i agree with this and this was one of my greatest complaints before the change. i have a friend that used to lag out of games and would be completely unable to join. resulting in us losing ~20 sr for those games. since the change its never even close to that.
you dont entirely know that this never happened. it could’ve been extremely “toxic” (i hate using this word but meh) however individual skill might have triumphed over you in there wins or lead to losses on there end. thing is we don’t always know what happens on the other teams comms.
just an aside WHO AINT PROUD OF THE MAN THO lol moving on…
Now this i can understand your reasoning. TimTheTatman isnt a masters/gm/T500 player, everyone knows that. however he avg. 15k views/stream. however he has maintained his rank/climbed since he exploded.
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this to me is a huge issue. however i dont see anything that makes the game seem artificial with OW. maybe its my blind following of the game, but i dont feel as if this is true considering others and me have defied this hypothesis but it could be an anomaly. (assuming you’re right)
in regards to purchasing accounts, explain console? i can have 40 alts if i wanted playing OW on each without them generating a dime. i do get your frustration in having those accounts within higher tiers. For exampled IDDQD had 4 accounts within top 100 and kept track of where they were. i do have an issue with it at that level but in ranks diamond and below, i dont feel its as much of an issue.
i think there’s a reasonable explanation for this. The game might have a proprietary MM system (developed in house) that they may not want blasted to every Dev team or they may not want people to be able to exploit the system to gain more SR or lose less SR based on specific factors or outside influences (i.e. hacking)
The only thing i could think of is that it takes into account how well you did given the circumstances and measures you against people in the same situation that did better statistically. i know you say they don’t matter but in reality they do until you hit diamond, this is the PBSR that changes amount earned and lost per match. is it possible you lost more because maybe you tried a little less harder when someone left. or maybe you titled when you saw attack torb hammering his turret in spawn and that snowballed into issues with your gameplay? ofc but i cant agree with always blaming the system. I’ve had people leave but never given in up, this resulted in me losing 0sr vs a friend losing 4-8 sr because they didn’t try as hard.