Competitive Decay

Competitive Discussion
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Thoughts on competitive decay?

I was watching some youtube channel talking about 3 things season 12 should get rid of or something along those lines. One was comp decay for diamond+. He talked about how decay was originally meant for top500 where there are limited numbers for that rank.

A few seasons ago you would see people like AimbotCalvin having literally like 5 smurfs in top500. But now that they have added a mobile verification to top500 there really isn’t a need for the constant decay.

Not everyone can play constantly throughout the week, people have full time jobs, school/uni and other things to do. Theres also the fact that yes you do decay but are still queing off your mmr, but if you happen to lose a few games your once GM account is now in plat. Which isn’t too bad as you will climb back up but in the mean time you are pretty much smurfing and will just stomp the people who are in these ranks. This seems like its not a fun time for either party and is just a general waste of time.

Having accounts sitting in diamond-Grandmaster not losing or gaining rank doesn’t influence anything and will make it less stressful for people who don’t have the time to constantly grind the decay away.

Comment your opinions on this but yeh even from personal experience I have a crap tonne of stuff to do irl and always would have to grind the decay timer up before actually going to do anything I wanted to do each week and it was just a pain.

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I’ll tell you one thing, without decay you never will move people out of top 500, an example any arcade competitive do not have decay, and what happened? They place high, play 50 games and done, so only way is to climb higher… so thank you, but decay is necessary.

3

Well sure, for top500 then maybe keep decay, but people who are not in top500 decay is pointless.

4

I’ll give you a point that decay should to be there as well. Look, decay pressure people to play, so they won’t lose rank, but let’s count there’s no decay, what you think some of people will do? In my opinion they just will stop playing to secure rank.

5

Well whats wrong with that? If some kid is so obsessed with keeping his diamond rank or whatever that he literally stops playing the game each season to keep his rank then thats not effecting anyone but him.
He doesnt make people lose games by being boosted or whatever because hes not playing.

Also as I stated in the original post, not everyone has time to play all the time. I dont think its fair to cut out people who clearly deserve to play but do not have the time to sweat it out everyday. We shouldn’t make the higher ranks exclusively for people who don’t have a full time job or a life in general.
I know im exaggerating but I feel like a lot of people have better crap to do than grind decay.