Account wide mmr

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Because account-wide MMR is a bad idea and you should genuinely feel bad for even uttering it.

  1. Just because someone plays at a high level on one class doesn’t mean that they’ll automatically play at that level no matter what they play.
  2. If they are that good at multiple characters, they can use their “main” to feed MMR to their alts.
  3. I can actually think of dozens of reasons that this idea (and you) are stupid, but ai’ll just leave it at “No”.

What, are you banking on another 10.0.7 again mixed with account wide MMR so you can have elite on more than just your one-season Bad-Faith-Badge Ret?

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Yeah well you have neither so it doesn’t matter what you think

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It kind of sounds like both of you are irrationally mad at the proposal of a feature that would no longer allow high rated sweats and or streamers to Smurf and crush low rating players trying to learn for laughs and content.

So if those people are the ones losing in this situation fine by me.

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Nobody aside from Pika does that, though. :dracthyr_shrug:

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You’re right on the money with that one.

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Venruki does it. Pika does it. Partywaffles does it. Mud does it. Lontar does it. Cdew does it.

Bajheera takes it a step further and just straight up runs 3 healer premades in randoms

I actually got elite in season 1 on dk not ret but go off.

against people with no gear. But he to also has shuffle alts.

It’s cause it’s easy content for their streams once no ques are happening high rated.

Some even go as far as to create a eu account to do the same thing. And to sit in que on 2 accounts.

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I think there is some merit to account-wide MMR per spec, but a single MMR across all specs is clearly a bad idea. There is not nearly enough overlap between roles and classes/specs for a single MMR to make sense.

Yes some people keep low-rated characters of their main class specifically to boost/smurf on noobs, and account-wide MMR per spec would make that more difficult. Other people are doing it as a way to overcome ranked anxiety. They feel less pressure to play rated if they can think of their lower-rated alts as “for fun” queues, or they can leapfrog their characters as a strategy for climbing. But maybe blizzard should not give players the option to do this as it does allow clearly allow for smurfing.

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No, there isn’t. Imagine I queue up a new alt warr with a friend learning arena and I’m just instantly 2500.

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You main war at that rating so you belong there.

Better for your friend to get smoked then have you at 0 rating running people at his rating over in what would effectively be a boost.

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Not on a char missing 13 ilev playing with a friend with your exp. :dracthyr_blob_dance_animated:

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Yo why do people keep suggesting this idea? It’s beyond fried, can you please list one successful game ever in the history of online that has “account wide mmr”. This has got to be a twitch meme

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Yes that is probably the most innocent example of smurfing. You are queueing with good intentions to help someone new learn arena, and you don’t want to mess up your main’s rating. But maybe it is better to just queue with your friend on your main and lose a few matches while your MMR adjusts to give fair games. You can just regain the rating later playing with stronger teammates.

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Pretty much every PvP game that takes itself seriously.

Csgo league valorant they all have brackets and they force you by and large to play people your rating bracket.

Some people get around it by creating new accounts but at that point you are really desperate to grief players worse than you.

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You didn’t list any MMORPGs

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League of Legends has advanced smurf detection, which is sorta similar to what account-wide mmr would be. People make new accounts all the time, but the game can quickly adjust mmr based on a few matches.

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Coping mechanism.

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That’s because most mmorpgs unfortunately feed off the whale-krill dynamic where its entire foundation is getting rolled so that eventually you will be able to get gear and roll other people.

That perspective dominated in classic-mop where pve gear and gear in general that equated really to nothing more than time played decided a majority of encounters.

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Everybody has equal access to gear after sl ended.

Gear is also quick/easy to get.

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Csgo and Valorant are your counter points? :joy: lobby based games with 0 character progression outside of cosmetics if that. Just stop trolling man

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Maybe I’m being obtuse how is that acccount wide mmr? You literally just stated how mmr works

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