CC Ranking System: MMR, placement matches, and rank decay

[Ixon]

I know exactly what you're talking about, That design philosophy has worked extremely well for their PvE content. But come on man, you and I both know that top 100 is stagnant. Some days you'll see lots of different players and others you'll see the exact same people for 10 matches straight. The way I see it, what we have now is a "very casual top 100" system, pick up and put down. But really think about that concept for a second, casual friendly but also the most competitive the game has to offer. It just doesn't make sense.

Issue is I don't see a way for this to actually help. You can't make decay happen every day, so you would make it what, 3days? 5days? A week? Then all a player has to do is log in once in that time frame and play a single match, then never queue again till they have to. Forcing everyone to play a single match of an imbalanced game mode just for slight wiggle in the board isn't a fix. I'd rather them see the board not moving at all so they can understand no one really wants to hardcore grind in such a disadvantageous game mode.

[Gserpent]

Issue is I don't see a way for this to actually help. You can't make decay happen every day, so you would make it what, 3days? 5days? A week? Then all a player has to do is log in once in that time frame and play a single match, then never queue again till they have to. Forcing everyone to play a single match of an imbalanced game mode just for slight wiggle in the board isn't a fix. I'd rather them see the board not moving at all so they can understand no one really wants to hardcore grind in such a disadvantageous game mode.

Hence why I think they should just remove points loss on a loss entirely. They aren't pretending or trying to make this game into an actual "ladder game," so why bother punishing people when they get derps for teammates? If your system is setup such that *not playing* is the best way of maintaining a rank... yo, your system's broke.

[Nanne]

Hence why I think they should just remove points loss on a loss entirely. They aren't pretending or trying to make this game into an actual "ladder game," so why bother punishing people when they get derps for teammates? If your system is setup such that *not playing* is the best way of maintaining a rank... yo, your system's broke.

Didn't they say today that they are improving the MM system in the future? Also they mentioned so that people can't queue sync too easily in the future because there already were 2-3 cases of people wintrading on same jobs and getting banned

[Gserpent]

Didn't they say today that they are improving the MM system in the future? Also they mentioned so that people can't queue sync too easily in the future because there already were 2-3 cases of people wintrading on same jobs and getting banned

I have no idea, I never watch live letters. I just wait for the cliff's notes afterwards. There's no point in making improvements to matchmaking if they're still sticking with solo queue only. Skill based matchmaking is always going to be questionable when you're forcing people to play alone in a team-based mode.