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acesxhigh posted...

matchmaking:
you play with people who are close to your skill level so you never get better.

In a sense this should work because you should improve to beat the people who are the same skill level as you. As long as you're improving. The real reason it doesn't work is because there's people out there who seem to have never picked up a video game before.

acesxhigh posted...

Elo rating:
primary cause of toxicity probably. if you lose your rating goes down. if you play a lot of games and you feel like you're improving, but your rating doesn't improve... you feel like shit. the game is telling you that you suck. every loss makes you more and more angry so you start raging. 3 loss streak can't possibly be your fault so you start blaming.

This happens because these games are competitive in nature but most of the people that play them don't know how to handle things like losing. I know tons of people don't consider e-sports to be real sports, but competing is the same regardless of what form it's in. The people who rage cause they lose a few games probably never learned how to take a loss. Mostly because that's something you learn when playing a sport back in school, but I'm sure lots of people who play competitive games never did that.
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