I would argue that PvP games are most fun exactly at the point, when you are still kinda bad. Every bit of progress is an achievement and every new thing you le

I would argue that PvP games are most fun exactly at the point, when you are still kinda bad. Every bit of progress is an achievement and every new thing you learn has a huge impact. The games become less and less fun as you advance the Elo/rank ladder - playing becomes less about having fun and more about keeping your status. From my experience "the elite" has the least fun. And I think this is true both in cases, where there is a matchmaking system that matches skill level, and where there is none. There is only a small portion of players that would find fun in endlessly dominating "bottom of the rung" players. Maybe that is also one of the reasons, why hacking is limited to a small portion of players.