"designed to keep you playing as long as possible" lol welp they're doing an awful job imo cuz I play two games and then go play something else

@Sweatyhunk

3 жыл бұрын

same lmao i love the game but i get my fill after like 2-3 games usually

@mentallyuntouchable6292

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah you are like me i usualy play 2 games then switch to zombies to cool off , i think there are people who play this game 8 to 10 hrs a day and pay for mtx which tells activision everything is fine.

@hamee4478

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly that's not the overall trend for casual players. For example, if a dude named Dave came back from his 9-5 job and hopped on for two matches, he would probably keep coming back since he doesn't really feel the SB MM or even care enough to know what it is.

@Flinkerkobold

3 жыл бұрын

@@hamee4478 ye and even id he played for 1/2 hours, he will just go 4/6 w/l on a bad day and 6/4 on a good day, whereas with random matches he would just get destroyed for 3 games and lose and quit

@Tek3333

3 жыл бұрын

For real lmao

It does exist. Don’t play for a week and look how bad your enemies are for the first couple games.

@breezeleon6889

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

@user-xs9oo9gc7u

3 жыл бұрын

Actually I feel every first game of my day is easy. But clearly not playing for a week will erase things.

@Marky-Mark1337

3 жыл бұрын

So both zombies and multiplayer, or both?

@vistastructions

3 жыл бұрын

Then I'm just gonna play noobs for like 3 hours, quit for a few days, and come back. Noobs galore I guess

@Swimmys

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xs9oo9gc7u I have a theory that every time you get on; or maybe every day, it puts you into the lobbies that are equal to your average play, and it raises or lowers the skill based on your performance

A few years ago, I realized this was the way of the world. I've since quit CoD, played Apex for a bit and got off it once it felt too "manufactured", quit most social media, and don't random click on videos on YT anymore. I search or go to subs and specifically find things. It feels better. I don't miss CoD (and played thousands of hours per year from CoD 4 to BO4). I don't miss knowing that my first game is a 3 k/d, then a 1.5, then 0.8-1.2 for the remainder of the night. We're getting to the point where we have to ask if game COMPANIES are actually doing harm to young people. I know we've put the "games do harm" thing to bed...but we need to wake it back up to really look at "do the people that publish/fund games do harm?"

@deriznohappehquite

Жыл бұрын

It’s psychological warfare against children.

@technologicalpickaxe2634

Жыл бұрын

yes,games arent harm. eomm is made to be a drug for young people .

@Nick-ht5yi

Жыл бұрын

Very wise

@TehZNCify

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I thought this was just me. Very well put my friend.

@underballbutter

Жыл бұрын

Also click 'don't recommend channel' on YT (especially for MSM news)

ENGAGEMENT FOR THE ALGORITHM

@hamstsorkxxor

3 жыл бұрын

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL-THRONE!

@j0shuaj

3 жыл бұрын

This gives me tiktok vibes

@Doodleduderocks

3 жыл бұрын

I now pronounce you Player and Code.

@Bpard

3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys I just uploaded a pelington video and would actually be so happy if you guys would consider subscribing to me!! Happy new year!!!

@Larcona_

3 жыл бұрын

Seconded

I’d never thought I’d see Professor John Price

Yea, getting lobbies full of CDL skins and faze pamaj’s makes me wanna play more

@xXxXLoneWolf103XxXx

3 жыл бұрын

It’s probably a hybrid system with both skill and engagement based matching with skill being more important

@stealthiscool

3 жыл бұрын

loooool the CDL skins make me wanna kms every time I see one

@its__OMG

3 жыл бұрын

same

@sunnyd2590

3 жыл бұрын

@Humble & Deadly I definitely agree but depending on the game mode, 20 kills is on the lower end of average

@davemcdaniel3940

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Wonderful. Monetized matchmaking. It's more important they prioritize matching us with our clones and try to retain us instead of prioritizing ping, in a non-ranked playlist. Let that sink in.

@SawBlade289

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh, what does it want now?

@AcidAdventurer

3 жыл бұрын

Right. I'd be more likely to actually play despite the sweat if I didnt have awful ping 2/3s of my games.

