Apex Legends pro Ace slams Respawn over skill-based matchmaking Apex Legends professional player Brandon \u2018Ace\u2019 Winn has slammed Respawn Entertainment over their decision to add skill-based matchmaking to the popular battle royale game. Players have long suspected that the title uses skill-based matchmaking to create lobbies, but had no official proof until a developer at the company confirmed that it was enabled before the end of Season 2. Unsurprisingly, this decision has annoyed a large number of players, including NRG Esports player Ace, who called out the creators of the game in a rant during his December 1 broadcast on Twitch. When his chat mentioned the issue of SBMM, the 24-year-old was quick to share his thoughts, and immediately jumped into criticism of the developers and their choice. \u201cWhat do I think of skill-based matchmaking?\u201d the streamer read. \u201cIt\u2019s irrelevant. You don\u2019t need skill-based matchmaking in a game that has a dedicated Ranked playlist.\u201d \u201cRespawn are just f**king stupid. They\u2019re actually just doing this thing where they come out with a game, and they try to just ruin it as fast as they can. They\u2019re going for the world record of declining player bases, and honestly, they\u2019re doing a pretty decent job at it.\u201d While Ace is clearly frustrated with Respawn\u2019s decision to add SBMM to normal modes, it doesn\u2019t appear that the developers have any intention of removing the tool, with no response to the outpouring of complaints from fans of the game. Ace knows all about competing at the top of the title, securing a share of $60,000 with victory at TwitchCon San Diego back in September, and was runner up at TwitchCon Europe in April. Ace continues to compete at the highest level in Apex Legends, but he can now be certain that no matter what mode he jumps into, he\u2019ll be facing tough opponents thanks to his elevated rank as one of the game\u2019s best players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends pro Ace slams Respawn over skill-based matchmaking Apex Legends professional player Brandon \u2018Ace\u2019 Winn has slammed Respawn Entertainment over their decision to add skill-based matchmaking to the popular battle royale game. Players have long suspected that the title uses skill-based matchmaking to create lobbies, but had no official proof until a developer at […]<\/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-16161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161","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=16161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}