It wasn’t inflation.
It was the result of a lot of people playing RSS.
On the other side of the ladder, RSS players had much lower ratings than old 3s. Their ratings weren’t “inflated”.
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No. But thanks for proving you can’t read.
because everyone played. i personally dont care about inflation, i’m playing right now while not moving more than my season high. but the ladder will die if people dont get their rating or rewards.
research intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
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People threatening to quit playing if they can’t quickly reach their goals and quit playing. 
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people aren’t to blame for blizzards inability to create a ladder in where people feel like theyre making progress.
one season rewards are handed out to classes like DH first week of the season. next season no one is getting rewards. its not consistent and it confuses people on where they are. this is blizzards fault for not having a clue or for just not caring.
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The season just started. People aren’t going to be hitting their all time highs right now.
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Out of all pvp game in the entire world, WOW is like the only game that fears their playerbase would “sit” rating.
Okay some nerd plays 500 matches and get 3500 week 1 and then sit rating, so what?
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Yes that’s the reasonable answer. But the issue on this thread is that its not going up at all. And people largely feel that way because of the inconsistency on Blizzards end. The average player shouldn’t be gas lighted like that.
I’m sorry, what? 
^this
Oh, yeah. That is what it is. People are extra crispy coming off Crimson shuffle MMR.
Because that removes mmr from the system so they have to replace it, its a pretty simple concept.
this was an issue with season 3 and more so season 4. season 2 was super inflated and then it dropped and people felt like they got worse because they didn’t fully understand what was going on. And by the time season 4 came out, people stopped queuing all together, which made the deflation even worse.
this is blizzards fault, not players who are playing to get rewards.
What, Shadowlands? Eternal had all the same rewards as Comic aside from tabard/dragon and wotlk came out. Also not too many changes so it was kind of more of the same.
Also interesting tidbit but s4 Elite gave the s3 tabard as well. 
True but those are co-contributors to the issue.
No it was over inflated. People who never been 1700 getting inflated 2400 in solo 2 weeks into the season is bad.
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you’re telling that to the wrong person. my issue is with blizzard being inconsistent with the inflation which confuses people.
Yeah, but on the other side of the bell curve, players were dropping to sub-1k ratings that we didn’t even know existed.
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It was foretold that if a player was able to drop their rating to zero in RSS, the rapture will begin and 1000 years of Ion will descend upon Azeroth.
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I’m almost there!
To save Azeroth, I shall take one for the team, and reluctantly travel to Sanctuary. Extremely reluctantly.