Increase the requirement to 100. It makes no sense to keep getting leavers who don’t care about rank. Make it 100. I’m sick of seeing low levels in rank matches. Even arcade competitive mode is full of low levels.
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I say this every time I see this thread–not everyone needs hundreds of hours to learn something. I placed mid plat season 2 when I started and quickly got to diamond, which was equivalent to master every season after. I see plat/diamond border players in silver/gold. Those people just don’t “get” the game or have bad mechanics, but not everyone is in that boat.
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I think level 5 is enough to start comp not 25.
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Found the Bronze player
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Only okay with this if everyone needs 80 levels of other modes to reenter comp. That’s only fair. I’d hate that btw but I like people being consistent.
This would scare so many new to the game away and if hou aren’t happy to do the 80 to be even then maybe you should sympathize with others you’d be subjecting to that.
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qp isnt rly the place to learn your character cuz no one takes it serioussly, tho qp+ is a mess there still a higher quality of games in qp+ over qp. no one grinding days on end to get to lvl 100 and no one learning crap in qp. we need to stop trying to fix qp+ when its not really broken. it was meant to be a casual mode full of memes and stupidity, why do people insist on turning it into something its not.
Well. Found another guy that doesn’t realize you don’t have to play the game for 200 hours to be good. And you can play the game for 1500 hours and still be bad.
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This is true, but it’s less about that and more about discouraging smurfs
I mean they are at the same skill level as you with all your “experience” whats the difference?
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Did you ever stop and think those low levels have another account that is sitting in masters or grand masters? No you did not did you.
This statement is true but I don’t think that’s the point. The problem with low levels is they simply haven’t played nearly enough games to be appropriately ranked. A level 25 in gold could be a 3.5k smurf or it may be their first ever account created yesterday. Either way ruins the game for 11 other players through no fault of their own, other than possible throwers or derankers.
Is increasing the min. level requirement to play comp the solution? I don’t believe so because as mentioned quick play doesn’t really teach you anything. The only positive thing that might do is discourage smurfs from making more throwaway accounts but that also means less money for blizz so it won’t happen.
A better idea in my opinion is giving players the ability to choose the level range of other players they can get in their games. For example, you may only want players within 100 levels of your own, or 500, or any level. It’s been well documented that many players are willing to accept potentially much longer queue times in exchange for better, more customizable comp games. Yet, somehow we still remain with such little control over our own experiences.
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it does not take hundreds of hours to get to Account Level 100. You can easily get to 100 in just a few days, or over 10-15 sessions at an average of 4 hours a piece. The first 70 levels are cake, then the 71+ is the same 20K experience which each level can be accomplished with a minimum of 3 games.
Also get that border mentality out of your head. Just because someone has a Platinum or Diamond border in any rank, does not mean they “dont get the game” or “have bad mechanics”. That is part of what is wrong with this gaming community, you assume that they are bad, but they, like myself, dont smurf with multiple accounts and have the only account they need. We dont need a “new” account to be among the “cool kids”. Our accounts have been properly fleshed out over time with the broken system thats in place. No need to exploit it further with alt accounts.
I mean if you’re gold after 1,500 hours and I was master after 150… do I even have to say it?
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Why on earth would you want to make it easier for smurfs to ruin Competitive?!?
It absolutely needs to be higher than level 25. Level 50 at least if not 100.
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The games been out long enough they’d just buy a level X account on eBay or any other acct selling website. All the change would do is make those types of accounts slightly more valuably.
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How about you not so as to not be a jerk about it?
I would say yes to this because of smurfs.
I disagree with the argument of “bla-bla-skill-bla-bla” because its not true as SR will put them in their place.
If they place people who play badly with you, you should reconsider your performance.
Lmao. SR has never done that.
The biggest mistake people make in Overwatch is taking it seriously. It was never designed for that.
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Jerk? I’m just being realistic. I buy accounts on eBay that are already level 25 so I don’t have to grind 25 levels of 5 minute queue quick play
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congrats at admitting to violating the CoC & ToS