Honestly I don’t mind sweating when I’m partied up. I however can’t play more than an hour or so solo

@antonioguerrero2367

3 жыл бұрын

yeah agreed it’s fun to tryhard with friends

@brziperiod

3 жыл бұрын

@@antonioguerrero2367 yeah. But I’m apparently decent enough with my barely above 1.0 to get five stacks

This video is honestly depressing my take away is basically at this point anything you do is subject to the wills of an algorithm to maximize the profit to someone

@medivh1035

3 жыл бұрын

lsn't that how this world is? This world just wants to suck you dry then dispose you once you have no more value to them. Look at how this country treated the veterans. Those who has power just want cannon fodders.

@lassiemaven

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, this is the entire world today.

@thomasdavis5230

3 жыл бұрын

the irony is that if a company tries too hard to max profits, they can end up killing themselves due to distrust and unpopularity.

I thought this was “how to get dates so you can get married...”

@JohnnyReb1976

3 жыл бұрын

Step one: stay off COD

Some one at Activision is watching this and eat popcorn and laughing at us cause we are clueless on what going on

@WavySlabz420

3 жыл бұрын

either that or they are scrambling at the HQ trying to cover it up cause we just figured it out lol

@boblawblaw6185

2 жыл бұрын

**Update** I think at this point now that the SEC is getting involved with all the ActivisionBlizzard scandals Activision might have put the popcorn down and started shaking in their boots. It would be nice if the SEC decided to go through the code for COD's SBMM and EOMM and find the evidence for all the bullshit they put us through and the real time nerfing in some of those patents that we all suspect is live in the game. Its really the government's job to stop these corporations like Activision from abusing customers. When the pharma companies abuse customers or kills them the FDA steps in right away. The US needs an agency like that for these tech companies.

@krismorin743

2 жыл бұрын

@@boblawblaw6185 lol big difference between killing people with drugs and making them win/lose a video game. The government's got a lot more to worry about than Call of Duty

@boblawblaw6185

2 жыл бұрын

​@@krismorin743 wrong . addiction is addiction. The same part of the brain lights up when playing a video game as when someone takes a hit of heroine. They have scientifically proven this decades ago. So to intentionally make these games addictive as possible and then market them to kids that are at the oldest 17 or even young adults who'd brains aren't fully matured until late 20s is the same as when big tobacco tried to market cigarettes to kids as well . Recently Juul the vape company got in trouble for doing the same thing. Activision is literally treading the same line, but the right people in congress haven't put enough thought into it yet. Also a lot of this issue is hidden behind algorithms which is a topic the majority of people can't wrap their head around in the first place. We are just now starting to see people attempt to tackle them with all the facebook stuff. What is happening to face book is going to open the door for people to look at activision.

@krismorin743

2 жыл бұрын

@@boblawblaw6185 while I agree that "addiction is addiction" and yes, the same part of the brain lights up whether it's heroin or cod.. I'm not wrong. The difference is heroin (or the pharma drugs you mentioned) will literally kill people. I've been playing CoD for over 20 years. It has not affected my physical health. That being said, I agree that it's unethical and infuriating, and I'm watching this video because I've noticed something was off when I play. Now that I know I'm not the only one I'm uninstalling and will not be giving another cent to Activision. BUT there's a difference between unethical and illegal, which is why I don't think the government will get involved in trying to regulate how addictive video games can be.

"One day someone is going to download that big file of you." *Everyone seriously questioning what will come up in their browser history.*

I had to delete Cold War after learning more about EOMM. I do really like the game but I always felt like something was pulling some strings behind the scenes were almost every match feels very similar to the last one. I noticed I have never been on a 6+ win streak and I’m always playing against high level players and my team usually has some bad players. Like the game was rigging me on my wins and losses, what’s worse is that I can’t just chill out and enjoy the game or try out like a Pistol 007 setup during a match but if I do that I would get Molly whopped by a guy with a Tec9 who has a CDL skin. So I really don’t like playing a game that has an algorithm where it’s toying with my emotions and dopamine levels to get me to keep playing and spend some money on the game. I hate where we are going as a society

I’d buy more stuff if I actually enjoyed playing the game, which is don’t because it’s so sweaty

@MIKUIEL

3 жыл бұрын

everyones sweaty this game made me incredibbly sweaty to the point where I hate myself for the tactics I have to do in game to get a high kd. i can run a gun anymore I have to play tactically and shoot people from choke points from around spawns its not fun but it gets the job done.

@drunkhusband6257

3 жыл бұрын

@@MIKUIEL You can rush just fine in cold war sorry....

