Matchmaking is Continuing to Improve. Game Duration Continues to Increase.
You can see a giant spike in game length in the week of 7/5 when they introduced the changes to Matchmaking to incorporate games played as a criterion. I brought this up about a month ago, shortly after the changes were made, and now we have additional data to reinforce the assumption that matchmaking is going longer due to closer games. In general, matches are going for 44 seconds longer than they used to before the change.
Credit to hotslogs for providing the source data and u/N8CCRG for reminding me to represent the data visually last time. Game length for Battlefield of Eternity was included but variance wasn't measured because it was such a new map and only in the game for about 2 weeks before the changes were introduced.
Posted Aug 12, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC