After reaching Master 5 on the SEA server, I couldn’t find any matches. Queue times are always 1 hour long.
So today, I decided to play on my smurf account because I couldn’t put up with the long queue times anymore. After winning just one game, the system already predicted me to be Master 5 again. Come on… give me a break!
Just remove the Master rank already… When I play ranked games, all I see most player in my lobby are peak Grandmasters anyway. I don’t even care about facing all those GM. I JUST WANT TO PALY THE GAME
“Bronze Silver Gold Plat Diamond Grandmaster” That’s all we need.
And remove those hidden MMR as well. What is the point of rank icon on your profile when The game always matches up with players who has the same MMR as yours, but not by the rank itself.
Blizzard… you’re too serious about competitive. Look at Marvel Rivals as example.
I’m not sure how removing masters as a rank would change anything. Like you said, it’s based on mmr. Removing masters changes nothing about your mmr or queue times. Just like adding champion rank changed nothing.
Sounds like your region must be pretty small to not even find games in qp at high mmr. Either way, removing masters does absolutely nothing to help you find games.
I mean it’s all based on mmr for matchmaking, so adding another rank didn’t change that at all. So what aspect of the new rank makes it worse? People trying harder to be one of the few to reach it?
It’s all based on mmr. People being gm before but now masters doesn’t change people being in the same games as before. Sure gm is probably the hardest to reach since ow1 launched. And prior to s9 it was the easiest. But still the same mmr. That gets dropped down a bit every 3 seasons, something people asked for for a long time.
If your issue is with the small rank reset every 3 seasons, then fair enough. But that’s separate from adding a new rank.
So your issue is with the mmr resets then. Not adding another rank. Matches are made based on mmr, not the rank it shows people. Someone who used to be gm and is now masters is likely playing against the same skill players as before. They could make the game only bronze 5 to bronze 1. If they don’t touch the mmr people would still be against the same players as before.
Mmr and displayed rank are 2 separate things. Just like back in the day when there was decay, a gm player now playing comp for a few weeks would show as diamond. But still be in those same gm matches.
Adding another rank was the reason they did that. It’s caused a massive dip in match quality across the board for a rank only 30-50 people even have per region
But that’s not the case. What actually happened in S9 was low GMs being paired with high T500s and Masters. Only the best of the best climbed quickly, through carrying those games. High GMs couldn’t consistently carry, so they got stuck with low GMs, ranking up and down based on how many Masters were on their team until all of the Masters filtered down to Diamond or got better. Low GMs couldn’t fall, but couldn’t climb either. High GMs won and lost based on how many low GMs were on each team. It was just a mess.
It’s not nearly as bad now, but it ruined S9-S11 and is still causing problems.
So like I said at first; your issue is with the mmr resets every 3 months. Where people have to climb back to their mmr. Which did happen at the same time they added a new rank, but a new displayed rank is still just visual, and matchmaking is all based on mmr.
People have asked for rank/mmr resets for many years at this point. They finally gave one, given it’s limited and not a full reset. As that would be a total disaster.
Just because they added a new rank doesn’t mean they need to consistently be doing twice a year resets. Those choices are 2 different things. But I got it, you don’t like the mmr resets. Fair enough.
It’s really big problem (maybe it’s only my region problem) . I was live streaming today. I queued as support for 30 minute, but I ended up playing deathmatch for the whole stream…after that I gave up and ended stream. In short, I can’t even find any match on both main and secondary account. If they can’t fix it, In that case, I just have to play the role that i don’t want to.
proof : twitch (dot) tv / videos/2347695724
And then you’ll ask for them to remove GM and Champion because you still won’t get any games.
Asia just has the smallest server after the game was removed from China.
