My sweet cheeks climb slowly to plat 4 after being deranked to gold after rank reset, randomly get a 10 loss streak from clear dps gaps, throwers and so many disconnects from teammates, not once does the game decide you know this dude is losing so many games with horrid matchups, lets do one in his favour. Back to plat 5 i guess. Play another game the next day starting at plat 5, win game, finally W mint, lose game after that, extremely close game, -45%?? into gold randomly from the one loss, win game, 1% off plat 5 because we cant have them recovering from a random bug can we. If its not the throwers, game disconnecting players or massive skill gaps, random bloody bugs will still derank you double for one close loss. At this point scrap competetive man whats the point even.
dont even try the 10 win loss streak is just a skill gap shtick, 3 games had throwers, 3 leavers, 4 were just getting stomped by a smurfing dps player (or you know, another cheater) not getting banned for abusing the system for a month.
howâs yaâlls comp balancing been making 0 sense lately
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Youâve been bamboozled.
sure have been bud, soon as i complain i get win streaks, every single time. neat huh.
well ⌠you go on a loss streak and you rank down. you complain, but your rank is lower so games are easier so you go on a win streak so your rank goes upâŚ
games get harder so a loss streak is likely to happen again 
Go take a look at your overall win rate - I bet overall its above 50% so donât worry so much about a loss streak here and there. As for you getting hit with a -45% on a close game⌠canât say for sure but you say you were on this big loss streak perhaps blizzard WAS throwing you a bone that game and you just still lost.
Because the game is not designed to be fair. It is designed to be addictive.
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Heres this guy desperately trying to explain why an obviously bollocks system is in fact working properly.
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^ hereâs this guy determined to have a bad day.
Awwwww 
fair retort though, wp sir.
This is what blizzard decides to do to me when Iâm one win away from getting back to diamond 5âŚ
âHey shes been working hard for that rank, lets give her a 13 game loss streak to ensure she never sees the high plat ranks again!â
âGood idea boss! Ill get right to it!â
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the dev of the matchmaker says the matchmaking is working greatâŚ
lmaoooom delusional and clueless devs
see it for yourself
https://x.com/SrslyPaladin/status/1843439713342108151/photo/1
At this point im starting to believe ow2 is just some sort of :
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Lets not forget that the community itself has taken on a evolving toxicity of its own based off the devs and other teams input
At this point, even if ow2 was reset to ow1 6v6 format, i think close to nothing would change in a positive way.
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if they add back some type of PBSR, besides wins and loss i gâtee you that toxicity will cut down by atleast 50%
many are toxic because. they vent their fustrations towards their teammates. as the current matchmaker only cares about win/loss. and maybe there is a thrower/troll on their team and is making the match hard to win
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Itâs broken, thereâs a rank #1 streamer who is stuck in diamond right now. The game is stupid and the people who design the matchmaking are strugglers.
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Thats not how it works, games dont get insanely harder going up 75% of 1 tier or even going up a tier in the same rank. Same for losing, they shouldnt become insanely easier going down 1 tier in the same rank.
That only happens in the upper T500 parts of the ladder.
Whats happening now has nothing to do with ones skill. Which the devs have said is the case. There is zero, absolutely zero skill based performance. Its all about mmr and if you are above or below a 50/50
Games also shouldnt âget harderâ if your say a GM in gold or plat. Because ive been up this ladder, down and back multiple times. Every rank feels the same now.
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interesting⌠so youâre saying silver will have the same skill level of players as gold and as plat? what is the difference between them then? I understand a person wonât be able to âfeelâ a difference if any between 1 tier of 100 SR at a time but the difference has to be there for this wheel to work at all⌠no?
And to be clear Iâm not defending the match maker like people assume any time anyone event suggests that any part of it does actually work how its supposed to lol. I absolutely agree that too many games feel ridiculous where you canât tell between people cheating / smurfing / or under performing to such a level you canât tell how many badge levels lower they should be in sure but I also canât prove that in those cases it really isnât just exactly what it is - a person cheating/smurfing or a person just having a bad game. I would think in the lower ranks too those differences are way more noticable and pronounced too. A low ranked person could climb a rank or 2 out of bronze being pretty good at a single hero but then get shut down as if they never left bronze in the first place if they get countered and donât know any other heros and from everyone elses perspective it will only look like âwtf is a bronze player doing in this gold lobbyâ no?
edit skip here I guess tldr; incase Iâm not clear not arguing anything tho, just trying to understand better what everyone else is feeling even if Iâm not feeling it - I used to be diamond 1 but broke my arm a couple months ago so Iâm still playing but my armâs in a sling so my rank has obviously dropped a lot cuz I literally just cannot move my arm like I used to, Iâm plat now but struggle to hold plat 5, I drop to gold 1 some times. To me, even when my games feel lopsided I still ended up in a rank that makes sense to me considering my broken arm.
I understand, im not arguing either only stating whats been happening for myself and friends that have been playing.
Whats happening now is because your skill doesnt determine your rank plus them using mmr to determine your matches, you are now playing other D1 players but instead in gold and plat.
This is why all ranks feel the same, its not based on your visual rank. Its based on your hidden mmr then they try to create a 50/50 match up no matter ur rank.
Lots of pros are experiencing this, but il use myself for example as im an average joe thats decent at games. My hanzo/genji skill is around a diamond and masters level. This season I played on this account in gold, solo and to help a friend climb. It took over 20hrs to climb it to plat.
Not one match was even, the matches are the hardest in any game ive ever played yet im a diamond at minimum playing in gold.
I can hop on an alt or other role thats higher elo and win with ease. It makes no sense.
I realized this when i tested it on my main hero. I main Doom, hundreds of hours, like 3 Doom accounts, mained since his dps release. Ow1 peaked as the number 63 or 64 doom I forget but it was high.
So I tried climbing a gold account. It took triple the time to hit just plat 3. Where a new account did it right off placements.
Tldr. Sorry for the wall of text, but someone with over 10k fps hrs, too many in kovaaks and in the game itself should not be struggling in gold on one account. Yet rolling in high elo on another
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I feel your pain. The only way to beat the matchmaker is qâing with 4 other friends. Enjoy your 20 min wait times. Might never find a game.
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please dont apologize for this well thought out post.
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Mine was good this season. Went from G3 to G1. Hopefully, Iâll make it to plat next season.
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