>>717231410
tl;dr basically, yeah. Engagement based matchmaking (and not 'skill based matchmaking.' the terminology is important.) is essentially an artificial means of keeping your win:loss rate in such a state that you:
>a) Don't want to STOP playing outright.
>b) are motivated to spend money on microtransactions.
Video game companies literally hired the same industrial psychologists who optimized casinos for maximum money sucking to make EBMM, btw,