Guild Wars 2

We’re getting 9 new specializations. How is that not new content for PvP? It’ll take a long time for everyone to figure out what’s what again and enjoy new metas.

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

Buschleague.6738:

YourFriendMarvin.4127:

Being dishonored for purely Account Sharing isn’t right. Some people such as myself got hit again at a random time, and it’s really unjust unless the accounts being shared are being manipulated in a wrong way. The issues with leaderboard boosting/Monthly Automated Tournaments are an example, but just sharing accounts and no manipulation of any sort involved shouldn’t get you extreme dishonor buffs. Account sharing has been happening in all game modes of Guild Wars 2, and it’s been really one sided to how they are executing unfair dishonors. Especially when I know there are a ton of people who have account shared, but I myself get hit due to being a big name in Season 5 incidents. Investigations need to be more stronger, and not just based on IP’s. Sure it’s ToS violations, but I feel as long as nothing bad is happening like just doing dailies for a friend while they’re on vacation or casual stuff shouldn’t be punished severely. Before you decide to give out more dishonors, really look into things.

I’d just be happy it isn’t a ban, you’re the one breaking the TOS agreement.

I know that, but that alone shouldn’t dishonor for the rest of the PvP season if nothing bad like manipulation involved. Look at PvE boosting/Account sharing on that part. They don’t look into that as much, and it’s one sided because of the outrages from this community. My point is that they just take big names that people complain about and hit them to please everyone without actually looking into it fully. I knew the risks, but purely account sharing shouldn’t be punished severely unless you manipulate things for the bad reasons. It’s just lazy on their part, and it doesn’t change my view on it.

Acandis.3250:

Skittledness.5106:

it was scummy and they knocked all out of decent teams that deserved higher rewards by knocking them out earlier than they shouldve in the tournament by a combination of doing the minimum qp in order to knock out higher seated teams and also by the unexpected factor of unrecognizable pvers playing on a top tier level and getting the jump on people.

Obviously the fact that they won should be enough evidence for everyone to agree that it was Abj.
But the “solid” evidence youll need to actually take action is up to you after repeated offenders continue to make a mock out of you.

I find it interesting that you’re only ratting out the team that beat you and choose to ignore the blatant accountshare going on in your team (talking about Kraalle playing on Helio’s account).

Basically, you’re ok with cheating so long as it’s in your favor, but you’ll cry a river when it’s against you.

Marvin, the problem with your argument is that you want Anet to look into all this stuff thoroughly and across all game modes. Do you really think Anet has the time or resources for that? Think about what you’re asking…you want Anet to dedicate some of their employees to these investigations. Every minute they spend looking at technical metadata and player-provided evidence to sort out these kinds of issues is time that these employees aren’t working on something useful that moves the video game forward. Why would Anet want to spend time and money on that? If it’s something so severe that Anet can’t ignore it then of course they’re going to have to investigate the issue and deal with it, but in general it’s time and money wasted to do these investigations. Try to think about this stuff as if it was your business, this whole thing is a distraction that costs them money, not to mention it puts the integrity of their game into question (because PvP is a competitive game mode).

To be honest though Acandis is 100% right, there’s a lot more people who should be getting hit with permanent dishonor than the 10 on that list. There’s a good number of people on Discord(s) who have been talking about paying another player to get the God of PvP title or legendary rank and these people are participating in boosting through various methods which has damaged the quality of matches since season 2 and proliferated since season 5. The funny part is some of the people doing this stuff aren’t even being covert about it. I won’t put names on this forum but look at the first link if you don’t believe me, here’s a blatant example of account sharing/swapping in order to pair a high-rated player with a low-rated player, if you listen to the audio you’ll hear the following… [Player 1]: “Just get on a different account then…” [Player 2]: “Umm I’m not sure if I have another low-rated one.” The players on this video clip are talking about swapping accounts (that they don’t own by the way but have access to) on stream! How much more open about sharing accounts and boosting could you be? Oh and the most ironic part of all is these are the same people who cry the loudest about the poor state of PvP while they’re contributing to its downfall. To be honest with you I hope Anet continues to draw a hard line in the sand and permanently dishonors more players so that all of the people who have been boosting get a swift kick to their ego’s and this kind of stuff stops happening in future seasons of PvP.

[Link]: https://streamable.com/egcne

Also if you want to understand some of the methods being used to manipulate matches just read the first post on this forum thread (See Link Below):

[Link]: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Match-Manipulation-Solo-Duo-Is-The-Problem

Here’s a discord image of a player most platinum/legendary PvP’ers know offering to boost another player to top 10 (See Link Below):

[Link]: http://imgur.com/a/ofeYT

Sean.8921:

The IRL lawyer in me wants to get a few things straightened, especially the implied feelings of entitlements growing here.

