Warzone accused of \u201cwhitelisting\u201d streamers after data reveals easier lobbies ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone players are knee-deep in conspiracies and rage after recent fan investigations revealed data suggesting that streamers get easier lobbies than normal players. Now, \u201cwhitelisting\u201d is the topic du jour. As we know better than most, if you post a clip of a Warzone streamer pulling off a highlight play \u2014 the majority of responses will be about them being in a \u201cbot lobby.\u201d It\u2019s become a running theme among vocal fans, who seem convinced Warzone\u2019s best somehow always get lobbies against Warzone\u2019s worst. So this was bound to happen. Somewhere in the intersection between CoD players and data analysts, a Redditor decided to analyze their lobby data and compare it to the stats for big-name streamers. And the results of that study are fairly shocking. After Reddit\u2019s \u2018Quaisy\u2019 revealed their findings, both posts have been deleted, but not after thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments \u2014 most noting the proof that streamers get \u201cwhitelisted\u201d and gifted easier lobbies. Warzone streamers \u201cwhitelisted\u201d for easier lobbies? After their Reddit post got deleted, Quaisy took to YouTube to dive into their data. The player, after running into some problematic lobbies, decided to compare their previous 64 matches to that of pros and content creators like Aydan and Tfue. Perhaps unsurprising to some, the data is\u2026 interesting. Quaisy has an above-average 1.75 K\/D (kill-death ratio), which is negligible compared to the 4-plus K\/Ds enjoyed by the professionals. Still, the only big streamer who had harder lobbies on average was ScummN. On the contrary, streamers like Tfue had relatively easy lobbies. While only about 4.7% of Quaisy\u2019s games had an average lobby K\/D under 1.1, Tfue got lobbies underneath that range in a whopping 65.6% of his matches. And that\u2019s despite his K\/D being a nasty 4.33. That second kill \ud83d\ude33 @TTfue proving why the Milano is Warzone’s newest AR pic.twitter.com\/vnbwDI1l6b \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) June 27, 2021 Of course, the data only takes into account 64 matches so it has to be taken at face value. CoD\u2019s developers are very private about how SBMM (skill-based matchmaking) works in their titles, so it\u2019s impossible to know exactly how lobby strength is determined. But Quaisy\u2019s research brings up some interesting discussion points and the community is centering on one conclusion: that streamers are \u201cwhitelisted\u201d and given easier lobbies so that they can make better content. If that\u2019s the case, a lot of people\u2019s conspiracy theories have been justified. If it\u2019s not the case, Activision may need to step in and tell people how SBMM really works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone accused of \u201cwhitelisting\u201d streamers after data reveals easier lobbies ActivisionCall of Duty: Warzone players are knee-deep in conspiracies and rage after recent fan investigations revealed data suggesting that streamers get easier lobbies than normal players. Now, \u201cwhitelisting\u201d is the topic du jour. As we know better than most, if you post a clip of […]<\/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-32924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924","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=32924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}