I just want to say that my friends and I have vastly different play times, vastly different rankings, but we always have fun when we actually all try to get on and play…
I’m not sure how the MMR ranking algorithms award rank points… But the inconsistencies make absolutely no sense. Two of my friends are silver, 2 are bronze, and I was gold 2.
We went on a 5 game winning spree. I managed to get 400 rank points per win and ended up advancing to Platinum within those few games.
I can no longer play with them because 2 of them are bronze. Which basically means, that I’m no longer playing the game until they rank up.
The people that are bronze 5, are getting 20-30 rank points a win. Since I have not played, my friends have been on a 10 game win streak. My one friend is STILL bronze 5 getting 20-30 rank points a win.
At this rate, I will literally never play this game again… Not because its not fun, not because of anything else, but because you inadvertently are causing people to stop playing the game.
Now, I don’t understanding how the rank points work, but that needs to be fixed. There’s absolutely NO reason why someone can’t even go from bronze 5 to bronze 4 after winning 10 games in a row. How is anyone ever going go rank up, that is ludicrous. Also I’m not exaggerating, this literally happens while I rank up on their team 400 points a win from gold 2 to plat 5 in 5 games.
Secondly, why aren’t you just making it so the person who is higher ranked, just doesn’t get rank points at all if they are in a party with a higher than 2 rank grade disparity. The thought process behind this is ridiculous… Are you afraid that people are going to be boosting other people? Because really in order for that to happen in its entirety, the other teammates have to really not suck.
Anyways, all in all I just want to say how frustrating this experience is.
I’m literally not playing the game because I can’t play the game with my friends. And we’re not going to play Quick Match, because that’s not the reason why we’re playing, we like the competitive nature of the game.
So I hope something gets done about this… I wish you guys were transparent about how ranking happens and how calculations to Rank Points are calculated as well.
I’ll be here playing other games, and not touching Heroes until something changes.
–EDIT–
Just want to respond quickly and ask…
Are we doing something wrong?
Is there something I don’t know about on why someone in a party with people all lower rank would be receiving 20x the rank points than the lower person?