Nothing in the Conduct Breaches Outcomes, User Agreement, or any legal documentation ever states that Anet owes us a duty to rationalize or otherwise prove up their punishments. Attack this at whatever angle you all wish, but the bottom line is it’s all futile discussion because we’re not entitled to the evidence. Heck, every response to ban appeals I’ve read since launch on these forums and the subreddit included nothing more than cursory explanations. What is going to make anyone here today think that raising a valid issue about the lack of evidence will get anywhere?

Regarding the “witch hunt,” the only innocent victims of said hunt are the rest of Ethereal Guardians who are in no way involved with this matter, and yet reportedly harassed as though the entire guild participated in a conspiracy. I’ve spoken with several friends in EG who are still taunted about it to this day.

Finally someone gets it…Anet doesn’t owe anyone an explanation. We’re using their software and they can make whatever decision that they want regarding our accounts and our ability to play on our accounts, at any time. When you agreed to use their software, you agreed to these constraints. It’s no different anywhere else, go read the Terms of Service on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/terms.php), etc. Move on with your lives and stop QQ’ing about the whole thing. I get that some of you have friends who got banned but you’re not going to convince Anet differently by whining. When you look at this thing and just call it “account sharing” and try to minimize the damage done to the game/community you’re being disingenuous anyways. To you it may not be a big deal but it costs Anet a lot of money to develop these features and implement them into the game. When their new features are immediately being threatened by manipulative behavior they have to react. Anet is better off having a hard-line stance on this whole thing because they are a business and they need to protect their product’s integrity and their back pocket. When people are punished severely it tends to prevent the incident from occurring in the future. If it was your video game and you cared about its longevity you would do the same thing.

There’s some people on that list I wish weren’t banned but I’d rather you guys have a hard stance than a weak one (like Blizzard does in Overwatch). Good job.

Aeroxe.8140:

I do believe that their actions are serious, and I appreciate anet’s transparency. However, a permanent ban from pvp for people who only pvp is basically a perma-ban entirely, which seems contrary to anet’s usual banning philosophy. From what I understand, perma bans are almost never given out-bans are usually a 1-2 year-thing.

I’m speaking not to defend the actions of these players, but to ask why anet has taken a somewhat different and aggressive stance here. I kindly ask Ben or another dev here to explain this decision further.

Are you kidding me? They just earned $400.00 each for their actions, they can buy new accounts if they want to play that badly…

Sly.9518:

Nothing.4953:

Sly.9518:

Nothing.4953:

Sly.9518:

Shaogin.2679

Except that we have proof the Earth is round.

Look, I get it that the majority here consider it obvious that the Abjured was hired to play for this random PvE team. However, don’t see why everyone is lashing out at Sly. Some people prefer facts over speculation, and after reading through all of this, no factual evidence has been provided.

Sure, there are causes for suspicion, and the situation should be investigated, but at the same time Sly isn’t lying when he stated that there isn’t any proof atm.

So basically, is it likely these guys paid the Abjured to play for them? Sure, but also keep in mind that it is not yet proven and these guys could be completely innocent. Maybe it is a good idea to keep the slander to a minimum and keep an open mind until Anet has finished investigating?

Thank you Shaogin someone gets it. I’m just looking for proof instead of blindly accusing anyone of foul play.

And @phokus it’s not weird especially if they don’t care enough to post on the forums, again baseless speculation without proof. And not knowing someone doesn’t mean they are not good at aspects of the game, even in real life not everyone knows everyone that is good at a similar task or activity.

And if proof was as bountiful kitten many people claim then where is it?

No one is lashing out at you Sly, stop trying to be a victim lmfao. You’ve been an apologist towards what everyone involved in the monthly AT did since this thread was created.

Arenanet simply has system and networking information that is not available to us as consumers. This data can help them track who was responsible. You’re asking people on these forums to provide proof but the information required for digital fingerprints are something that only Arenanet will likely have access to.

Who cares anyways, I hope all these kids get banned. The repeated manipulation going back to season 2 and its proliferation thereafter has made playing Ranked a waste of time. It’s annoying having the same group of try hards ruin individual matches, the leaderboard rankings, and individual rewards season after season. The irony is, these are many of the same people who complain about the state of PvP while they’re sitting there contributing to its downfall.

