unranked is so stupid, here is a comprehensive list of everything unranked is good for.
1: saving egos
2: smurfing
and the second one is a far more common reason, literally all unranked is is a separate ranked that doesn’t give you a league or anything. and in my opinion it isn’t worth to let people play in unranked so that they don’t feel stressed out, because it allows all sorts of horrible misuse.
Here’s the only counter argument im thinking of:
“BUT PEOPLE MIGHT USE IT FOR TESTING NEW STRATS”
this argument is stupid, because they aren’t willing to test it out in their own rank because they dont want to ruin their mmr, but they are perfectly willing to ruin someone else’s mmr.
also for the record unranks are mixed in with ranks so if someone hasn’t dont unranked in years and are in masters they can go unranked and play against gold league’s.
and to make matters worse, you loose mmr as if they were someone at your level, so generally from 5-20 mmr.
your right sorry i forgot to mention that for people who dont know, unranked and ranked play in the same games, meaning i can play against a gm on his unranked mmr.
That’s not because of unranked, it is because less than 10 k people play this game. All the casual noobs left years ago, only the skilled players are left. You’re gonna run into a lot of people with mmr 300-400 higher than you no matter what you do.
You know, sometimes people want to play starcraft and play relaxed and not putting in effort and not get their MMR penalized for it.
But oh well, with how much you whine about everything I doubt you understand that concept.
Actually, unranked is a feature that wasn’t present in the original game, and that I believe the players requested. There are some people who, understandably, can get a bit salty in my community. One of them mentioned that it was a good thing unranked didn’t hurt his points/MMR when he faced opponents he thought were using imba strategies, otherwise he would’ve raged.
I recall one of the reasons the devs stated for this mode was to reduce ladder anxiety, to play with less stakes and less pressure.
Having ranked players get/lose points from the same matchmaking than unranked ones however is somewhat more questionable. But that’s that, or longer waiting times. And if you do play in M1-GM, those waiting times can already get quite long.
Smurfcraft by definition is quite toxic.
I dislike smurfs. I see many, too many of them, in gold 1v1.
Not only are these diamondeers (or higher) rekting lower league players, but they often have inappropriate names and they say very inappropriate things ingame. They lose nothing by being reported.
you are really lucky. the worst I had was ~900 dif and that im ranked. lost 0 and he got +1-3. btw the game showed me how strong terran is. and that as a zerg in ecco and tec you have no chance if you make a mistake. and terran can finish the game relatively early.
