Pretty much what the title says. A lot of the frustration I see in the Primal community is that the idea of every getting good enough to get to the next tier is next to impossible. That in turn makes people not as willing to play and makes the current situation of players sitting on rating that much worse and makes the matchmaking situation that much worse as well.

To elaborate on the matchmaking issue, people say there is a problem in that it to readily matches golds and plats with unranked players, which is true, but when there are already a very small amount of gold and platinum players in the pool already, there really is no way to have games played without it doing just that.

So why would lowering the tier requirements help fix this issue? A few reasons actually, I will list them as follows:

1. Lowering tiers would more accurately define people's skill. Currently a gold at 900 is leagues lower in skill compared to a gold at say 1400.

2. This builds on #1 in that lowering tier requirements would increase the number of silvers/golds/platinums/diamonds. If there are more people placed in these ranks then matchmaking will more readily do what SE claimed it would do in the previous patch notes, placing golds/plats/diamond in the same games with unranked/bronze/silver in others. And it will be more accurate to skill.

3. Lowering the difference between tiers encourages people to play more. A gold player at say 1100 may not be inclined to play since platinum is so far away at 1500 plus qualifiers. However if the difference would only be till 1200 for platinum then that gold player has incentive to at least try.

4. Builds on reason #1 a bit more, makes the tier system accurately reflect who belongs where. Me seeing the top 20, let alone most rank 1 players not be anywhere close to diamond is silly to me. It makes me feel that SE came up with random numbers for the tiers and ran with it without putting in any regard of it being achievable or not. Imo, hard tier placement shouldn't overshadow things like top 10 or rank 1, as that seems to be the case now.

I personally believe good tier thresholds would be the following

Bronze: 400 and below
Silver: 400-700
Gold: 700 - 1000
Platinum: 1000 - 1300
Diamond: 1300+

I don't like the idea of a unranked tier that doesn't let you lose points because there are people that cannot win if they cannot win then they obviously need to lose points until there are placed in a correct rating.

Also a little side rant I want SE to consider. Currently top 10 English titles are a joke. The idea that a top 10 finish, Beta Wolf, is overshadowed by a achievement in a completely different mode, 5000 wins in the The Fold = Alpha Wolf, just goes beyond common sense. Please change it to something more befitting of the achievement please.

Anyway thank you for reading.