Oh where did I play the victim? Shaogin said that people lashed out not me. Or wait am I now Shaogin too? Lulz

Check my posts not once did I play the victim lulz, and where did I condone or defend the accused’s supposed actions? Or where I said they didn’t do anything? Oh right I never did, all that I have asked for and have stated multiple times is for the accusers that claim to have overwhelming proof(specifically a certain individual) to provide this overwhelming amount of proof that they have so their accusations are no longer baseless slander. Reading comprehension is helpful here.

And again I’m not the one making accusations all the while saying I have definitive proof of the cheating like multiple people have said in this thread. So again he accusers are the ones that would have to provide proof to back up their accusations and their as of now and until proven otherwise Slander.

So again Lulz.

TL;DR of my stance in this thread.

People making accusations say they have overwhelming proof but have yet to post it to back up their accusations effectively making their claims slander.

Again all I’m asking for is the Overwhelming proof Certain players say that they have.

#Lulz

Sly, you’re asking for proof that the player-base cannot provide. It’s that simple. The technical metadata that you need to determine who’s involved is proprietary data collected by Arenanet and invisible to us as end-users (for obvious privacy reasons). You said reading comprehension is helpful and yet you missed everything I said in my previous post. You’re not going to get the kind of proof you are asking for from any player on these forums. You’re just knowingly flaming this thread and it’s obvious. The only entity with concrete proof is Arenanet. Anything players give Arenanet is potentially helpful in correlating their metadata but it’s not going to be good enough on its own.

Again a Certain player in this thread stated they had and I quote Here’s some “proof” that’s just the tip of the iceberg.Theres plenty more I won’t disclose here..

So again what you are saying is completely irrelevant, since a certain someone says they hav definitve proof which invalidates your whole point.

I am asking this certain player to post this abundance of proof that they have to back up their accusations. Again so certain people can understand this I never made accusations and claimed to have an abundance of proof without posting it like a certain player.

And this certain player posted in hi tread he had made stating he had proof as well.

Or is more clarification needed?

You know that they don’t have it though, and even if they did they couldn’t post their “proof” to these forums because of forum rules. My point isn’t invalidated because you choose to be ignorant, that’s your problem. Good luck getting your “proof” though, smh.

Sly.9518:

Nothing.4953:

Sly.9518:

Shaogin.2679

Except that we have proof the Earth is round.

Look, I get it that the majority here consider it obvious that the Abjured was hired to play for this random PvE team. However, don’t see why everyone is lashing out at Sly. Some people prefer facts over speculation, and after reading through all of this, no factual evidence has been provided.

Sure, there are causes for suspicion, and the situation should be investigated, but at the same time Sly isn’t lying when he stated that there isn’t any proof atm.

So basically, is it likely these guys paid the Abjured to play for them? Sure, but also keep in mind that it is not yet proven and these guys could be completely innocent. Maybe it is a good idea to keep the slander to a minimum and keep an open mind until Anet has finished investigating?

Thank you Shaogin someone gets it. I’m just looking for proof instead of blindly accusing anyone of foul play.

And @phokus it’s not weird especially if they don’t care enough to post on the forums, again baseless speculation without proof. And not knowing someone doesn’t mean they are not good at aspects of the game, even in real life not everyone knows everyone that is good at a similar task or activity.

And if proof was as bountiful kitten many people claim then where is it?

No one is lashing out at you Sly, stop trying to be a victim lmfao. You’ve been an apologist towards what everyone involved in the monthly AT did since this thread was created.

Arenanet simply has system and networking information that is not available to us as consumers. This data can help them track who was responsible. You’re asking people on these forums to provide proof but the information required for digital fingerprints are something that only Arenanet will likely have access to.

Who cares anyways, I hope all these kids get banned. The repeated manipulation going back to season 2 and its proliferation thereafter has made playing Ranked a waste of time. It’s annoying having the same group of try hards ruin individual matches, the leaderboard rankings, and individual rewards season after season. The irony is, these are many of the same people who complain about the state of PvP while they’re sitting there contributing to its downfall.

Oh where did I play the victim? Shaogin said that people lashed out not me. Or wait am I now Shaogin too? Lulz

Check my posts not once did I play the victim lulz, and where did I condone or defend the accused’s supposed actions? Or where I said they didn’t do anything? Oh right I never did, all that I have asked for and have stated multiple times is for the accusers that claim to have overwhelming proof(specifically a certain individual) to provide this overwhelming amount of proof that they have so their accusations are no longer baseless slander. Reading comprehension is helpful here.

