2 weeks and many people with hundreds of games and Top 500 for every role still doesnt even get out of masters until top 100.
Just by default here top 500 shouldnt even be starting until GM. Still cant wrap my head around why they even touched rank distribution when they released Champion, it made and still makes no sense.
Yea I don’t follow much in terms of these things but I saw Frogger had played like 94 games to go from masters 2 to masters 1, and he’s a rank 1 player if he wants to be lmao
I just find it crazy how Im like top 250-300 by being in Masters 2. Ive been a GM player for some 4 years but they just demolish the ranks in S9 and ever since everyone has been so squished down that getting into GM has been unreasonably difficult except for the people that shouldve just been put into Champion from the beginning, yknow the whole reason that rank even existed? So the insanely good GM1s with nowhere to go could keep climbing?
Ah screw it, we’ll raise the ceiling while also shoving everyone down, and squishing most of GM into Masters and most of Masters into Dia. Healthy gaming!
Yea I was a 4060 peak support at end of OW1, was GM1 for much of OW2, bounced around between GM3-GM1. I never should have been GM1 almost certainly, but I’ve surely improved since OW1. I kinda stopped grinding ranked since S9 reset and haven’t seen gm since, think I’ve been masters 2.
If I’m going to have 10+ minute queues, those queues better be in GM games. Just feels wrong for masters.
While I do hope they can fix the distribution, since gm seems to be the hardest it’s ever been, while pre s9 it was the easiest it’s ever been. It doesn’t really change anything gameplay wise. But I guess it does feel bad being lower than before.
They basically ruined everything with the ranked system switch in OW2 where everyone and their mother was getting GM1 and then in an attempt to fix that they’ve now just broken the system in a different way where damn near NO ONE can get into GM, because quite frankly the SR gains from wins is the lowest it’s ever been.
Like holy christ just revert the rank system to OW1 it’s so insane that we switched from it in the first place.
The saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is just non-existent at blizzard HQ. “If it ain’t broke, change it for no reason” seems to be their motto.
I mean it definitely changes things gameplay wise because where do you think these players are going?
From what I saw metal ranks arent even seeing much change in their total population counts, but that still leaves dia and masters as ultra insanely coinflippy garbage because the sheer amount of skill variance that can occur when your rank range is Dia 4 to masters 3 or masters 3 to gm 3 is incredible.
This is the first season Ive put significant time into in a long time, and Ive already lost interest because my input legit doesnt matter.
Every time I join a match its felt like I am flipping a coin on which team got the shortest stick, or maybe who ended up getting the return the christ. Sometimes I am that Christ, other times my team and I cant carry a piss useless player, sometimes I am that piss useless player, all the while I realistically cannot escape this because Im already at the peak. I play in games with PGE who is like top 3 right now. Theres no place for me to go to that would ease this, no matter how much I climb.
Making the higher ranks harder to get by changing the distribution of ranks, like they did in s9, wouldn’t really be changing the people you are going against tho. Before people were gm, now they are masters. It’s still the same people tho. The people who actually belonged at old gm1 are still gm. People who were gm only because it was as easy as ever, are now masters.
Games are made based on mmr, not the displayed rank. The game could be just bronze 5 to bronze 1 only and games would still be the same as now.
As for the rank resets, since those are changing mmr, and one happened 2 weeks ago. That can certainly cause issues.
Did this recent reset/adjustment affect mmr? I need it to. My skill has certainly decayed, I need to be in lower games
From the way they worded it, it should have. I certainly know prior rank resets since ow1 did affect mmr. Did some drives for the guns and didn’t do ranked on this account since finishing top500 in season 5 of ow1. All my placements were in plat, and actually felt like plat, no where near what my games were once upon a time. Oddly enough tho, open queue mmr stayed the same. So doing those placements and placed gm 2 seasons ago.
I mean yeah it’s the start of a season. It’s the same thing every time even when there’s no rank reset
Ill see you back here in another couple weeks when this doesnt change because 2 weeks is more than enough time for the dedicated high elo players to start making their climb.
Many many many people on that list already have hundreds of games, Ive already put in over 100
By this point most peoples ranks are settled, thats the only reason Top 500 opens now instead of at Season launch.
And many many more don’t. See how many t500 players have more than like 100 game in the entirety of last season