Hiding MMR is causing an echo chamber of misinformation

What if we just tell people their individual game experience is most likely personal and leave it at that?

I also like to compare DbD to fighting games, but to illustrate what a skill based game is, and what it is not. To me, fighting games provide about the purest form of skill v. skill a video game can offer. In the PvP arena, DbD is about the furthest from that; a PvP game where skill means very little. At least it is down the list of factors that lead to a win or loss.

Not to mention that matchmaking in fighting games is light years more accurate than the practically nonexistent version we have in DbD.

So I don't really agree that the added context that knowing your and others' MMR rankings provides anything of substantive value, beyond what you can glean from the matches themselves. And again, I don't think knowing everyone's MMR score would add anything, since:

1. The criteria that go into MMR are wonky as hell, and won't necessarily tell you who is "better" anyway
2. You can tell easily enough from the gameplay and loadout of your opponent whether they are winning on their skill or other factors (provided you are capable of being objective)
3. Even if you're not objective you can just rationalize by saying your opponent's MMR was probably gamed somehow
4. You can tell easily enough what you need to work on from the matches themselves. If you are struggling to hit a curveball, whether the pitcher is a major leaguer or a minor leaguer is secondary to the fact you couldn't hit the pitch. Likewise, if you're going down in 10 seconds, you need to work on your looping, regardless of the MMR of the killer. KNow might help you morale-wise, but in terms of informing your improvement, I just don't see it. Not in this game of variables.

But for me the decider on whether I want MMR to be visible is this: it will lead to increased toxicity and belligerent discourse, and it will change nothing in terms of matchmaking. People will just be able to see how ineffectual SBMM is and get really salty about it. BHVR making SBMM better just because people can see it's bad is a pipe dream. It isn't gonna happen at this point.

I don't think any potential benefit would outweigh that.

I mean you can look up Game Design Knowledge on Google, Wikipedia to see all the pros/cons, like do you honestly need BHVR specifically to explain why to you?

I'm not curious, because I know they don't want to be questioned on every little decision they ever made, because the problem with that would be people would rage over unsatisfying answers, as has happened in the past, many times. Too many.

If I wonder about a decision, I think critically about it and look up Game Design explanations on those issues.

Alrighty, sounds good. Be well!