How about tempering the streaks?

It's frustrating to to go through 10-20 matches with a 10% win ratio. The answer to this well known issue is always the same advice: "stop playing for a while, come back, luck usually changes." Why would the devs want any user to put down their app? Sure it inevitably balances out with a 90% win ratio over a similar 10-20 matches later on, but wouldn't it be better to mix up the matches a little more to keep users engaged? There is a manipulated 50% win/loss ratio, might as well use it to the best advantage for the app.

 

Matchmaking isn't always a factor in the losses. The suicidal player, floaters, disconnected players are also a factor. I think losing streak is normal on some degree. It will eventually balance out with win streak. Since devs don't have control over the players behavior, it is not possible for their algorithm to make any individual's win ratio 50% unless you can suggest some sort of idea.

 

I’ve thought about this a lot. Dropping infamy ‘should’ already give you easier matches, in theory; but in practice you can have some pretty long streaks, where mistakes, luck, floaters, and teammates all seem to conspire to keep the streak going.

I don’t know if you can really give people on a losing streak any kind of advantage to break it, because that might be open to abuse.

One thing I was thinking might help, is if you could maybe reset your own infamy.

Considering deliberate infamy dropping is discouraged by removing rewards, it seems odd that players should be allowed to drop loads of infamy, when they’re not even trying to.

Perhaps there could be an option to pay something like 25 pearls, and it will reset your infamy to your average. It could be limited to one use per week/season.

It might not help you break the streak, but I think it would help with the frustration, as you wouldn’t need to spend ages grinding your way back up to your average.