I think this is total nonsense. That all previous Activision titles have used this method? Yeah right. All he means by "overall KDs are up" is that noobs KDs are up. Since the player base is composed mostly of noobs with below a 1KD, when they are matched up with players like themselves, their KDs will rise. And vice versa for highly skilled players with say 3 KDs, their KDs will fall when matched with players like themselves. And because there are way more noobs than skilled players, on average he can say that. And the same goes for playing time, the average noob plays longer and the average skilled player plays less, but since there are more noobs, overall average playtime is increased. He's trying to justify SBMM by throwing these facts out there, but he is looking at the overall averages and trying to make a statement that makes it all ok. The game is far better for noobs, where all aware that this game protects noobs as a marketing scheme to get more new players into the series, and as a side effect, make all long time players suffer. Condrey is trying to spin this all of as "good" and "justifiable", and will not admit that this is a marketing scheme for the game.

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