@MIKUIEL

3 жыл бұрын

@@drunkhusband6257 depends on who you’re playing if your up against people who are camping you get picked as soon as you cut the corner. Leverage your skill level and then make that desicion plus with the 150 health if you run into multiple people which usually in sweat fest they hardly ever run solo you’ll be battalions uphill all match unless your using a meta weapon which I don’t do cus it’s not fun. So yes you can rush but it’s complicated which is why top tier you tubers are reverse boosting because they would dare run out in a sweat fest lobby just to get immediately dropped out of the spawn

@Bpard

3 жыл бұрын

Hey guys I just uploaded a pelington video and would actually be so happy if you guys would consider subscribing to me!! Happy new year!!!

@qlity1243

3 жыл бұрын

@Flawless zN so.. you can't enjoy the game, if you have to play against players that are equal to your skill level? pathetic.

This whole video is an expansion on my comment on your SBMM video and I love it. Nail on the head right there. Disconnecting when it gets too much is exactly the thing to do. I quit Facebook a long time ago now, Instagram is almost at that point now. I think MW was the last CoD I’ll ever buy. The algorithms will hopefully soon work out that people realise we’re being squeezed and they’ll get better at making us feel that way, but also at the same time they’ll still do it, just they’ll get better at it.

Call it whatever you want. If connection isn’t priority #1 then it won’t ever be the right approach. If you really want to protect the bottom tier skill of players then adjust the algorithm so that those with a k/d below let’s say 0.85 will have the SBMM and those above that can have the connection based matchmaking. Could even put the top 5% in the SBMM lobbies too if they really wanted.

@surajmadhav1953

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and honestly connection MATTER EVEN MORE if your SBMM is cranked up. Given how fast the TTK is, gunfights in competitive lobbies put an even greater emphasis on connection, since you have no room for error since the person you are fighting most likely won’t be missing shots and has similar level instincts. At that point the connection will determine who will win the gunfight given 2 guys are pretty equal in skill.

@yaboyCombo

2 жыл бұрын

@@surajmadhav1953 exactly. There’s a reason they do pro games in private lobby’s/on LAN.

Love your vids man, keep the great work up, it will surely pay off

@BeefGold

3 жыл бұрын

Dude has a milly and a half subs. It's paying off. That's a good thing.

This video goes hand in hand with the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma

Hey Drift0r, long time watcher. I'm a mathematician; with a degree in optimisation science, and a masters in statistics. I can almost guarantee everything you mention is going on. From personal experience, in private companies they love this type of thing. My job is quite different to video games but this type of retention thing is something I've worked on (with a team of mathemeticians). Also many thanks for doing your due diligence and using the right terms hahah. Kind of weird I've been watching since before my degree LOL

I came to this channel quite a few years ago for the gun guides, now I stay mostly for the theory vids. Love this stuff Drift0r, but regardless of what you create, I hope you have a happy New Year!

I think EOMM is in place in most any and all games now a days. I believe SBMM was the start to it and what we have now is an amalgamation of all Activisions skill tracking ai’s in any and all of their games. It’s now to a standard that works so well for them we can feel it but can’t see it or touch it. Look at every cod since cod 4 every single one has a different multiplayer feel or hardness and it has changed over the years. Cod AW was pure filtration to see what we will buy. Ghosts was to probably see how tactical we wanted to be or if we would be. Black ops has been the main test floor because they are so loved and can do no wrong. They are the Apple of cod they take what’s there and refine it and release it. They have all the money and time to do this. You can’t make me think that the game cod is just a facade to gather a metric truck load of all our data to creat a monopoly. The game is just to get you to come back and keep feeding the ai or whatever the new thing they add that year.

@Cryptonomous

3 жыл бұрын

I think you're on to something, no doubt they have profiles on their players now, probably making all kinds of guesses to what you would do based off of how you play, or comparing those who do share player traits.

What’s Up Drift - I think it definitely needs some Serious tuning!

Is it ironic that I found this video because the algorithm recommended it to me? And I've now subbed so I guess it worked in your favour.

It feels like it drastically increases your ping when you play well. Making your bullets disappear and you get hitmarkers without doing any damage.

@tobisaur8715

3 жыл бұрын

watch drift0r's video about how sbmm affects ping

@theendurance

3 жыл бұрын

get better internet

@lovemym16

3 жыл бұрын

@Brian Brown you don't get hitmarkers on missed shots.

