His favorite twitch personality says so. (Baiting for rageclicks and validation clicks)
while i agree there probably isnt a hard cap, it is capped to the point of there not being as much inflation as rated arena or blitz (soft cap)
But they also reduced the reward threshholds for the Duelist Rival enchant and the Elite Duelist weapons. Tabard is the only physical reward that stayed in the same place. All signs point to the lowering of MMR across the board being intentional. Lowering of MMR, not capping.
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Inflation is mostly caused by ppl pressing q. Ppl arenât past the illusion, itâs not blizz doing anything ppl just donât enjoy that trash bracket.
so you mean to tell me if rating was inflated as 3s or blitz, that people wouldnt be pushing legend titles right now?
If as many ppl were pressing q at ratings past the illusion it wouldnât feel throttled.
Check PvP Shuffle NA: 20645 characters
Check PvP Blitz NA: 13476 characters
How does blitz have more unique players than characters?
check-pvp .fr/solo/us/all-realms/all-factions/all-classes/all-specs/rating/desc/1/1500/shuffle
check-pvp .fr/solo/us/all-realms/all-factions/all-classes/all-specs/rating/desc/1/1500/blitz
it doesnât. neither does 3s
Yes I think the above user is known for making stuff up on the spot 
its more denial, people dont want shuffle to be good. You can look at the past 48 hr or u can look at overall data, overall data says shuffle is the most popular, its just ratings arent moving like they should be, so less people have been queing as a result now.
Over the last 24 hours of activity there have been
13623 characters that have queued Shuffle. 304.5k rounds (~50,000 lobbies)
17631 characters that have queued Blitz. 110,000 lobbies.
The reason for shuffleâs being low is extraordinarily self evident, the fact that yâall wanna ignore that, thatâs on you.
In addition to that, as was previously stated, itâs obvious that Blizzard intended for shuffle rating to be curtailed and put in line with 3s (shuffle being like 400 rating above 3s wasnât just a meme). Youâre all just mad because daddy drug dealer blizz finally took away your free dopamine hits.
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Ever considered people arenât really pushing rating as itâs week 2 of a season?
Lots of people enjoying the novelty of a new bracket that has 5m q times and infinity Mmr due to people enjoying a new bracket
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thats a whole problem in its own, intentionally killing pvp representation for the entire season just so people can play the last 2 weeks, is a terrible design.
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I dont think its capped. Though i am open to the idea that it is.
After every blitz 8 people go up in rating and 8 people go down.
After every shuffle 6 people stay relatively even in mmr unless there is a good/bad player for the lobby in which case 4 people stay relatively even, 1 person moves up and 1 person moves down.
Let us for a moment say it is that way even though I doubt it is, then the mmr system for RSS isnât working as it should and you would need to find another solution. A system that hardly allows you to climb is a bad system!
But personally I doubt it is that way like already mentioned. The top 50 in RSS for example have in average >64% winrate which is even higher than the top 50 in BBG in average have. Based on your argumentation, the shuffle players should be more around 50%?!
So it doesnât make any sense that the average rating in BBG for the top 50 is nearly 500 rating higher than it is for the top 50 in RSS.
Kinda false. Iâve lost rating a whopping twice in my entire 2400 push. Almost every single blitz that was lost, I lost 0 CR.
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These statistics donât tell much when it doesnât show what brackets are being played. Having more players then blitz but all of them at low ratings and stopping after they get their illusion, what I think is happening, would make sense on why itâs throttled so hard where itâs at.
Wait, how is shuffle not being artificially held back? It has 2x as many games as 3âs but itâs 200 points lower.
Because, I think the masses arenât qn past when they get the illusion.
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Oh hmmm. Maybe. I didnât think of that. However I just checked Drustvar and itâs 16k 3v3 games vs 113k shuffle rounds in the last 72 s thatâs a crazy gap to still be 200 points lower. I guess itâs possible people are quitting shuffle at a breakpoint but that would be an insane number of them doing that.