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SBMM is fine and has been around for more than a decade now (probably longer).

The problem being discussed widely today is that developers have a dark incentive for players to lose when purchaseable lootboxes are present. SBMM is just one (and fairly benign) tool developers use to lower players winrate.

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For every loser there’s a winner. I fail to see how developers could ‘lower’ players’ winrates without also improving others’ winrates.

>The problem being discussed widely today is that developers have a dark incentive for players to lose when purchasable lootboxes are present.

While this could've held true a few years ago for CoD franchise, I know for a fact that neither last year's CoD installment nor the most recent one discussed in this article (Black Ops: Cold War) has any sort of lootbox mechanics.

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