Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 dropped just yesterday . As players soldier ahead, the game’s creators are already on the defensive front. While kvetching is inevitable, the latest Call of Duty has shipped with seemingly limiting matchmaking features , instead revolving entirely on algorithmically decided skill-based matches. In response to criticism, one of the game’s directors has decided to be frank: the matchmaking system you’re waiting for probably doesn’t exist.

“I don’t know if there’s perfecting it,” Joe Cecot, multiplayer creative director, tells IGN . “We can look at the data and how it affects things, and we can quantify how it affects a certain group of players or a large percentage of them in a negative way.…