DevReply I think matchmaking is ok.

When you share a replay with guild, do the different members view the replay with their respective latency?

Is the replay actually a "video recording" or a "player input" recording?

I shared a video of a blast cannon shot landing in the water next to me, but killing me. My guild mate said it was nothing, the blast cannon has big hit scan. I'm led to believe he watched the replay and it hit my ship, but every time I watch the replay it lands in the water next to me (watching in free range mode, from my perspective, and from the other player's perspective)

 

If I understood correctly, yes!

 

Thanks for giving me a shot to investigate and reply. So I spoke with my PM and had him download and play the game, which he is actually enjoying very much

He responded pretty quickly though that he is confident that the win/loss ratios are being artificially manipulated and gave me some examples of how they did it in some of the games his team developed. I googled some of the terms he mentioned and was surprised how sophisticated games designs have been for a long time now, to the point that the theories floating around here that seemed too complex, are actually pretty simple to do. He also had a good point, Rovio’s income aside, if we progressed through BB to quickly, we would get bored and quit. In the alternative, if we began losing to much, people get angry, and once again, quit. So it’s understandable that a game designer would use Dynamic game difficulty balancing (aka dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA), dynamic game balancing (DGB), etc, to find a balance for players. My only gripe, is that I like to know the rules of the game, not here bogus statements that they don’t manipulate the game. Although, it’s also not good for business to tell the players that their win/loss is partially out of their hands, hence the runaround!

Here are some interesting links:
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing
• http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/pubs/Hamlet.pdf
• https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1c18/5672690f2bef1ce70063f60a24b80e545e63.pdf

 

I appreciate the comprehensive reply, and I am not questioning your integrity or attempting to spread fake news, it’s not like I have a competing product that I am trying to recruits business for. By character, I try to get to the bottom of things, even things as trivial as a game. I have played almost 6k games and have noticed things that are inconsistent, that’s all. For example, if you look at the 30+ game result screenshots I posted earlier in this thread, you will see my stats vs the rest of the players. It’s mathemetacally strange to see an almost perfect 50/50 balance among the players without any external controls, and if you reference those mentioned screenshots, even though I was usually, the #1, the team repeatedly lost. When I consulted my PM, he mentioned it would be pretty easy to offset the aim points for example, for a team that needs to be balanced downwards, however, you have stated the B.B. does not do this.

In any case, I still enjoy B.B. and think it’s a very fun game, and I apologize for bringing up this topic.

 

Thank you for allowing me to post, I did my final reply Mikka. Most internet sites get uncivilized pretty quickly, I guess it’s easy when no one can see a face. In any case, this all comes from a genuine curiosity. Again, thanks, it was cool of you!

 

You know, I’ve had the opposite experience as well. I am literally hitting almost every shot for back-to-back games. I know I’m not that good haha

 

Huh? At Clash Royale I'm getting matched against others 1 Level above me 50% of the time, and 2 Levels above me 20% of the time. 10% of the time I'm clashing against someone 1 Level below me.

 

Ssshh! They are going after you. And Blizzard hates Priests. They HATE them!