Blizzard don’t want you to climb up, only the chosen few, they decide precisely how many players to have in each of the ranks.
If you are getting better, starting to climb up, they are match-making you either with clueless teammates, or against cheaters, adding and some team-stacked of smurfs friends for good measures.
And it happens each of the times, methodically. Thank God for the 6th of December when Marvel Rivals will be launched with a much better gameplay. They have solved even the snipers’ problem, who aren’t cancer anymore like they are in OW2.
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it’s actually tomorrow, dec 5th… 25 hrs from now as I write this… I suppose some places in the world it might actually be on the 6th though after midnight/early AM. It’s releasing in the afternoon in the US.
You can pre-download on steam as we speak.
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i am so done with ow and its rigged matchmaking. i get tanks or dps that are so braindead that the games are unwinnable
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Rank resets every 6 months are the dumbest thing the devs have ever done. They should’ve reset ranks at the beginning of OW2 and that’s it. They’ve also made placements count much more towards your rank assessment than before, so if you get lucky or unlucky you end up in the wrong rank because 10 placement matches aren’t nearly enough for that assessment when ranks are reset.
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I am so excited for Rivals… its for EST… 7pm today… can’t wait to play Loki.
Devs are proud of the trash toxic casino experience they created. They are completely aware of how the game works and why the crap that happens happens.
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Lol your coping is so hard
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the laughable thing is every time they do it, they announce it like it’s some kind of special feature lol
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i feel like placements are odd.
granted a played a lot of qp before hand, but i placed diamond 1 at 95% even though i lost 6/10 of my games. i never went down a division when i lost, but when i won my predicted rank would go from diamond 4 to diamond 3. honestly i don’t even play comp after my placement because i’m probably a plat player and i don’t want to bring other people’s ranks down with me as mine gets calibrated. i often play with diamonds in qp, but obviously it’s much easier cause the gamemode is way more casual.
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yeah it looks like we have a whitelisted on the bnet launcher rn
Honestly I agree a lot of times it feels heavily sabotaged. I won 5 game in a row and now ive been put in 3 unwinnable games in a row even got matched up against a 2 stack that I lost to twice so thanks for that game. Its not even that the losses were hard its just that the teams were either dumb or extremely bad like they dont even belong in the rank
it’s because they rigg.
a company that doesn’t rig shows it’s code/algs.
nothing rigged nothing to hide. fairplay MM isn’t patentable or worth hiding.
if it’s elo they can just authenticate/validate this real-time live and prove fairness.
in fact, transparency is a GREAT mantra in modern gaming to win the consumer’s trust!
meanwhile rigging (and obfuscation) is a perfect business case to monetize thru engagement and churn.
No they don’t, and it’s stupid to think they would.
actually naaa. it’s more likely a company hides it’s MM algs if they have some secret sauce nefarious garbage that isn’t raw elo or something unpatentable (aka fairplay). not getting behind the transparency hype train is anti-consumer and assuredly anti-gamer.
why would anyone defend a corporation and not advocate for better gaming rights. lmao.
you don’t actually have a fair system until you prove such.
No.
They don’t show code because all sorts of issues could occur if they did.
Keeping code private is no proof for malicious activity.
that’s not how software works.
they can actually show live MM code without any interference in other in-game systems.
if it’s a fairplay system there is nothing to hide. it’s literally not patentable or any kind of business secret.
easy to go on record and prove to gamers they aren’t borking something in the spaghetti.
defending their systems at this point is defending a black box.
you have no proof it works.
It is.
Any information about the code used is a potential target for exploits or attacks.
And were not even talking about keeping your code from the competition yet.
competition already dominating.
code implementation vulnerability isn’t a thing for simply contained modules like elo/MM. fairplay systems are well known and implemented across the board. they need to show they’ve implemted the algs correctly to prove it works.
otherwise it’s provably unproven 
How’s Hawkeye and Hela treating you lately? They can dumpster Black Widow by not giving her a one shot, but these other 2 heroes can dominate lobbies like it’s nothing!
It’s because the game tries to keep you around a 50% win rate. So, if you have a win streak, it will eventually ensure you are matched with teammates that will give you a loss streak to keep you at 50% win rate. So, yeah it is rigged and not possible to climb once you’ve stagnated at what the game thinks your rank should be.
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