@lovemym16

3 жыл бұрын

@@theendurance you don't get much better than a gig up and a gid down.

Hey I’ve been loving the content recently! Really informative and thought provoking. Happy New Year!

@Drift0r

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man :)

Big props for doing stuff like this! Always appreciate your content!

Makes me so uncomfortable the more I'm reminded that we're all products being manipulated

been watching your videos since black ops 2 and just wanted to say thanks for all the years of great youtube happy new year

@drift0r - great job digging into this topic. i keep hearing about it but couldn't understand what the driving forces could be. thanks for the insight!

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the final goal for Activision

Gaming the last thing I thought would ever turn systematic. A place where people escaped for fun and mesmerizing memory’s are over. Everything in life seems like we end up paying for it somehow and now video games it’s truly sad. Shame on this company for using data against its consumers I hope they meet the lord and light.

Take my like and comment. I love your advice to step back when things are going bad, I wish more people could do that. Good stuff.

I think the most insidious thing about EOMM/SBMM is that it calls into doubt every time you do well and do badly. Did my 4kd game get gifted to me because of the algorithm or did I actually elevate my play. When you get crushed is there something I should work on or did the game decide it was time to knock me down a peg. This is why we need visible player rankings or a visible lobby skill rating.

Good looking out for the community brother. Not too often I see content creators warning the community of the algorithims that constantly bombard us with manipulation tactics. Love the videos for the mostpart. You look at the facts and shut out opinion for the most part and I respect that man. Much love🖤✌🤙

I love your videos driftor you have excellent composure

Is there a bug with the HARP on hardcore where it only works when combined with a UAV or am I just stupid?

@colorzFX

3 жыл бұрын

nope. harp needs uav because it doesnt enable radar. trash devs :)

@ryanguercio7061

3 жыл бұрын

nikographics that’s insanity and so stupid. Make it cost 100 points more if it’s that important to you in hardcore since you get the map that’s already there in core.

@Toxic_Nuke21

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda dumb that you need two streaks for one to work

@ryanguercio7061

3 жыл бұрын

William Edwards it’s insane especially for what the harp costs.

@BeatrixKiddo83ps3

3 жыл бұрын

@@colorzFX what? Seriously? That’s annoying. I stopped using it cause I just thought it was just broken.

Really excellent video! Great job :)

Pretty piece of thought! Keep up with these occasional reflections, it's refreshing!

Great vid, really enjoyed this one

always nice to see you posting

Probably one of the best posts you've ever done. Good work.

Your videos are amazing! Thank you. Peace and love brother

Thanks for this video; you have a talent if you're able to keep me watching for 21 minutes w/o getting distracted or bored.

All I know is that why do I go on a 25 gunstreak and all of a sudden you run into one guy and you do everything you have been doing so far but some random lag kills you. One of this scenarios when you feel like that game wanted you to die. We all have felt that

All matchmaking just makes every game feel engineered, the outcome is being steered before the match even starts.

@Sir.Craze-

3 жыл бұрын

That's why sports split themselves into different league's, division's, weight classes, skill levels, ages, Ect.? Ok, sorry for the shitty sarcastic tone. But that seemed like a pretty easy example among many. I mean heck. Chess is what these systems were originally based on.

@vgkstone9692

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sir.Craze- this a game tho man I’m tryna unwind after a long day not compete lol

@dr.emmettbrown7114

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sir.Craze- too bad no one will tell us our ranking or league we're in.

@asmith8190

3 жыл бұрын

@F1REBLADE 1 So damn true, i dont remember my last game that was genuinely close and/or fun to play. You either get noobs that you stomp, but this is the minority of games, or you get spawn camped one minute into the game. And every time you lose a "normal" match its because you are the only person on your team that does objectives. What you said is 100% accurate, you have 0 influence about the match that you play in at all. Its all predetermined

@Sir.Craze-

3 жыл бұрын

@@asmith8190 you just described CoD: WaW or CoD: MW1\2. The game's, environment and gameplay I generally see being used to describe how it was before SBMM, EOMM, Ranked, ect. I 100% respect you guys wanting to play more casually AND\OR wanting more controll over you matches. That sounds perfectly fair and resonable to me. Not to mention just makes sense as a fellow human (I swear). But I think there's some confusion about the effect SBMM, ect. have on the game, rose coloured glasses for how things used to be and could be without, and\or mixed messages about what the effect actually is. That last point. The kind of matches you explained you are having seem somewhat random and what you may expect with little interferences from the matchmaker. Matches with no compitition, matches that you get smacked. The opposite, fair matches, would be less likely in a game like MW2. Assuming that's what the matchmaker in a newer game was designed to do I just think if we are all on the same page we can have a more constructive conversation.

love your pragmatic approach Sir. Class act!

