Today Unranked is back to blowouts for me, as it appears top players are playing unranked since Ranked is slow to get a game.
Unranked was fine for a window of time when top players were going to ranked.
But it appears they are back in Unranked now, where the matcher allows lopsided matches (with no corresponding consolation reward for the losers on the ladder if they exceed the paltry score that is “expected”).
:(
Not really fun.
Even ranked games are terrible. I liked the old matchmaking system a lot better. Often I was a filler for 4 man guild teams, now I have to deal with 4 other random peoples all the time. Very terrible!
You play unranked just because winning ranked is gonna boosts up you mmr (That is gonna stay after 16 reset) while you basically get nothing, so you will get harder matches after ladder reset…if your mmr is lower you’re gonna be matched up vs scrubs for easier wins after 16 when the real ladder is gonna come out
/2 cents
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Archaon,
I can see how that might be an explanation.
Archaon,
I can see how that might be an explanation.
Well i’m actually one of those only going unranked even with full rooster…noone cares about this ladder, everyone is just testing and having fun atm…we’re just getting ready for the real stuff on 16 dec
There are definitely more blowouts today. It’s not fun winning 500-100, nor is it fun losing 100-500. I had both types of games today, and it’s an indication of very poor matchmaking. The weekend was great — what happened since then?
There are definitely more blowouts today. It’s not fun winning 500-100, nor is it fun losing 100-500. I had both types of games today, and it’s an indication of very poor matchmaking. The weekend was great — what happened since then?
During weekend there were more ppl/teams queing up so matchmaking was better, it had always been like that…the less ppl queing up the worst the matchmaking works (Well it never worked that fine anyway)
That’s why when we still had old ladder going with full team during odd times was the best way to safe win matches in order to reset ladder decay wihout risking getting matched up with another good team and maybe losing.
That’s how high ladder works pretty much, and keep in mind that before queing with your team you already know which teams are queing and who you’re probably going to face when you get in….waiting for someone getting out from matches..or waiting for someone else starting another match before submitting…
It’s not all about stomping ppl you know
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There are definitely more blowouts today. It’s not fun winning 500-100, nor is it fun losing 100-500. I had both types of games today, and it’s an indication of very poor matchmaking. The weekend was great — what happened since then?
During weekend there were more ppl/teams queing up so matchmaking was better, it had always been like that…the less ppl queing up the worst the matchmaking works (Well it never worked that fine anyway)
That’s why when we still had old ladder going with full team during odd times was the best way to safe win matches in order to reset ladder decay wihout risking getting matched up with another good team and maybe losing.
That’s how high ladder works pretty much, and keep in mind that before queing with your team you already know which teams are queing and who you’re probably going to face when you get in….waiting for someone getting out from matches..or waiting for someone else starting another match before submitting…
It’s not all about stomping ppl you know
Isn’t this a very sad commentary about the poor accuracy of the leaderboards in Guild Wars 2?
They are evidently SO easily manipulated and do not reflect skill.
^ this is what happens when the player pool is not large enough.
they kinda accidentally leaked the total amount of players who participated in this test ladder earlier.
around 8k NA accounts and 15k EU accounts.
previously, the leaderboard would show your exact rank. now it only shows the percentage % if you are not within rank 1000.
There are definitely more blowouts today. It’s not fun winning 500-100, nor is it fun losing 100-500. I had both types of games today, and it’s an indication of very poor matchmaking. The weekend was great — what happened since then?
During weekend there were more ppl/teams queing up so matchmaking was better, it had always been like that…the less ppl queing up the worst the matchmaking works (Well it never worked that fine anyway)
That’s why when we still had old ladder going with full team during odd times was the best way to safe win matches in order to reset ladder decay wihout risking getting matched up with another good team and maybe losing.
That’s how high ladder works pretty much, and keep in mind that before queing with your team you already know which teams are queing and who you’re probably going to face when you get in….waiting for someone getting out from matches..or waiting for someone else starting another match before submitting…
It’s not all about stomping ppl you know
These are the same people that complain about boring farm matches, yet they actively avoid other good teams to protect rating? Sad indeed.
At least after the 16th there will be incentive to play more and to not nurse an outdated MMR…hopefully
There are definitely more blowouts today. It’s not fun winning 500-100, nor is it fun losing 100-500. I had both types of games today, and it’s an indication of very poor matchmaking. The weekend was great — what happened since then?
During weekend there were more ppl/teams queing up so matchmaking was better, it had always been like that…the less ppl queing up the worst the matchmaking works (Well it never worked that fine anyway)
That’s why when we still had old ladder going with full team during odd times was the best way to safe win matches in order to reset ladder decay wihout risking getting matched up with another good team and maybe losing.
That’s how high ladder works pretty much, and keep in mind that before queing with your team you already know which teams are queing and who you’re probably going to face when you get in….waiting for someone getting out from matches..or waiting for someone else starting another match before submitting…
It’s not all about stomping ppl you know
These are the same people that complain about boring farm matches, yet they actively avoid other good teams to protect rating? Sad indeed.
At least after the 16th there will be incentive to play more and to not nurse an outdated MMR…hopefully
Noone is qdodging atm you genius, no need to care about a beta ladder going to be resetted in one week, you just go unranked keeping your mmr as low as possible in order to get easy winning streaks after reset and that’s all you need to do atm (Someone could also lose on purpose while playing ranked to get even lower mmr but that’s a bit too sad imo)…i was talking about old ladder and ofc about what is gonna happen after 16 dec. And now that is gonna give those awesome (roflmao) rewards ppl are gonna plan runs even more….that’s how high ladder matches used to work since ladder got out and this is not gonna be any different. This week it’s just a safe period that lets you adjust you mmr in order to be in the best spot when the real ladder comes out…this is actually how high level teams are looking at this while average players just rek each other giving no kitten to mmr and stuff. As i said you don’t get (And stay) in high ladder ONLY by winning matches. Ppl just asked why top teams/players are mainly going unranked atm…here’s your answer and that’s it, noone cares if someone thinks this is lame or not, this is just how it works (Always worked and going to work after reset ) simple as that…opinions are totally irrelevant
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