Activision keeps frighteningly granular data on your Call of Duty gameplay – here’s how to see it [Video]

In context: Call of Duty fans have been up in arms over the franchise’s skill-based matchmaking system for years now. The multiplayer matchmaking tries to group players of similar skills together for more balanced matches, but many skilled players have raged that it forces them into brutally tough “sweatfests” matches.

The complaint here is that Activision has kept everyone’s actual skill rating hidden behind a curtain. Players have been left guessing where they rank compared to others based only on anecdotal experience. But now, a YouTube exposé has let the cat out of the bag on how to access your real skill score.

Prominent CoD creator TheXclusiveAce showed a sneaky method to request your detailed matchmaking data from Activision, including your all-important skill rating for every single match going back years.

You can requestthis data through Activision’s privacy …