And again I’m not the one making accusations all the while saying I have definitive proof of the cheating like multiple people have said in this thread. So again he accusers are the ones that would have to provide proof to back up their accusations and their as of now and until proven otherwise Slander.

So again Lulz.

TL;DR of my stance in this thread.

People making accusations say they have overwhelming proof but have yet to post it to back up their accusations effectively making their claims slander.

Again all I’m asking for is the Overwhelming proof Certain players say that they have.

#Lulz

Sly, you’re asking for proof that the player-base cannot provide. It’s that simple. The technical metadata that you need to determine who’s involved is proprietary data collected by Arenanet and invisible to us as end-users (for obvious privacy reasons). You said reading comprehension is helpful and yet you missed everything I said in my previous post. You’re not going to get the kind of proof you are asking for from any player on these forums. You’re just knowingly flaming this thread and it’s obvious. The only entity with concrete proof is Arenanet. Anything players give Arenanet is potentially helpful in correlating their metadata but it’s not going to be good enough on its own.

Sly.9518:

Shaogin.2679

Except that we have proof the Earth is round.

Look, I get it that the majority here consider it obvious that the Abjured was hired to play for this random PvE team. However, don’t see why everyone is lashing out at Sly. Some people prefer facts over speculation, and after reading through all of this, no factual evidence has been provided.

Sure, there are causes for suspicion, and the situation should be investigated, but at the same time Sly isn’t lying when he stated that there isn’t any proof atm.

So basically, is it likely these guys paid the Abjured to play for them? Sure, but also keep in mind that it is not yet proven and these guys could be completely innocent. Maybe it is a good idea to keep the slander to a minimum and keep an open mind until Anet has finished investigating?

Thank you Shaogin someone gets it. I’m just looking for proof instead of blindly accusing anyone of foul play.

And @phokus it’s not weird especially if they don’t care enough to post on the forums, again baseless speculation without proof. And not knowing someone doesn’t mean they are not good at aspects of the game, even in real life not everyone knows everyone that is good at a similar task or activity.

And if proof was as bountiful kitten many people claim then where is it?

No one is lashing out at you Sly, stop trying to be a victim lmfao. You’ve been an apologist towards what everyone involved in the monthly AT did since this thread was created.

Arenanet simply has system and networking information that is not available to us as consumers. This data can help them track who was responsible. You’re asking people on these forums to provide proof but the information required for digital fingerprints are something that only Arenanet will likely have access to.

Who cares anyways, I hope all these kids get banned. The repeated manipulation going back to season 2 and its proliferation thereafter has made playing Ranked a waste of time. It’s annoying having the same group of try hards ruin individual matches, the leaderboard rankings, and individual rewards season after season. The irony is, these are many of the same people who complain about the state of PvP while they’re sitting there contributing to its downfall.

Devilman.1532:

Truly pathetic response Anet tho I am truly surprised you did anything at all. it took several season of likely thousands of reports and tickets and posts here and elsewhere for you to give these jerks what amounts to a meaningless alp on the wrist? LOL These cheaters are laughing at you right now straight up laughing. Laughing while they fire up other alt accounts to do the same cheater stuff they have been doing… lol dishonor lol…

What would it take for you to ban these terrible cheaters? Would they have to break into your offices and smash your potato servers to pieces with hammers? I mean come on….

Their investigation is still ongoing, I’m sure there will be a follow up post about match manipulation once they’re done with their investigation. They may come down with harsher punishments for those who deserve it once they have a better idea of how bad things are.

MomentofWeakness.1246:

You should ban their accounts and/or at least remove any titles earned between Season 5 and Season 7 when the leaderboards and new rewards were introduced, along with the Dishonor penalty. People who cheat to win should be harshly punished, it’s the only way to prevent it from happening in the future.

Exactly this ^, plenty of people have played 500+ games or more between Season 5 and Season 7 and if they were close to any of the titles in the top 25 but did not get them due to match manipulation then any kind of serious punishment should curtail that behavior in the future. Not to mention it’s bad for the game mode to have people cheating, it kills incentive to try and climb the leaderboards or get better when you know the algorithm is being abused by duo-queue boosting. Ban the offenders, or at least remove their titles and give them a full season of dishonor. Also remove the duo-queue option so people can’t do this anymore. Let the algorithm for matchmaking work properly! Make an example of these people, giving them only dishonor is not going to prevent this from happening in the future and if they retain their titles then they won’t care about a temporary ranked queue ban anyways. The reason most of these people “boost” their main accounts and use a bunch of low rated, underplayed, decayed second accounts is because they wanted the titles.

