I haven’t responded to anyone mentioning the competitive adjustments in the patch notes because nothing in the patch notes is counter to anything I’ve said.
I don’t think the people @ing me with the lazy “gotcha” messages like you have even read the patch notes - or even my OP for that matter. Not a single person has quoted the PNs against me yet. It’s just been pointless noise.
Here’s all the patch notes concerning competitive ranking so you can read for yourself:
Precisely nothing here disagrees with anything I’ve said. My statements are still true. People have just seen that Overwatch is introducing minor and extremely vague changes to the overall ranking system which, somehow, gives them another escape or excuse to pretend that they are stuck in the rank they are because “ladder must have been inherently broken before this, therefore I’m justified in thinking that It’s not my fault that I’m hardstuck” - which is some loopy mental copium gymnastics and isn’t the case at all.
Side note: Bronze 5 has been confirmed to be bugged. This still does not give you justification to complain that “the system is rigged and you deserve a better rank”.
Firstly, Bronze accounts for a very small percentage of the Overwatch competitive playerbase, and an even smaller percentage of these players are Bronze 5. The vast majority of players have not been affected by this. There is no “gold 3” bug, and this wasn’t affecting all the ranks in Overwatch 1 like I saw someone claiming (How could it? You could literally see your rating move).
Secondly, my post clearly wasn’t at all intended for new players who may have been affected by this as I specifically stated that I am speaking to “hardstuck” players, which doesn’t apply to anyone playing their first season.
This bit had nothing to do with what my OP was about, but I figured I’d cover it because someone who hasn’t read the patch notes and/or my post is eventually going to message me about this again.