YT LINK ABOVE TO WATCH/LISTEN! ^ So Mesa Sean weighed in on the SBMM fiasco, asked for opinions from top players. According to some stats I am one so here is what I put on his YT comments: [i]"At first I thought "well this is a very one sided opinion". But you actually cover our side (top 1%) a little so good stuff. I'm a top 1%, but barely, I sit on that borderline of tier 2/very good but not pro. Since SBMM was introduced, I've had to abandon the crucible. It's constant constant top players. It's no fun, it's resorting to everyone using any tactic to win (glitches etc). It's unbelievably laggy, I could show you Gigabites of clips from every week of what you would call ridiculous lag. Seriously. The tough matches aren't what drove me away. I was still doing just as well as always, the lag was a small part of it. Especially as it gradually got worse. What drives me away still is the inability to play with friends and followers. A literal quote in my steam chat: "I'd love to play with you NWT, you know I would, but when I do I run into all the sweaties and I hate it" How is that fair?! Why can I not have fun? Why can I not have friends anymore? Since when has it been a punishment to be good at a game? One thing I completely disagree with what you said is "they just want to beat up on us!" I have NEVER seen anyone say that. So where has this come from? The stat whores maybe but they are a TRUE minority. Rather than those who give PVP and it's thousands of fans lifeblood. Good players like a challenge, I mean we CREATED SWEATS, an entire system of tournaments etc. We did that without any of the tools to, against all odds and with 0 support from Bungie. If we just wanted to beat up on people all day... Why do that? Why go to the trouble? I could go on. And on. Trying to look from the average player: yeah the crucible right now is lovely. Easy, even. Again why is it a punishment to be good? Why should my thousands of hours of "PVP training" go against me? What game does that? The average player knows they will get games where they smash and games where they will be smashed. Does this current system help the average PVP player to get better? No. As you're only playing people at your level. Does it encourage you to get better? No. As if you do get better you'll be playing sweats all day, after a 12 hour shift at work, like me and my skilled non-pro friends. All it does is give the average player a respite whilst everyone else suffers. For me the solution is very simple. A ranked playlist. Take SBMM completely out of crucible. Create a ranked system and put it there. The 1% want that!!! Let crucible be a place where I can have a beer with friends after work. Go back to vanilla, when lag was bad, not laughable to the point of: "really?!!!... Like really?!!!" Again I could chat on this all day. What do you think to the opinion of a top 1% (who isn't really a top1%) Good video. You asked for opinions. There's my vent NWT"[/i] TLDR; Good players are after fun, not "stomping people all day". Take away SBMM, put in ranked playlist.