Hey, I just want to share my experience playing as a master ranked player in a small server (Oceanic). This relates to both quick play and competitive. I used to be a DPS player but swapped onto tank many seasons ago to learn more about the game. Now in role queue it’s the only role that doesn’t take 10-15 minute queue. When you enter a competitive game, either because of the low amount of players in the region or something else, my team will more oftenthan not be a bunch of plats, unranked and diamond while the other team is all ranked ‘diamond’. Probably this is because the region is so dead for masters players that everyone is smurfing or playing on NA (200ms).
At the pointier end of the season especially, but generally also, those ‘diamond’ players are just masters/GMs queuing with their diamond/plat accounts.
So what’s the point of a ranking system at all when you can just buy an account in plat, swap onto it when you want an easier game and vs the same players you would on your main?
I hate that the game matches me into teams that are way under my rank to make up for the fact no one is queuing. This is partly because the other teams ‘under ranked’ players are usually my rank or higher. Also it’s because people in plat just can’t relate to masters/gm tanks. They simply don’t have the game sense to keep up - otherwise they’d be master!
I’d rather wait longer and have a fair game because seriously, a single higher ranked player on a team of plats will not be able to carry against a bunch of diamonds working together against the plats.
The quick play system must think I can hard carry every game on my own or something, because I will often get silver/gold players on my team vs diamond and above on the other team. I’m not that good at the game, I’m a freaking master tank player. It feels like because of balancing I’m going to get stuck with poor players while everyone else who just buys unranked or low ranked accounts gets to have more fun because they’re not being hamstrung by this ridiculous SR number.
It’s really UNFUN when you feel like you’re getting punished because you’re a high rank, and it’s really UNFAIR that some people work around it because they have more money and can afford multiple accounts. Like what’s the point of this game, is it just a competition to see how many low ranked accounts you can stack up, how many ridiculous battletags in weird fonts you can register?
I don’t play in the region myself, but I keep hearing this is the case from literally every streamer, and that it’s always been this way. There really aren’t any good solutions to this or we would have seen it years ago.
That shouldn’t be allowed. Playing on any ping higher than 40 ms doesn’t just negatively affect your ability to play but the ability of other players to kill you. It goes both ways, if the information from your PC to the server is taking 150 ms then the other way around is also true.
That means that players who hop onto other regions are basically ruining matches for everyone else on that match. I’m sure OW has some pretty decent compensations for players with high latency but these are compensations none the less – meaning it’s less about player’s reaction time and more about what the game assumes you’re doing.
And this not even taking into account that this exacerbates issues with regions where the player base is small. Hence why OP can’t get matched with other GM because they are all playing on NA.
As an Australian plat, I’m sick of said smurfs/alt accounts trashing my games. I used to play exclusively qp and did placements for gold weps but qp has turned into such a trash pile of alt accounts and masters accounts I decided to go back to comp in the hopes of finding some games with people at my level (I don’t have the time to “git gud”, I just want balanced matches with other crap players like em). Instead it’s the same crap with so many games being a case of whoever has the most alts/alt stacks on their team.
I don’t mind losing, I lose all the time… I’d just like to potentially have an impact on the outcome of the game I’m in. Instead imma just go play xcom again and save scum my through those bs civilian rescue missions >_>
As for getting punished for being high rank… That’s kinda just the nature of playing comp in high rank as there’s so few people the higher you go What do you think of that comp change aimed at high ranked players?
There are many solutions, sms requiration, id register, not hardcore sale‘ing gamekeys like they are candy, etc. its just that these arent profitable and bobby‘s purse has to grow even more hence he wants all the and all your money.
There’s no solution to not having enough players. If smurfs have to wait an hour to play on their main, they won’t bother playing at all. Bad MM and smurfs are symptoms of a greater problem.
ah, got you wrong. In the present its sadly as you now wrote, an impossible task. I didnt take that into account and just felt like you dont see options that couldve been taken before rock bottom, but these wouldnt do anything now that we hit it
What do you think of that comp change aimed at high ranked players?