Some clipping > floating

Stand The Wall.6987:

believe it or not but I think the anet bashing comes from a good place. I know plenty of people (myself included) that really want the game to succeed and get frustered when there aren’t any recent updates/unaddressed problems.

+1, your most critical customers may be your most loyal and invested. It’s important to remember that the end-user, especially those who are enthusiasts with respect to their total hours played, are a useful tool (if utilized) for determining how to shape the product into something better. Ultimately, as customers, our needs should be met when realistic and in the best interests of the game.

MomentofWeakness.1246:

Please do NOT spend development time on something like this. This will further fragment the already existing balance issues (Condi’s namely bleed and burn, Condi-scaling, Coalescence of Ruin, Sup. Arrow Cart damage OP, overly defensive structure abilties, etc.) plaguing WvW.

+1, I agree with @MomentofWeakness.1246, we should be addressing the current needs of the game mode before adding in new features, and it should be realized that WvW balance is probably the most fragile in all of Guild Wars 2 due to scaling (i.e. what works in PvE and/or PvP may not be suitable for WvW).

Cynz.9437:

PvP community is small, we need more players, let’s not live in illusion that we don’t. I think adding carrots to pvp is good idea HOWEVER those carrots were added in wrong way to the mode in the past. They should be tied to wins and not just afking in matches – this way players that do decide to join pvp for rewards would be forced to actually try to win.

Also, if MM wasn’t flawed, the so called “pve’ers” wouldn’t be an issue.

Also as side note, not every pve’ers is necessary a bad player “dragging team down”. I am raiding every week, i do fractals, technically i would be pve’er. I placed in low gold this season and i soloed to plat so far. I really doubt that i was “dragging team down”, in gold at least lol.

If they are just tied to wins then bad players will see little benefit to even trying PvP. I think participation is a much better method.

Elrohir.8213:

Please stop with ascended items in PvP. This has brought countless PvE players to PvP and they do not care about ranking, they just want the coins for the items. This makes us Guild Wars 2 PvP players unable to get where we want because of lack of playskill of the players, and can not win the game with 1 player less in the team. Please change that, it has not helped at all in PvP and also fix the level of the players that fall in the team. It’s completely unregulated.

I hope you understand and respond to the request / suggestion. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s complaining here, and if there’s anyone complaining it’s because it’s really not good.

Thanks for listening.

No please keep the items in here, I need them for WvW, thanks. Also, I’ve ~6,000 PvP games between two accounts so generalizing is not such a good idea. If anything they need to revert them back to season 5 so that they aren’t kitten to get like they are now.

PvE players have a choice to come and play in PvP for rewards or do it the PvE way don’t take away from PvP’ers just because some PvE’ers are choosing to PvP. Plus, you can’t grow the PvP community without adding new players who get interested in the game mode.

I’m playing less and less because of lopsided matchmaking due to duo-queuing. I’ve been as high as rank 40 on the leaderboard but it’s impossible to play a fairly high volume of games and keep that placement on the leaderboard. I run into duo-queue after duo-queue and since both teams are filled with high tier gold players I lose, a significant amount of the time due to the fact that I am outmatched by the two platinum players I am up against who can carry their team. It’s just too difficult to solo-queue right now without getting discouraged. I’d like to play a lot but the only way to have a good rating is to play LESS not more which is really hurting the queue times and the overall pvp experience.

I am also NOT happy with the rewards being nerfed. They were much better in season 5 although I do think anet has done a good job in the way of increasing the gold we gain during seasons. I’d like to earn ascended shards of glory even during the off season and perhaps at more than 50 ascended shards because it takes a lot of time, and I’d like to be able to earn the ascended gear again without all kinds of extra crap added on, keep it simple please.

Another game mode would be nice too sure, but it’s less important to me than balanced classes, balanced matchmaking, and good rewards that keep me playing. I want to actually see how well I fare up against other players but I can’t do that with season 6 because the leaderboard is manipulated by the quota and the duo queue. I’m not some ESL guy but I still enjoy this game and PvP is the best place to work on mechanics amongst other things. If anet can change the quota to give you a bonus based on total volume of games played each week beyond the quota that would be nice like an additional +3 or +4 per game beyond 15 games or something to help with climbing that would be nice too.

Crinn.7864:

megilandil.7506:

Crinn.7864:

I would never queue for pvp without duo.
1) dealing with pug RNG is asinine.
2) the social experience makes pvp more enjoyable. Solo just feels like a grind.

ranked is for personal rank, any form of “team” q in ranked mask truly personal rank behind the “team”

Ranked is not personal You’re projecting.

