Win Trading on Aether

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Unfortunately, SE has shown time and time again that they'll never actually do anything against these people.
They've known about it for the longest, and we've gave multiple reports, but the most we'd get is "there's not enough proof".

The day they take PvP seriously will be a miracle.

[Zojha]

I thought ranked matches were supposed to match you to equal ranks.

But they don't, because there are not enough players to do that. They match two tiers up and down. That means the partners only need to be within that frame - bronze/gold, silver/plat, gold/diamond.

Moreover, with the way point loss works, you can trade 2 wins for the boosted for 1 win for the booster and both will still climb if the average team ratings are roughly equal. It's not until the booster enters gold that this doesn't work anymore, but by then the boosted sits comfortably in diamond.

It's probably part of why they thought about restricting ranked queues to primetime hours at some point.

[Krolja]

I'm so exhausted hoping that SE will take notice of all the problems this current system has. Tons of threads offering solid fixes and suggestions, but we get 4.06a which is hilariously bad. Win traders will never be banned or stopped, the system has no hopes of being fixed or changed for the better for the players. At this point, queue your 45 min DPS Feast wait and hope the game blesses you with teammates that aren't an Ast or can stay online for the entirety of a match. May the odds be ever in your favor, cause they sure as hell aren't in mine.