But the balance changes and other fixes are still developed… So maybe they should just fix the bug in the next patch like other bugs that they are still fixing from time to time?
This bug is annoying and some people left the game because of it - so I assume less income from skins etc. I myself left the game because of that because I couldn’t show bronze and silver players on game chat that I’m master because they had this rank aswell (unproperly displayed). So I lost interests in rankeds and eventually quit the game.
Balance changes and maps are handled externally with ESL overseeing them and can be worked on simply through the editor. Blizzard just implements these changes once they’re submitted. These are very small changes compared to major bug fixes and don’t require prompt hotfixes immediately afterwards to address other items that were affected unintentionally.
The balance changes are done by the community using the editor. There’s not developer involvement.
It’s the same for the two Coop patches. All those fixes were done by one person, a player.
A fix for the ranking issue isn’t something that can be fixed with the editor. That requires backend work by Bliz.
A human life and a video game, not comparable, not analogous.
But as for the bug fixing, Bliz has addressed the more serious, larger impact bugs. Unfortunately this rank display issue isn’t seen as a priority.
How many times and for how long unfortunately isn’t playing into a display issue’s priority.
A history of addressing larger bugs unequivocally proves this wrong. At most, it can be said that Bliz cares less about the game, just like any studio would when they shelve old products in favor of new ones.
But, how would you feel, when you invested so much time and money, and the game places you 3 leagues below every season and you get tons of smurfs and mh.
If you are referencing to your random mmr being at d3 and your placed league being g3 then as i explained to you its not really a bug rather than how provisional mmr works.
Your last random ranking is from 2020 meaning your previous random ranking got reset. Now you did your 5 placements matches again and got placed in diamond last season.
Because you are still in provisonal mmr (you have played less than 20 matches with random) the system works differently for you and puts you in a lower league. If you win 1 or 2 games it will promote you quickly until you are at your correct rank.
The reason behind that is its a) demotivating and anxiety inducing if you are placed in a higher league and you drop down out of that league and b) because how the mmr system works you rather get higher mmr at first than you probably are and you rather rank down instead of rank up, also your placement match mmr is anchored to your highest mmr with other races. Meaning you are facing 3k players.
The same that is happening to you happend to the poster in this blog from 2016 (as it happend to everyone else). Tho he is at 3700 mmr he got placed silver. But its just how this ranking system works. He gets to his correct league soon after some wins.
TLDR: Play (win) more matches and your league will be displayed correctly. Tho obviously the master bug still exists but you shouldnt be affected by it right now.
Your rank doesn’t determine who your matched with, your MMR does.
Only the rank is bugged, so your are still being matched appropriately based on MMR. Smurfs don’t play into it.
Due to SC2’s retired status, only serious, large impact, game breaking bugs are currently being addressed.
And that is not an excuse, it’s the reality of retired video games no matter the game or the studio. It is the eventual fate of all video games: being shelved in favor of new projects. And in doing so, it’s no longer the priority it used to be.
Although there is provisional MMR, there is also a long standing bug with ranks being displayed incorrectly. Even once one is out of the provisional period, the rank often will still not be correct.
We create our on reality. Nothing is impossible, and I believe we don’t need to settle.
I don’t want to argue.
However the game has both an active ladder and competetive scene, plus new players coming in.
I do understand and respect your opinion.
However I think many things can still be fixed, be it: either community can handle it and fix it, or make a donation or subs so we have proffesionals fix, or many other ways,
I am in title to express my opinion and my solutions, even if you have different opinion and I said I respect your opinion.
True, but it doesn’t affect the obective reality that we all have to share.
I haven’t been trying to stop you. When it comes to the rank bug and it getting fixed, I’ve only been explaining the current objective reality that we all face.
Yeah thats true.
But here i was specifically referring to the provisional mmr behaviour since mindspirit thought it was a common league bug. Which is very likely not the case here. If he wins some matches (i think even one win would suffice) he would get promoted.
But yeah there are many bugs. The master bug or that for example bronze mmr is sometimes higher than plat mmr so diamond-master players could just get placed bronze and so on.