Guild Wars 2

Lost another match 475 v 500. A good match. Skilled play by the enemy I suppose. We lost they won, end of story. It happened. GG. And then of course half the team might accept that but the other half become toxic as kitten.

+10 bonus MMR for close calls (lets say 425 points or over, with a limit of 0 MMR so you never gain points for a loss) would make people fight harder instead of giving up around 200-300 points even if a loss is almost certain, it would make close losses feel far less punishing and IMO should make the game overall more fun.

Just musing on random sleepy thoughts.

I wouldn’t mind losing less rating for a close game. maybe if your team reaches 400 points, you lose half what you normally would. I lost 3 games in a row today. 2 of them were 478-500 and the other was 493-500. I am not exaggerating at all when I say I just wanted to lay down and cry after those games. If I lost less rating it would be much less annoying to lose a very close game

But then again, maybe not. I do not want it to become possible to grind out legendary division and this would be one thing making it more possible to do so. If you belong in a higher division than you are in, with the current system you will get there eventually. I guess what I am saying is it would make losing a close game a less unpleasant experience which is good, but on the other had it would make the league a bit less competitive, which should be avoided.

All things considered, my opinion is that the system for close games should stay as it is. I would not be too disappointed if it was changed though.

there would need to be something else to offset this bonus
else average mmr would just slowly go up

suffish.4150:

I wouldn’t mind losing less rating for a close game. maybe if your team reaches 400 points, you lose half what you normally would. I lost 3 games in a row today. 2 of them were 478-500 and the other was 493-500. I am not exaggerating at all when I say I just wanted to lay down and cry after those games. If I lost less rating it would be much less annoying to lose a very close game

But then again, maybe not. I do not want it to become possible to grind out legendary division and this would be one thing making it more possible to do so. If you belong in a higher division than you are in, with the current system you will get there eventually. I guess what I am saying is it would make losing a close game a less unpleasant experience which is good, but on the other had it would make the league a bit less competitive, which should be avoided.

All things considered, my opinion is that the system for close games should stay as it is. I would not be too disappointed if it was changed though.

it sounds fair but…. we are talking about rating, if you lose in a close call its suposed to be a fair match and you lose, the correction must be done in blowouts, a blowout hapens wen you havent posibilitys to win, losing ranking for being throw in a unwinable match by the mm sistem is the awfull part not for losing a winnable one

couldn’t this lead to some kind of mutual farming or is the gw2 community not like the gw1 community? harhar RR.

reikken.4961:

there would need to be something else to offset this bonus
else average mmr would just slowly go up

+1
Something like halving the rating gain/loss for both teams if the score difference was under 100 might be good.