Call of Duty devs know you're mad about skill-based matchmaking, and for once will actually explain what they're doing about it

gamesradar.com:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 reignited the long-smoldering battle over the validity and fairness of skill-based matchmaking, and with frustrations now threatening to boil over, the Call of Duty team says they'll actually tell players what's going on under the hood of ELO and SBMM and MMR and everything else. Just, you know, not today.

"We know there is a lot of interest in the matchmaking experience, especially around how skill contributes to how lobbies and matches are put together," the Call of Duty team said in a statement shared with Charlie Intel. "Nothing is more important to us than the experience players have with the game, and matchmaking is a big part of that.

"We've been working on our matchmaking system for well over 10 years, and we continue to spend a ton of time and energy on improving the matchmaking process. This involves people working at our Call of Duty studios, our backend services team at Demonware, and other groups like our Player Insights team.

"It's a large effort that we've worked on for many years, and our approach combines latency, search time, and skill, along with many other factors, to try to find the best match experience for you. Talking about this topic in detail can be hard, and we haven't spent the time to pull together all of our work to share with you our insights and improvements over the many years. We're looking forward to doing that in the coming weeks after Season 1 launches, and we'll also make it a part of our ongoing discussions with the community."

The statement is mostly just empty assurances with little to no actionable substance, but it still came as a notable surprise since Call of Duty devs traditionally don't utter a word about matchmaking. I don't know if they were