[hnick]

The biggest problem with skill based matchmaking is that you eventually reach a point where you only win half of your games. There are days the struggle is appreciated, but some days that's just not fun - especially considering that it's an average and you'll have dry streaks. A lot of players hate it, they'd rather have a noob stomp, while others like the struggle.

The old days where you joined servers, got to know names, and formed communities offered a lot more than win/lose stats. Ultimately, I would say that is far more "engaging" but they neither want to run servers for us nor let us do it ourselves anymore.