As someone who was a child in the 80s the amount of influence these companies have is scary.

@sepultura7771

3 жыл бұрын

I know,i remember playing Mario in my bedroom back then,never imagined the world would be like this

*Guys, i figured it out. It's not meant to keep us veterans engaged. It's supposed to keep us veterans away so the new players stay engaged for longer. How else would you justify a system that punishes good players?* *If you're good you get really challenging matches. If you get really challenging matches you get tired and stop playing. This then gives rooms for new players to slowly improve and spend more time with the game.*

@FnMcln

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly this. Its because they know that the vets will buy the game every year anyway and so they want to appeal to new players to get them to buy it too.

@Thes4LT

3 жыл бұрын

That isn't entirely true. I've played games where my team consisted of me, prestige rank, and a bunch of sub-level-30s who got absolutely dumped on by the other team, which was full of prestige rank players booty sliding everywhere. It's a complete parody that the matchmaking system thinks this is a balanced lobby--except, this is how it was designed to function. This was the other team's "good game" and our SBMM hell lobby, and it doesn't even seem to matter how good a player is, everyone gets an SBMM hell lobby at some point. It's not just me who gets these sort of unbalanced lobbies. KZreadrs have gotten them, you can see them on Reddit, lots of people say they've gotten lobbies just like that. It's not even a fluke, it's engineered to do this.

@qlity1243

3 жыл бұрын

How you are being punished? By making you play against players, equal to your own skill level?

@sugoruyo

3 жыл бұрын

They're not looking to keep the vets away, just looking to maximise the percentage of the player base who will buy MTX; which is going to be newer players for sure. I'm kinda ancient in some ways, started out with CS 1.3 and have played most of the titles in each series since the first CoD, MoH and BF games. Never bought MTX, never will. Cold War, I quickly started getting extremely frustrating lobbies.

@sugoruyo

3 жыл бұрын

@@qlity1243 not quite. This is examples from my personal experience so, YMMV: I did fairly well in Cold War since it came out, hit something like top 3% in KD and I was using "off-meta" guns trying to level them up. Would regularly get 3-6 KD games. Then I noticed most of my games were frustrating. I'd get a game with >1k score/min and then it would plummet to 80 score/min because of the next lobby. The most common things I noticed were: - I would get placed in lobbies were the opposing team were all using the same clan tag and obviously communicating effectively. I was solo and it seemed like my whole team was solo. Alternatively, I would get an opposing team with a 2-party, a 3-party and a solo, with, at best, a 2-party on my side. That basically guarantees you will lose and have a frustrating game at that because, you will never get callouts from teammates but, will always be called out to enemy players by their mates. - I would get placed in lobbies with people clearly way above my level: they would down weird, extremely narrow and long sight lines, have much faster reflexes (I played mostly HC DOM so largely 1HK from most weapons) and only used the "meta" weapons. - Some of the lobbies were filled with console players (I'm PC) and I'd have trouble with hit registration and they'd seem to have much more forgiving hit registration (dunno if this is an effect of aim assist or a straight-up hand out to console players, PS5 players seemed to do better than Xbox players). Like, they'd quickscope me from about 50m away with the sniper only half-way up (no sight picture was visible through the scope yet) whereas, on best play cams it would look like they are shooting quite a bit to the side. I would get a shot off on someone's shoulder and not even get hitmarkers. This was happening very consistently in Cold War, barely ever in MW2019. I suspect it's because they prioritise the lobby match over the connection. I play over a symmetric gigabit connection and, in most games, I have pings around 2-15ms. In CW I almost never got below 80 and, usually, was around 120-150ms. The point is: the players you get placed with are not actually fair competition equal to one's skill level. My suspicion is that they've mostly lumped a large cohort of players at the top 5-10% together resulting in top 3% players matching against top 1% players which is a massive difference actually. It seems like they paid close attention to optimising for new/young players (who are likely to spend the most money) and didn't really bother with the rest of us. We want to play matches were they end like 180-200 or even 199-200. Where we win, on average, half of them and we get a decent experience. When you get placed in a team that is allowing the same guy to spawn camp and kill everyone 5-6 times (literally team mates spawning and sprinting ahead to their preferred sniper position after dying 3-4 times to the same spawn camper), lose 7-9 games out of 10, more than of which are lost to scores like 200-60, something's up. If I ook at my in game score/min graph over the last 10 matches it's something like 700, 30, 40, 100, 50, 90, 40, 200, 10, 800 and the cycle repeats. That massive dip in score, reflects a massive spike in difficulty. It should be more of slow fluctuation like 700, 600, 550, 580, 720, 750, 800, 720, 650, 580 etc. where your scores don't go up or down by a factor of 10 or even 20 between two matches. That suggests a very badly tuned algorithm, at least for the cohort of players I'm in.

