Season End is a disaster, can Blizzard Product/Devs comment?

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Throwing this up in response to the MULTIPLE threads on the bug report forum such as Wrong Rank Reward (250+ replies) and False Season End Rank

The response from the Twitter is absolutely terrible and shows no commitment in attempting to make this right from here

“We understand that we need to do a better job making these systems more understandable and will be addressing these issues and other part of the system in the future”.

That’s a total non-commitment to righting players who had a very reasonable expectation of having their rank be what was displayed on their UI at the end of the season. It makes no sense to me why players aren’t rewarded based on their season peak or what’s displayed in the UI.

This issue is a problem both looking back AND looking forward.

Looking back: in my situation. I placed both Masters 5 and Tank and Support. Based on all the UI and notes, I had a very reasonable explanation to be rewarded for being Masters 5. I even deliberately stopped myself from re-ranking after a few games on each in an effort to ensure I got the Masters rewards. And yet, after two months of grinding, I’m cheated out of nearly 500 competitive points + Masters Title and other rewards off a poorly explained and unintuitive semantic.

Looking forward: If you couple this with the drastic deranking (I went from Diamond 1 to Plat 4), I now will have to climb back up to Masters, this time not with my MMR being at level of my rank – but having to push myself at Masters from every game from Plat 4 to Masters.

Here’s the bigger issue looking forward, though. If the system is going to end season rank you based on what your current score is, taking in account games you, the player, cannot see reflected on your rank – you, as a player, now are incentivized to literally STOP touching an entire role THE game you re-rank into a new division. Since you can’t know anything about whether your rank is actually still in that division, you effectively cannot play a single game beyond, because if you lose even a single game, you can no longer know, regardless of your displayed Master 5, whether you were actually 3500 and the next game just put you at 3480.

The start of season 2 has drastically discouraged my incentive to play at all when both looking back and looking forward with how this has all played out. I seriously hope Blizzard reconsiders how this is calculated and does a retroactive grant to players in the previous season.

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Yeah I was in the bronze5 → bronze5 → bronze5 → bronze5 fiasco.
Then they fixed it for like the third time. I won 3-4 games and shot right to gold4.

Parked myself at gold4. Game is a disaster.

Season2? I got bronze level rewards. They didn’t even pay out my gold.
My stats I don’t think updated. And after like 7-3 placements I dropped back to bronze5.

It’s still broken, fake, rigged, and scam-tier layoff-worthy.

Fire them, enough is enough!

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The amount of chances I have given this game, this has drawn the line, I’m out

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this post is excellentally worded, and exactly what we needed to sum up all the complaints. “a poorly explained and unintuitive semantic” couldnt of said it better myself <3 lets see what blizzard will do about it

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Blizzard sure knows how to fumble over and over again. I do not enjoy OW2 as much as I did OW1. The rank system sucks balls.

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I guess you will have to either keep playing and risk ranking up or down, or just stop playing once you reach a certain rank.

I’m not really sure how this is news to you

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Unfortunately Blizzard only addresses questions under 280 characters.

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It’s news that you’re not rewarded on season peak. It’s even more news that your displayed rank, up until the literal last second of the season doesn’t actually reflect your final rank.
I can’t tell if you’re trolling or that tone deaf.

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That makes sense to me. I’m not sure why it doesn’t to you.

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The corporation doesn’t really lose any money if player X gets GM instead of player Y. People join or leave the game all the time. They know if you get mad enough to quit, they can probably get you back with one hot skin or the next hero. There’s just not much profit incentive to balance matches perfectly, as if that’s even possible in a way that pleases everyone.

I feel your struggle will continue indefinitely.

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If the data team can show a material decrease in MAU as a direct result of the data, it will definitely be of more interest to them.

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Man. It literally only gets worse. The sheer incompetence, the unending greed, the lack of communication and transparency, the god awful monetization.

I think it’s time we all collectively stop playing until they actually give us the sequel they promised because whatever all of this is, is not it.

If any of y’all care, just stop playing. I am genuinely serious. Just stop. They won’t listen if you keep giving them MAU statistics or money.

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280+ replies, Jesus christ… why do you guys still keep playing this clown fiesta?

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One of my accounts hasnt received any rewards at all despite finishing in masters. Nothing at all. Not even a lower rank title. Didn’t even get the usual thanks for playing message.

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Blizzard only has forums so that you don’t post on Twitter where they will occasionally reply. They knew this stuff would happen and chose to let it happen and apologize after they don’t care.

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Unfortunately, Blizzard only responds with answers under 280 characters.

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Thanks for your comment, says it all for me also

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So you got to a rank but then started losing games and thought you could just not finish your 7/20 games and hold the last achieved rank? That’s not how it works.

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Gotcha. Going to disregard your posts as you’re clearly disingenuously trolling.

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Why should you be rewarded for being at a rank that you are not at? If I drop from diamond to plat, you think I should still get diamond rewards? Do you know what that incentivizes? deranking.