say below? [quote]There was no change to the algorithm, people just aren't playing anymore. Low playlist population means the game is finally dying.[/quote] Oh, that's right. They didn't. You just made that shit up.

How dense are you that you can't understand "there aren't enough people playing to populate the matchmaking properly". I'm sorry you feel so emotionally attached to this game that hearing that player populations are down has upset you this much. If you get this worked up over a video game, life is going to be very hard for you. I suggest you learn some proper coping skills instead of playing video games.

[quote]How dense are you that you can't understand "there aren't enough people playing to populate the matchmaking properly". I'm sorry you feel so emotionally attached to this game that hearing that player populations are down has upset you this much. If you get this worked up over a video game, life is going to be very hard for you. I suggest you learn some proper coping skills instead of playing video games.[/quote] I don't even play anymore fam. I play fallout and battlefront. But here's the difference between me and you. You think that being condescending and using ad hominem attacks validates your point. I think it just makes you look like you lack real life experience. Here's reality. You claimed Bungie admitted that they have low population and therefore the game is dying. When in reality, Bungie didn't admit anything of the sort. They said the population was playing some other game mode. That's not an admission to low population. If you want to argue that you can infer that? Cool, whatever. But Bungie didn't admit that they have a low or falling population and that's why you're full of shit.

I highly doubt that SRL is consuming the player base to the point of breaking matchmaking. It's not substantial enough to explain away matchmaking issues do to low player numbers. The only logical explanation is a crumbling player base. Bungie was just trying to not admit it by putting a positive spin on SLR when we all know millions of people are not exclusively sparrow racing. They are playing games with titles other than Destiny.