I cannot understand it because it works as I expect it to.
If you are good at the game, you rank up. With ranking up you are placed in matches where other players are good at the game too/around your skill level
If you get worse at the game or are just not that good, you lose games, going down in the rankings, and go against players that are around your skill level until you start winning again (since these players will be your skill level it begins to even out)
In this matchmaking there are bronze in plat, plats in bronze, diamonds in bronze, masters in plat, gold in bronze, gold in masters. Anything goes, rank is meaningless. I could make a better matchmaker in a week.
MMR is put in with the desire to match up people of equal skill at least in theory. Letâs say you are in high bronze with a 4-1 KDR on average on dps the system is like this guy is clearly outplaying the bracket so it matches you up against other such players.
Again MMR is not the problem. The problem is it takes too damn long for your SR to catch up with your MMR. If I am a 2200 player on my main account and I get a hold of someoneâs bronze account playing dps I will eventually get to mid gold roughly on that account. BUt it will probably take hundreds of games. Which is a waste of time.
You are seeing insane SR spreads cause the game is dead. Unless you want 30 minute ques on dps you are going to have to live with ridiculous sr spreads.
Weâve all seen your joker moment. Losing in gold lobbies and cannot possibly fathom that itâs your fault. You then proceed to turn into conspiracy theorist nutjob.
I certainly donât think the ranks are meaningless, thereâs a reason I stay in plat, sometimes I reach diamond and sometimes I drop to high gold but I always end back up at mid to high plat because obviously thatâs where I belong. I just find it difficult to play in a game with lower ranks, maybe itâs because I expect certain things from them that they canât live up to. For example I expect a Dva to deal with a hitscan on high ground, I expect a rein to move forward rather than just stand in a choke for his shield to deplete, I expect Anna to be able to land most of her healing shots, or I expect zen to use his healing orb, I often dont get these basic functions from my team mates in bronze/silver so I think you have to play differently. one needs to learn to carry in a very different way⌠in a way that wouldnât work out in my regular rank.
Another thing I noticed is that Different heroes work better too down there. I can do well as Dva at my regular rank but I donât get enough healing in silver games so I pick zarya and just melt everyone. But in plat the zarya doesnât work nearly as well because they have soldiers and other hitscan that know how to use high ground advantage. I have to laugh when silver players get upset if you arenât picking OWL/GM Meta heroes, as if that has any relevance to any of these ranks (including mine).
Have you tried just NOT playing the game if you disagree with what most people understand are quite reasonable terms here?
How do you think people are going to react when the only number used is MMR and there is no punishment mechanism, itâs hard to understand, and itâs movement looks unintuitive?
Do you really think theyâre going to recode the system to cater to the whims of a few petty conspiracy theorists who are convinced that their epeen is bigger than it really is?
What information they have shared has not solved anything but rather just been twisted to support one of these nutty narratives.
Stay mad, bro. Itâs not going to happen just because a few people that are obviously out of touch with reality demand it in the one forum that they canât get downvoted into oblivion or kicked at whim.
See, this is what a reasonable, normal human thinks when something like this happens. (I know âreasonableâ and ânormalâ arenât much in the way of compliments, but itâs a bar to high for some.)
I feel like maybe youâve walked into the middle of a discussion, so hereâs a bit of a primer for you, and yes⌠very little had changed since 2018âŚ
Whatâs the point in using logic, when youâll just make up whatever to suit your view?
I canât reference def statements because âtheyâre lYiNgâ.
I canât reference how the system actually works because âYoUCANt kNoWâ.
I canât give you more reasonable explanations because you simply. donât. care.
Anything other than âi do not like it and donât trust itâ is simply a non-starter for you, and anyone who tries to be reasonable will get stuck in a loop of disregarded evidence and epistemic nihilism.
So yeah. If you wonât accept logic, then why bother giving you any?
The only evidence you have is your distorted perceptions and ridiculous expectations.