Abject Frustration

Hi all, Appears I'm going first here if we discount the moderator.

So - frustration !

I've been playing WOT since June 2011 and have just a tad under 21,000 battles. And my account has been a premium one for most of that time.

It's been a fun ride for much of that time, with a game that looks great and whose mechanics operate well and are relatively easy to understand.

But over the last five or six months the amount of "road rage" created by this game has become almost unbearable. And the cause of that rage is MM (for any non-players reading this "MM" stands for "match maker" and it is the mechanism that "matches" up the 15 players per side needed for each match).

So why the rage at MM? For the simple fact that WG ("War Gamers" - the owners of WOT) refuses to correct MM to provide a more fairly balanced match more of the time. Match after match yields totally lopsided results such as 15 vs 0, 15 vs 3, or 15 vs 4. That means the winning side only lost either zero, 3, or 4 tanks while totally wiping out the opposition.

MM repeatedly creates matches with 2 or 3 heavies on one side but NO heavies on the other - possibly some mediums and TD's, or even an arty thrown in. And this is an especial problem at the higher tier levels where the mediums just don't have the fire power to overcome the heavy's armor.

It's acknowledged that MM does not select teams based on any skill measurement and is primarily optimized for speed in creating the match AND in maintaining each player as close to a 50% win rate as possible so as to recruit and encourag new players (by giving them more matches slanted toward a win) while making 50+% players more likely to be on the receiving end of a 15/4 loss.

This is a game! Games are supposed to be fun, which doesn't mean a win every or most of the time. But it shouldn't be a steam-roller loss most of the time either. Finding yourself 2 minutes into the game and 4, 5, or 6 tanks down is NOT fun. And quite frankly I don't understand the mental state of those who feel such an unbalanced slaughter - is or should be - "fun".

Any other players feels the same. Or is the opinion "MM is fine and working as intended".