Quote Originally Posted by Nav_Fae View Post
Deranking is a bad idea and there really needs to be a bigger outcry over this. This is a awful and horrible idea. Getting to Crystal rank is stressful and hard enough. Especially with bots and cheaters. All this will do is entice people to cheat further. Don't do this SE, please do not do this. The ranking was fine as is, you did not need to change it. Like did anyone seriously complain anywhere "Gosh I wish I could get deranked because I lost~" no if anything, I heard the opposite, people getting less tilted because they weren't deranked when they finally endured to the next tier. PvP was finally getting attention, but this is a good way to deter people from playing it more. DO NOT PUT DERANK BACK.
The ranking system is not fine, the entire system with no deranking or rank decay filters players upward into higher ranks and screws over any latecomers to the game mode. You cannot have a ranked system with no decay and only progression, it's going to starve out the lower ranks and kill the game mode. You don't get special treatment for playing first and grinding up to crystal when it's easy, you have to maintain to stay up there.