Ranked is competitive. Pugging is not competitive. Ranked ought to be 5 mans only, but that’s never going to happen.

You’re wrong though, the leaderboard is a PERSONAL stat, you don’t share it with teammates therefore ranked play should also be personal otherwise it doesn’t provide any accuracy to individual skill level and it makes trying to balance with algorithms full kitten when you have people manipulate seasons with duo-queuing and second accounts. These two things should be discouraged by encouraging people to play a high volume of games on their main accounts through a competitive structure and incentives.

I mostly WvW but I’d be more motivated to play if PvP rewards had stayed the way they were in season 5. I want to gear up my characters for WvW and PvP had great rewards before the nerf but now they are too overly complicated. PvP games are like ~9-11 minutes on average so I’d like a good reward for the time investment and in PvE you get a better return on investment for your time which is unfortunate for gearing purposes when I’d rather play PvP because I like the competitive game modes.

J envy.5270:

1. you really should use paragraphs, its hard to read through that wall of text.
2. i made a post about this during s5, devs did not even reply about it.
3. solo q – rating suicide (if you care about rating)
4. personally i hate having an uneven playing field, when people have advantages they use it. Ofcourse any game mode will have people trying to beat the system(i.e. queue dodging, offpeak hours queueing, and match manipulation).

i have played every pvp season, some more than others, but between the nerf in overall rewards in pvp and my burnout from season 5, and still no soloQ after 6 pvp seasons, i’m barely playing any ranked pvp(wtf no Greater call of the mists buff)….i just have no reason to go hard and i bet alot of other people are on the same boat.

Its one thing to enjoy a game mode, its another when you get more frustrated than enjoying it as you try to compete while having a disadvantage. Imo anet has to give me more reason to care for their next pvp league other than “hey look i’m at top 250, cool beans”.

Is that better spacing? I agree the nerf to acquiring things like ascended gear/weapons/trinkets in PvP really was a bummer. I wish they’d revert that change. It was really nice to be able to put ascended gear on my characters for other game modes. I am happy with the gold you get from PvP’ing now (at least during seasons), it seems fair when you get 20 gold after 6 iterations of the repeatable chest. Also 75-100 ascended shards would be nice instead of 50 =).

Anyways back on topic, I just don’t believe the way things work currently promotes people playing as many games as possible on their main accounts to be on the leaderboard and the quota system is promoting less play and less leaderboard volatility instead of more. I’d rather they have a minimum quota of 15 games but if you play beyond that and you win you get a like +3 bonus to your rating per game won. Something that incentivized playing more games versus less and playing on one account instead of multiple would make seasons better going forward.

Just like the title says… “please stop allowing duo-queue in ranked.” This applies most noticeably for the gold to platinum to legendary climb, but for anyone climbing period this is not helpful. Anyone who solo-queues (especially in tier-3 gold or platinum) is going to be at a massive disadvantage against anyone they face that is in a two-man party (duo-queue). Think about it… If you’re already competing for a top 250 spot, it is FAR better to queue with a friend of equal or higher skill and have them be your teammate consistently every game versus the solo-queuing gold or platinum player who may roll four bad players as opposed to three. Even in games where both teams are fairly even in skill, the duo-queuing team has the advantage because they are likely on VoiP (TeamSpeak 3, Discord, Mumble, etc.) communicating which gives them another advantage.

Please consider making ranked solo-queue ONLY so that it is fair across the board. If you notice, nearly all of the people who are in the top 1-30 spots right now ONLY duo-queue because its an automatic advantage. When they can’t duo-queue or if they’ve met their max needed games for the day (to keep up with the 15 game increment per week) they just hop on a second account to preserve their rating (which ruins leaderboard volatility).

Obviously a truly random system cannot exist but ranked play should be equally pseudo-random for everyone rather than being exploited by some at the cost of others. The way things are currently, people will just continue to abuse the rating system with duo-queues and meet the weekly wins quota. That’s not a very competitive system, it doesn’t promote actually playing as many games as possible on your main account (which would give an accurate picture), and it doesn’t promote a truly competitive leaderboard rating system. The only thing the current PvP seasons system promotes is duo-queuing for an uneven advantage and playing the minimum number of games required to hold a spot on the leaderboard and then playing hundreds of additional games (over the course of a season) on a second account while making things unbearable for the divisions below.

Was this intentional?