Love you drift 10/10 content. Also I certainly don’t think it’s far off to think that cod servers work in the same way as Facebook or similar. Lots of behind the scenes info these days

theory? after im dominating in 3 games my enemies are surviving everything including 4 shots in the chest with ARs, getting aim resist, and enemies will spawn right behind me

Driftor I'm addicted to DM Ultra grinding... I needed this.

Bruh! You have been pumping out content like no tomorrow since December 30th!!!! GG!!!

Great advice there at the end thanks for that. Ignoring comments, and spending less time on social media and more time talking to others in real life can really help your perceptions of the world. So much negativity being thrown at people today from the minute they wake up and pick up their phone its nice to start the day with coffee and a walk in the park instead of checking whatever apps you want

If the matchmaking is supposed to make you play longer..............well we all know how that's going

I feel the thing that you said at 3:18 is definitely true for Modern Warfare because I was looking at the executive armory pack and I was deciding if I should get it since the Fennec is my favorite weapon. The next maybe 10 games had people using the Golden Coffer blueprint so when my teammates died I could pick it up and try it out. The algorithm (if there is one) won for sure because I did end up buying it.

the way around it in Cold War is dual wield shotguns with flame rounds get 3-4 kills with your main gun then just spam the shotty

Very good video Driftor. Thank you for the quality content.

I have a friend who purchased mad dlc and he told me that unless he plays with the squad it's easy lobbies left and right. I refuse to buy the battle pass and it's pure sweat every game to the point where my gun barely works anymore. It takes me at least double the amount of shots on average from a week or two ago. Yesterday it was people who were leveled up to like 270+

I actually like these kinds of videos! Thanks

I turned off notifications on all social media platforms and lowered my screentime by at least 30%. During this whole covid-19 thing my average screen time went up to like 8-10 hours, and that's only on my phone. Some of your videos helped me realize how bad these apps are and I want to thank you for that.

Happy New Year, you good looking old man

Really excellent video Drift0r!

Great video!

Great video. Really makes you think

These types of videos are great to listen to while “Gaming”.

Great video! Thanks for the insight :)

Love the disclaimer at the beggining! People should say this more often

Good work Brad.

Good video! I have nothing else to say but leaving a comment for those engagement numbers and the algorithm😉

been watching your videos for a hot second but didn’t sub because so many COD youtubers have such a huge ego. but i subbed bc you’re a g! you deserve 10 million

@Drift0r

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

this is why i am glad i use both a Adblock and turned off tracking and keep no cookies with strict firefox settings. I ignore any ads or recommended videos and just watch what i am subbed to.

Two things: 1. 18:35 THAT TOMAHAWK THROW WAS NASTY. 2. A few months ago I re-installed BO4 after not playing it for several months. Had some loot boxes left over (from contracts, I never do micro); first two each gave a loot-box-only weapon that I didn't already have lol. Purely coincidental of course. EXCELLENT video Drift0r!

I really appreciate these videos. I'm having less and less fun with this game. SBMM makes it very hard to try new guns and grind for camos. If this keeps up this very might well be my last call of duty.

Damn bro shot was looking 🔥 in this video

Nice one. Thx my man 👍

i know that the algorithm is watching, but I also know that I enjoy watching your videos! I hope that both contribute to my recommended videos next time I'm on youtube and i also hope youtube payz you enough to pay the bills this month.

i think shorts is a great idea i see a lot of growth potential

Interesting... btw Happy New Year!

