Please get rid of Rank Decay.
I read a few things, and the biggest reason why people want to keep rank decay… is because people will play their 3 match games, get ranked diamond+ and then never play it again… ok great
Make EVERYONE start at at least Plat or lower
Problem solved.
Ranked Decay is annoying and makes me hate ranked.
Are you crazy or what? This will ruin everything.
Add it to all ranks and add it to accounts who have not played in years. Players who have not played in two years are not diamond.
I think its great. You should not be the same rank every season unless you work for it each season. Playing just 3 games/season and still have your rank is just dumb.
People who have not played ranked the last 3-4 years should derank down to silver so they can start working themself up again.
Also rank decay would remove a lot of fake masters/GM from the high ladder and make them farm to that rank again if they think they still belong there.
No one should have the ability to come sleeping back to master after 4 year break.
The idea behind Rank Decay is, that Diamond+ supposed to be the higher Ranks, so ppl shouldn’t be able to just stay there without actually playing it. Imo (despite facing its negative consequences from time to time) it’s a good thing, because ppl gets rusty or unknowledgable without actually playing the high rank meta.
Forcing everyone above Plat to play at Plat (or even below) would just make terrible experiences for players from those ranks.
If you’re good, you don’t need to worry about climbing back, and if you can’t play 1 game every 3-4 days you shouldn’t play in those ranks imo.
Personally I think they ought to just remove SL and keep Unranked and show us our MMR numbers instead of what we have. SL at this point has become more like QM than unranked anyways.
Instead of having SL, Blizzard could introduce mini weekly tournaments or another option could be to let players create some through “custom maps” and allow us to search for such tournaments for those who wish to “try-hard.”
Not sure why should the more popular mode get removed 
The amount of player population decreases as the ranks get higher, so decay isnt just about people “proving” they can keep the rank, but its also about getting players to keep playing so those that want to play have players to play against.
Deep question man. I can’t answer that for you. You’ll have to ask somebody else.
I Super agree with this! However — if I started at gold… and worked my way all the way to diamond, let’s say it took 50 games… and I get to diamond… and now i’m good in a solid spot… I am FORCED to keep playing ranked… or my decay will happen and boom, back to Plat.
This is what I hate.
This is a very good argument to keep rank decay, the ranked mode would be far less active without it. It’s mostly needed at higher ranks as fewer people are at that rank and Diamond and upwards is supposed to be the most competitive. I think it’s fair to assume these people should and would be more active throughout any given season compared to a Silver player.
Platinum to Bronze contain the majority of players, so there is no real need for rank decay there, as the larger population makes it easier to find matches. I wouldn’t be against giving Platinum rank decay, but not for Gold - Bronze.
Oh Gill! Find a new shtick, that one is getting old. 
I have to agree with Karabars on this, why remove SL for Unraked, the most unpopular mode of all? I think they should just remove Unraked if anything.
This. Who cares if that player was dia in 2017. They shouldn’t be able to keep it infinitely because decay caps at dia 5, 0 points.
Flat out apply it to every single rank. If you come back after 4-5 years, tough luck, start again from bronze. No matter if the player was originally grand master or a gold 1.
I keep getting hit by decay because occassionally I don’t want to play the game for a week or more. Obtaining extra banked games is a pain. That’s fine. The game awards you +600 points on each win when you come back. The rank isn’t really lost if you can play at your old level when returning.
(Also, the dia 5 0 points cap should be broken once the player skips a full season, if it doesn’t already. Decay should then make that player fall slowly lower upon each skipped month)
I would like to advertise my idea to solve the problem and keep higher ranks clean:
Rank decay should hav been added when game was made. Then all those fake TL masters who only play 2 games/season would have crawled back to silver again
The decay should also apply to players without the placement games. It is no point in letting them keep their ranks for 3 games right before the season end.
I agree with you 100%
See what I did? Deceifult right? Please don’t do it to me. You hate it when Zena does it to you. Karabars did it to me and I hated it. Now I’m doing it to you. If your against what I said, fine, but at least do so in a way that isn’t deceitful. Quote me properly or just leave me out of it.
Thank you.
No.
The reason is that someone will stop playing for 2 years, come back at the exact same rank, then cause losses for every team they’re on.
I didn’t do anything deceitful, this is what you wrote, quoted in full.
I like you and your posts, please tell me how I quoted you out of context or did anything remotely deceitful? If your whole post is irony, then I missed that.
You didn’t attack my post. You took 2 lines (not even a full sentence) and attacked that. This is deceitful.
I’m against the idea of purely just removing SL. The removal of SL just to keep unranked would be stupid since ppl like to play competitively to an extent, but that isn’t my post and thats how it’s being used.
There are only 2 big differences between UR and R and thats the ranking system itself (which doesn’t really work) and the matchmaking (which sort of works…) and how it finds ppl. In the end they do the same things a bit differently. Instead, I think they should just smack a person’s MMR number so it’s visible to all and so we know what to expect. Everyone could play together and life would be great, less smurfing and ppl just may learn more (monkey see, monkey do) and you could do the slow grind this way if a person’s choose to do so. This would be a quick way for everyone to find a “drafted” match while still being able to boost all MMR.
For those who dislike this, if Blizzard could create a game “lobby” where ppl could just join like they did in WC3 and Broodwar. Have an MMR bar in game creation and slide it to where you want, and have more equal fights and enable ppl to “observe” for those who want to. Upon victory the game will calculate how much mmr teams deserve to be rewarded.
I mention game creation because, if blizzard wanted to add a “tourney” style game creation but for all, you could still have a solo queue (or teams) competition but where if you climb to 1st 2nd or 3rd place you could obtain bonus MMR and have it go on for a couple of hours per day.
It’s not just remove SL for the sake of removing SL.
I quoted that line, but in fact twice you said SL should be removed:
Not once in that post did you state, as you have now, that you’re against purely removing it.
I’m sorry you feel somehow you were taken out of context. The simple matter is you didn’t articulate your position that you weren’t really advocating the removal of Storm League. I’m happy to chalk this up to a misunderstanding, but I can’t intuit meaning and text, when it wasn’t provided.
Here again is the post I responded to, nowhere in that post do you even infer you’re not advocating for the removal of SL. This is no doubt why Karabars read it as I did.