Morgan Maddren (Blizzard Server Engineer)
For top GM players there had been some unintended inflation prior to S4 that S4 fixed.
For everyone else, your ranks should now reflect your true MMR (unless if you logged in during the first hour of the patch and we accidentally decayed S4 ranks too, that issue will resolve on that rank when you get your first rank update)
Def had a better match after the fix. Hopefully other players are experiencing improvements now?
So if I just had waited an hour to log in I would have avoided being angry and playing tilted the entire night? nice…
Nice Blizzard… another bug to the list, I lost the S3 rewards and now I have to win 5 to see if the bug is fixed.
It’s on the list
Yeah that’s usually how patch day goes in these games
Playing right at the patch is usually when the game is at it’s jankiest
But how do they f up the one thing I came back for?! I came back last season because I knew the would not just cut my rank again. Grinding half a season to get back to where you were was the dumbest decision they every made for this game, thank god they said they would change it.
But then they just kinda forget? wat…
I know mistakes happen, but with the way this game has been treated the last 4 years. I have lost any way to sympathize.
And ranked mystery heroes is gone without a world. I enjoyed that, was nice with a less toxic ranked experience for once.
They didn’t forget to change it, they just put you back to whatever you were before they implemented the system.
I can say personally that I was Diamond/Diamond/Grandmaster at the end of OW1, ended last season at Platinum/Gold/Diamond, and am now Diamond/Diamond/Grandmaster again
So they basically wanted to hard sync everybody’s SR to match their MMR.
But something went wrong. And now they fixed it.
But even then, hard syncing SR to match MMR is going to shuffle around some people’s SR up or down a bit.
Well, I’m glad they fixed it. Still ruined my night. At lest I never made it above dia1 last season. Losing the master title would maby piss me off even more.
Shoutout to people accusing everyone of being at the rank they deserve and trash talking them
But do you get your end of season rewards after your first ranked update?
This is pretty accurate.
I’m not saying that’s how it should be at all but it’s kind of your fault for not knowing better. I’ll remind you that yes, it is also their fault for not doing better but I guess it’s just how it is, patches usually come with bugs and “bugs” so.
I’m not sure that it does say that. It looks like it’s just saying that they should receive their expected ranks, but I don’t think it’s saying anything about the ranked rewards like the titles
Yeah, you might be right about that
Yup. But people will still complain if in their case the rank will go down…which I think we are already seeing on the forums.
Ok just to wrap things up: I was in masters 4 at end of season 3 with a “final (deranked)” rank of diamond 5. I just finished my first 5 wins, got placed into masters, but still did not get masters title because I was “deranked” to diamond at the beginning of the season. Disappointing
So don’t play the game after a patch until hours later? This still clarifies nothing about why my previous seasons rank was changed. That makes zero sense still. Will that not be address at all? Will it just say I finished a full rank under again despite playing in that rank all season? Will I not get any of the rewards?
-No rank decay s4
Am I just never going to see any of the diamond rewards?
Yeah it is our fault for expecting a company with $7.8 billion in revenue to not totally bork a patch and thoroughly follow a DEV-QA-PROD pipeline that is standard in every other single software industry