Competitive shooters stir up a lot of strong opinions from their players — from tier-list debates to whether camping out near a spawn point is cheating or just annoying — but one of the biggest debates raging around games like Call of Duty is whether skill-based matchmaking is a good tool for balance or a game-destroying plague. Activision recently weighed in on the question with a study of its own game showing that, despite how unpopular skill-based matchmaking (or SBMM) is in the community, players may actually appreciate it more than they think.
