Apex Legends player has hilarious theory for why SBMM is still in the game Skill-based matchmaking continues to wreak havoc in Apex Legends, and one player has shared a rather funny theory for why Respawn Entertainment haven\u2019t shut it off. Skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) has arguably been the most controversial addition to Apex Legends, with a large majority of the vocal player-base calling for Respawn to take it out. No one knows exactly when SBMM was enabled, but there\u2019s been more than enough evidence that it exists, with several developers themselves essentially confirming it and even going as far as to justify it. The reason why so many players don\u2019t like it is that it turns the casual playlist into a \u2018sweaty\u2019 game mode, essentially implementing a ranked-style format despite the fact that there\u2019s already a separate ranked mode. Despite all of the complaints, there\u2019s no indication that SBMM will be going away anytime soon, and one player thinks there might be a comical reason for what that\u2019s the case. Reddit user shares funny SBMM theory According to Reddit user DEA_PL\u2019s amusing theory, the reason for why Respawn haven\u2019t turned off SBMM might be because the players themselves are contributing to its seeming success. \u201cPlayers hate SBMM so they smurf. Respawn sees large uptick in players since SBMM. Respawn has data that shows SBMM works. People made SBMM not go away.\u201d Smurfing, as the user alluded to in the post, is the act of making a fresh new account to avoid matching up with higher-skilled players because the main account is already ranked too high. While the user did label the post as \u2018Humor,\u2019 it did get a lot of attention on Reddit, and many took to the comments section to discuss the possibility that there might be some validity to this theory. It wouldn\u2019t be totally out of the question; Respawn themselves have said their SBMM \u201cmight need some tuning potentially,\u201d admitting that the system may be flawed in its current state. Regardless, considering how young the game still is, and the SBMM even newer, it\u2019ll take both time and work until the system gets closer to perfection. Until then, players can at least inject some comic relief with funny theories like the one above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends player has hilarious theory for why SBMM is still in the game Skill-based matchmaking continues to wreak havoc in Apex Legends, and one player has shared a rather funny theory for why Respawn Entertainment haven\u2019t shut it off. Skill-based matchmaking (SBMM) has arguably been the most controversial addition to Apex Legends, with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}