De-ranking in Crystal Conflict is a horrible idea

[GordonGeeko]

Let’s see if that happens again on Season 3. Where you get de-ranked now.

Well you won't be able to compare data anymore. Because the achievements for finishing a season on a certain rank are not unique. Only the ones for Top 1, Top 30 and Top 100 will be. There was a post on the Lodestone about it.

So starting tomorrow, people will get all the achievements and we won't be able to compare anything.

[Osmond]

Well you won't be able to compare data anymore. Because the achievements for finishing a season on a certain rank are not unique. Only the ones for Top 1, Top 30 and Top 100 will be. There was a post on the Lodestone about it.

So starting tomorrow, people will get all the achievements and we won't be able to compare anything.

……….so you’re saying that the rate for crystal ranks, the highest rated ranker will be very low once season 3 ends?

[GordonGeeko]

……….so you’re saying that the rate for crystal ranks, the highest rated ranker will be very low once season 3 ends?

Well it will be the lowest yes. Because everyone who made it to Crystal will get Bronze too, but not every Bronze got to Crystal.

So it will look something like :

Crystal : 5%
Diamond : 6%
Platinum : 7%
Gold : 8%
Silver : 9%
Bronze : 10%

(Not actual calculations, just showing what the trend would look like)

[Osmond]

Well it will be the lowest yes. Because everyone who made it to Crystal will get Bronze too, but not every Bronze got to Crystal.

So it will look something like :

Crystal : 5%
Diamond : 6%
Platinum : 7%
Gold : 8%
Silver : 9%
Bronze : 10%

Hmm……….here’s what I’m going to conclude if this de-ranking system going to implement.

From top % to low %: Platinum > Diamond > Gold > Crystal > Silver > Bronze.

Not looking at a hardcore setting, but a casual setting on top of how many ppl will tolerate the new system with 4 randoms.

It’s easy to get out of Bronze to Gold, but Crystal rank has changed so reaching that rank doesn’t matter anymore. It’s the highest crystal credit rank now so I expect that to be very low once the season ends.

[Osmond]

If I were crystal credit rank say 2k and constant losing streak hit me to demotion. I would quit PvP then and there lol. So it’s why I put Crystal % on a very low rate.

[Araxes]

Ahh alright. So it is not official data. No further questions

[GordonGeeko]

Ranked PVP is just a different mindset that a lot of FFXIV players seem to struggle with. It's a competition, it's player versus player. Which means you have winners and you have losers. That's how competitions work.

For someone to win a game, someone has to lose a game. It's not the same as PVE where a group beating a boss does not mean that another group had to fail to beat the boss...

You can't control your teammates all the time, you'll get some dead weights here and there, but if you play enough games, the only constant in all those games become you. Working on improving YOUR own performance is what will separate you from the game losers, not praying to the RNG gods that they keep giving you good teammates. Because if you climbed by luck without working on your game and you keep playing, yes, you will de-rank, as you should.

Look at it from a PVE perspective. Everyone can do a low-level dungeon, the very vast majority can do normal raids, a smaller number of people can do savage raids on content and an even smaller number of people can do ultimates. Are the people clearing ultimates all cheating and buying clears ? A few of them, maybe, but certainly not all of them. People are not good at stuff from the jump and clear through everything without struggle. They work on their game, they improve, they learn and they win. De-ranking will ensure that you do just that. Ultimates are not for most people, just like Ranked PVP is not for most people.

Some content will just be outside of some people's reach if they are unwilling to put in the work or the time. That's okay. Raw skill and some chance can make up some of the difference, sure, but it's nothing compared to hard work. And hard work needs to be rewarded, because surpassing your own limits (a concept pushed in so many Japanese products) is great. If there is no struggle to win, then winning is meaningless. Right now, Crystal Rank is pretty meaningless.

De-ranking is great.

[JamieRose]

Hmm……….here’s what I’m going to conclude if this de-ranking system going to implement.

From top % to low %: Platinum > Diamond > Gold > Crystal > Silver > Bronze.

Not looking at a hardcore setting, but a casual setting on top of how many ppl will tolerate the new system with 4 randoms.

It’s easy to get out of Bronze to Gold, but Crystal rank has changed so reaching that rank doesn’t matter anymore. It’s the highest crystal credit rank now so I expect that to be very low once the season ends.

It is not easy to get out of Bronze. If it were easy, I'd be out already. Geeko has pretty much admitted he was carried to Crystal and at this point is just regurgitating the same "Dunning-Kruger" BS that Riot and Blizzard tell people so that they don't have to fix their own broken rank systems. Beyond that, Geeko is being a jerk for the sake of stroking his own ego.

People don't seem to understand how frustrating it is when you're no worse at this than anyone else, but you're being punished for the sin of not being gifted the perfect party from on high, and have it happen multiple games in a row.

To the go back to the original sentiment of this topic, these are fixes only being implemented at the high end and nothing is being done to fix matchmaking problems at the bottom. So I think I have every right to be upset and if I'm going to be given the "Git Gud!" crap from some smarmy internet rando, he'd better be prepared to get told off.

[Osmond]

………..hard work is hard to accept when it comes to random ppl every match……

[GordonGeeko]

………..hard work is hard to accept when it comes to random ppl every match……

You are 20% of your team. If people can carry with 1/24 ppl in Frontlines, I think you can carry with 1/5.