Out of the last 20 games, over half have been Consolation, Uphill Battle, and Expected. Consolation is the only accurate assessment since they’re complete stomps, but almost every “Expected” game has been a very, very difficult win for a cut-down reward.
The reality is the devs simply aren’t motivated to fix this since the game still makes money regardless of how bad it is. The worst part is that smurfs and cheaters have overrun the game, rendering any sort of reliable matchmaking close to impossible. This is the beginning of the end for this game unless they address these two issues.
The system isn’t new though. All they did was give us a visual indicator of what was already going on in the background.
People asked for more transparency and we got it. The simple fact remains that they are looking at player in-put. Things may just be adapted slower since there was a merger a lot of employees were fired.
This new rank system is complete trash. Nothing has changed. AT this point previous one was better, now i see hilarious modifier explanation when it was a clearly stomp and i was a favored to win, yet we lost.
Another fake and bugged with no transparency ranked system.
I’m not sure how much more transparent they can be about it. You know who’s in the lobby, it gives you their rank ranges. You see how much you gain or lose plus what modifiers were applied to that.
I mean it’s totally your choice whether you choose to be patient or not. Like you said it’s not your problem, but that doesn’t make it anyone else’s either. You do you boo.
You’re right. Nothing has changed at all. Because the “new” ranked system as you put it, isn’t new. It’s just the old ranked system with better explanation as to what is going on. There is zero difference from the previous one, except now there are visual indicators instead of cards.
I don’t disagree, my guess is they’re motivated but actually think the matchmaker is good (dunning kruger) or they literally just don’t know how to fix it. They have no critical thinkers on the dev team, and if they do then I’m sure those people just stay silent so they can keep getting a paycheck. Imagine being the one at the table who says “hey everyone, it seems weird to me that on one account I can try as hard as I possibly can but can’t move past masters, yet I have another account where I can routinely win matches and hover at 50% in gm.” Imagine the silent blank looks on their faces while they scramble to respond in a coherent way as to how this makes any sense in a fair matchmaker.
If by ranks being in flux you mean I routinely have players who have peaked Platinum 1 or low Diamond in my team and former Masters 1 to low GM players in the enemy team (at least on one of my accounts), then yeah you could say they’re in flux in the sense that people who should quickly rank up or quickly rank down are being held in place by a magical force. Oh wait, that’s not what “in flux” should look like but I guess the devs though it was a good idea to make an already terrible experience worse. Three consolations in a row and then I was given an uphill battle that I won through blood, sweat, and tears.