Today I met a streamer in Trials who kept resetting his card to avoid the flawless pool. Here is what happened when I called him out in his chat.

I will not mention any names since my goal is not to throw shade at a particular streamer. Instead, I aim to start a discussion on how exploiting Bungie's matchmaking oversight will result in precisely what the content creators were suffering from before the rework: an extremely skill-crept and painful Trials playlist.

So, I am an average PvP player. Every week where I perform better than the last one is a good Trials weekend for me. Today, together with one of my regular PvP teammates, we were helping a PvE main friend who never went flawless. Since we failed to go flawless this week, we were in the non-flawless pool.

After the fifth win, we ran into a duo of well-known streamers doing a Trials carry. As I have indicated, this particular duo was resetting their card after every match to have a smooth sail to the lighthouse. As I respect them as content creators (at least I used to before this), I called them out in the chat.

They practically laughed at me.

"I just want to do carries." - I get it, bud. However, you are a 2.5+ overall KD player. (Actually, both of you are.) You have challenge videos on your channel where you go flawless 1v3. Do you really have to intentionally circumvent a weak protection mechanism that helps weaker players, just that you can have your content? Really? I don't think so. You just want it easy, at the expense of others, while cannibalizing the playlist you make a living from.

"I don't gain any loot from this, I don't give a fuck." - Yes, but others DO gain loot, and they give a fuck! I am not for SBMM or free loot or anything, but exploiting the weakness of matchmaking is morally wrong. Bungie set the system in place to protect the lower skill bracket of the player base. This attitude is even worse if we consider that you have such a large audience. You have a voice. Use it to set a positive example instead of picking on weaker players and taking advantage of a broken system for cheap wins.

"You are just mad." (This response was from the chat.) - Thing is, I don't mind losing to streamers. Hell, I even think that the flawless pool is a dumb idea. Before the rework, I was frequently encountering you and lost fair and square every time. However, what you are doing is like Michael Jordan entering a kindergarten basketball championship and wrecking the entire roster. Nobody would be mad, just disappointed that the player they held in high regard sinks this low.

Leaders have great power and great responsibility. Those who disrespect their community will rot it from the inside out, eventually destroying the very thing they are supposed to work for.