As everyone saw 10 matches for your seasonal placement are not even close to represent your rightful place and created a very messed up ladder for the majority of passed season time till now.
I think that the placement matches for next season should be at least 50 if not more so the system better seed out the players.
That would take half the season or more for some players
The people who belong at the top are going to get there anyway. Maybe more matches to appear on the leaderboards but I don’t even know how possible it’ll be to snipe it on the last day without cheating and paying paying people to throw.
Wouldn’t it be better to just put an upper limit on how high you can place with your placement matches? Say that you can’t place above Platinum 1, or even Gold 3 with placement matches alone? This should be low enough to keep them off the leaderboard after even a week of the tournament, without being so low as to make the placement matches pointless.
As everyone saw 10 matches for your seasonal placement are not even close to represent your rightful place and created a very messed up ladder for the majority of passed season time till now.
I think that the placement matches for next season should be at least 50 if not more so the system better seed out the players.
I don’t know about 50 but more then 10. Also, hard reset of MMR. There should be a reset of MMR before every season. They can keep the old MMR for matchmaking between seasons.
I agree
I actually think they should implement a rule this season where you are not eligible for TOP 250 rewards unless you have played at least 50 ranked matches.
Should be easy for pros and will make sure you don’t get people trying to game the system with minimum number of games played.
Wouldn’t it be better to just put an upper limit on how high you can place with your placement matches?
Don’t need an upper limit, but the volatility of the placements does seem to be too high.
I don’t know about 50 but more then 10. Also, hard reset of MMR. There should be a reset of MMR before every season. They can keep the old MMR for matchmaking between seasons.
Hard resets are really bad ideas in team games – it takes too long for ratings to converge from scratch. A hard reset involves several months of bad matches, a few hundred games to sort out. You can endure that if you want to have year-long seasons, but even then, why go through a hard reset and force a couple hundred games of crap matches when you can do soft resets and get reasonable placements inside 50?
I think that the placement matches for next season should be at least 50 if not more so the system better seed out the players.
Sure. Make it 100 matches. 200. 500. Let the system pinpoint exactly where your skill is … only to come back to the forums, complaining, because the system couldn’t pinpoint your skill variation when you had a bad day and felt you were treated unfairly.
Placement matches are just that, placement. And for the vast majority, they’re working perfectly fine. I know, I know, except for that Legend material that is currently cluttering the forums, who were all unfairly placed in the middle ranks, where they most certainly don’t belong.
Doesnt matter, if you played badly your placement you will climb if you belong higher. If you cant climb you dont belong. There always be a bunch of players that will cry “I dont belong in bronze/silver i got unlucky” even there always a lot of players that climb to higher ranks. Its the same with any other game ( lol, dota, overwatch, cs go) all have posts like these of players trapped in their own illusion of greatness.
Doesnt matter, if you played badly your placement you will climb if you belong higher. If you cant climb you dont belong. There always be a bunch of players that will cry “I dont belong in bronze/silver i got unlucky” even there always a lot of players that climb to higher ranks. Its the same with any other game ( lol, dota, overwatch, cs go) all have posts like these of players trapped in their own illusion of greatness.
Ok fine then you drop down to bronze solo and work your way back up. Since you are soo much more of a elite PvPers then these players. I bet you won’t. You know why? Because even you know you are doing nothing but spewing forth crap that not even worth one cent. If you are able to climb from bronze 2 where you are at now, then I’ll shut my mouth. Till you are willing to do that I think it is you who is the one who just needs to shut his month and be quite and continue hiding… I mean riding on that freelo train. Oh and video or screenshots with time stamps or it didn’t happened.
Funny the nerve of some people talking down on to others just because they got a unfair advantage going on outside of their own influence. But hey that’s just about right for a make believe competition. That’s I main other Real competitive PvP games where these issues are either not a issue or just flat out dealt with. Oh and the Bi-Monthly balancing patches and other game modes then 5v5 conquests are pro status. I’ve taking a liking to 3v3 Joust.
Doesnt matter, if you played badly your placement you will climb if you belong higher. If you cant climb you dont belong. There always be a bunch of players that will cry “I dont belong in bronze/silver i got unlucky” even there always a lot of players that climb to higher ranks. Its the same with any other game ( lol, dota, overwatch, cs go) all have posts like these of players trapped in their own illusion of greatness.
Ok fine then you drop down to bronze solo and work your way back up. Since you are soo much more of a elite PvPers then these players. I bet you won’t. You know why? Because even you know you are doing nothing but spewing forth crap that not even worth one cent. If you are able to climb from bronze 2 where you are at now, then I’ll shut my mouth. Till you are willing to do that I think it is you who is the one who just needs to shut his month and be quite and continue hiding… I mean riding on that freelo train. Oh and video or screenshots with time stamps or it didn’t happened.
Funny the nerve of some people talking down on to others just because they got a unfair advantage going on outside of their own influence. But hey that’s just about right for a make believe competition. That’s I main other Real competitive PvP games where these issues are either not a issue or just flat out dealt with. Oh and the Bi-Monthly balancing patches and other game modes then 5v5 conquests are pro status. I’ve taking a liking to 3v3 Joust.
If you really were any good Reaper, then you’d climb out. You take up a slot on your team. That means there’s a 4 chances a sub-par player gets on your team and 5 chances he gets on the other. The odds are already stacked in your favor if you’re as good as you say you are. That’s just how the math works out.
And I’ve told you before, Helseth is streaming from a bronze alt all the way to legend. Just watch his stream.
Truth be told I don’t think the ranking system is that bad. I have a lot of people on my friends list and they’ve distributed about how I thought. The best are near the top and the beginners have quite low rankings. It’s certainly not perfect but it seems that most of my friends are ending up where they should be or within range of that
I certainly agree that 10 matches for placement is not nearly enough. What if everyone started at the same rank? Everyone starts at a rating of zero in bronze, for example. Yes, it means that pros will play against new players for the first few games, but it won’t be long before they move up.
I certainly agree that 10 matches for placement is not nearly enough. What if everyone started at the same rank? Everyone starts at a rating of zero in bronze, for example. Yes, it means that pros will play against new players for the first few games, but it won’t be long before they move up.
If everyone starts at bronze that’s the new average, literally…. by definition. Every game that uses a rating starts you out in the middle, in this case it’s 1200.
I certainly agree that 10 matches for placement is not nearly enough. What if everyone started at the same rank? Everyone starts at a rating of zero in bronze, for example. Yes, it means that pros will play against new players for the first few games, but it won’t be long before they move up.
And a lot of self proclaimed pros will rage on the forums that’s the new players are holding them back.
That would take half the season or more for some players
Yea, PvE players….
I could easily knock off those 50 games in a few days and it would be well worth it to me if it meant evenly matched games.
Don’t need any placements matches. Make everybody starts at bronze.
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