>>717414291
It's a shame since /tg/ on the archives was always a fun place to be at. Sometimes I look at old threads and miss when we were not drowned out by gacha shit. People would take the time to play slow paced comfortable games. Now everything is 20 min low engagement dopamine driven feedback loops.

>>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,