Tl;dr: Social playlists won’t solve all your problems. It’s still useful. Things like grouping with friends of varying ranks, warmups, non-competitive game modes and such. If you want it so you feel like a better player than you really are, or for easier wins, then you’re in it for the wrong reasons.
So I normally do not post much on the forums. I read every once in a while. Lately I’ve been reading people complain that there is no social playlist. Why is this desired so much?
What I have seen so many post about is that they are getting killed too easily. Or that they have to try hard in order to compete. Or, ridiculously, they want to dominate other players. Isn’t this why we have a skill based matchmaking system?? So you get matched with players near your skill level. So people don’t get destroyed every match and people don’t dominate every match.
Its kind of a contradiction isn’t it? You want to coast through and not be a try hard but you still want to win and be better than the competition? Sounds like you want to be competitive to me. You don’t like getting killed and going negative and want to kill more people than you get killed? Sounds competitive. That’s like saying “I don’t want to do what I should have to in order to win, I just want to win”.
Now, if it’s a conversation about adding social for things like warm up games or if you have a team and the ranks are so far apart from each other, I’m on board. I’m all for social playlists. Warzone doesn’t quite cut it in that regard, it’s more of a game within a game I think. I also think it would be great to have social playlists for things like action sack, griffball and infection. But, if you want to tell me you want social because you’re tired of getting smashed or want to smash people then you’re in it for the wrong reason. Should you have to “git gud”? I don’t think so, but i also think that’s an inevitability for even the most casual players to eventually get to. You’re going to grow into your rank eventually. At least, that’s the point.
I am Onyx rank. I play often enough. My brother, is the definition of casual. Plays infrequently, normally with myself, and he normally doesn’t do too well. So he got his rank finally. Even after playing with me and getting carried to a bunch of wins he probably had no business winning, against opponents that were much higher skilled than himself, he still placed in bronze. Now when he plays alone, he is able to maintain an even, sometimes higher than even K/D. He’ll probably never make it out of bronze. He only plays casually, yet he’s never once complained about the lack of social. Anecdotal evidence aside, social has its place, it just might not solve the problem you’re having.
Agree? Disagree?