I sorta believe this, given early on I would quit matches that were obnoxious very frequently as I was learning the games flow, and now my matches never feel like I'm getting steamrolled or hit by the sbmm really hard, but that's just my experience

with those things that make you want to play another game like winning or hit markers as you said, i think it does have a large impact, but also it is a bit hard to do either with the sbmm system in the games. I get a 5 kill streak and then i'm playing in the CDL or something. I have like a .4 w/l ratio and a .94 k/d, but i hardly ever just get a 1.0 on anything. its more of a like, first game i get a .5 ratio, second game i get like a 2.0, and then the next game i get a .3 or something. I think this theory makes a lot of sence though. Thanks for the great content!

I enjoy hearing Drift0r speak from his FEELINGS. Even without evidence, it’s just nice to hear. Edit: I made a comment on drift0r’s past video saying I wanted something like this. Very happy that he tried to inform the community, without facts.

Being in q position of advantage taking the first shots having the first armor break and still Activision decided no you don't win this fight Stutter stutter frame drop inputs not valid death

drift0r: youtube knows what you want! KZread: here's an ad in spanish. I don't speak Spanish.

@kevinteddyk.1112

3 жыл бұрын

somebody forgot to turn on incognito when searching "latina playing with big funny stick"

I'm trapped watching this and can't stop

Dude I appreciate that you look out for gamers mental health. I've had a lot of the suspicions that you have as well that you shared in this video. It's nice to know I'm not the only crazy one. 🤫

Yo looking good driftor!

Agreed great vid bro

18:37 nice throw

It's quite funny how you mention gambling and addictiveness. I work in a Casino, and I can tell you that our slots run off of pure math and odds. We don't need to change ANYTHING, we know that we will win simply because the payout is less than the odds (which is truly how the house "always wins"). However from gamblers we hear almost the exact same thing about SBMM/EOMM. Tell me if you see or hear any similarities: "I was winning money until you guys saw I was winning too much and then made me lose" "I was in a bonus and you guys changed the odds to make me lose" "On Wednesdays, you increase the odds in order to get us in mid-week to boost low Mondays and Tuesdays" "You guys have fixed this completely and chooses who wins and who loses" "The Player cards track you, and if you win too much they will make you lose more"

@sepultura7771

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting,i usually quickly find flaws in analogy’s,but this is a good one

@Thes4LT

3 жыл бұрын

You might have a point if there wasn't literally a patent that lays out a system to manipulate win and loss cycles, player skill in lobbies, etc. to minimize player attrition. Every claim anyone makes in denial of SBMM has to go up against not only player tests proving the system is in game definitively, but the patent that says exactly what's possible with the system.

now this is quality content

This is my favorite vid you’ve ever made

You must have watched “the social dilemma” and/or “the great hack” but if not you should. After watching those and learning about the matching system in COD I had thoughts along the same lines as what you’re presenting in this video. I believe they are doing it 100,000%

This video is why I think cross play & cross progression will both become much more common place going forward and possibly even become standards eventually for multiple platform game releases. It will give these game companies way more data to observe players on.

I've been talking about this since MW, though I usually refer to it as 'retention based' matchmaking.

You’re too smart for me haha most of the stuff you say is over my head so I have to pause and rewind to listen to it again so I watch your videos twice as long....

I'm a marketing professional so this video had me nerding out right from the start, love it lmao

@robkatzberg38

3 жыл бұрын

Ugh so you’re the future problem

I dont know about any of this machmaking stuff, but one thing i do now is that if i get into a sweaty match i just leave the application then go back in and then i get like three matches of bot lobbies, then i get sweats so i just do that over again

For people like me who dont buy anything except the game itself, we become punching bags for the whales. Guns do no damage, we have less health, our aim assist is actually working against us to protect them, it's unbelievable how insidious this is. Im not playing cod anymore

Shareholders like talk around MAUs - monthly active users. That is the same as revenue growth or improved earnings per share or higher dividend yields for normal companies.

3:46 every time Drift0r talks about the stuff he cannot talk about I know he leaves out the important parts. Jep, goes on to talk about all kinds of things, KZread, Facebook, their algorithms, how Epic, LoL, WoW and other games have implemented it, how Google has the biggest pay check and can work on AI and how it is rather unlikely that Activision is doing it, but it could feel like it's there. A true master in talking much w/o saying anything.