The Feast

[Kaiyoko]

It's pretty sad when I see even the best players on the leaderboard struggle to climb, and quite a few of them LOSING points some days, especially with how good their winrates are. Top 30 or so on Aether is a clown fiesta because matches are being decided solely on who gets more bronze/unranked players in their party, and it's showing. Everyone's progress this season is really slow, and a lot of top players aren't even queuing anymore, or only queuing at certain times just to avoid the insane RNG swings.

Yeah this is definitely how I feel. I was in top 10 on Aether for a week and then I started getting non-stop bronze/unranked, lost a ton of points due to 2-3 dc's and 2-3min matches with bronze / unranked and just don't feel like dealing with it anymore.

Regardless, I understand your frustrations, but that's no reason to shoot queues in the foot. You might be happy to have a 30+ minute wait time in order to avoid the bronze and unranked tier, but SE has to consider the community as a whole. They can't base matchmaking solely on the whims and wants of the elitists, especially when the actual point of the game is to just play the game. If matchmaking is too restrictive, then you end up with stagnant queues. Stagnant queues create an exclusive and stagnant ranking system. We already saw how that worked in season 1, and it was awfully boring until the failure of Shatter brought people back to Feast. Even then, untested players were still a problem. It's just that the buck of dealing with them was passed down to silver ranked players instead of gold.

The thing is they have more people available for bronze / unranked to give people experience playing with players that are closer to their skill level that is more regularly available. I've been matched with all variations of roles, so I know the people are available in queue. They're matching the golds+ w/ those people just because of our spot in queue and what seems to be how their match making takes 1~2 golds per team 2~3 bronze / unranked. They would only be dramatically slowing the queues for Gold+ if it actually followed what they said in the patch notes.