How can we rank up or even have a chance to rank if...

[Leathium]

How can we rank up or even have a chance to rank if the system basically matches you with literally the 10-12 player that actually que to ranked with your rank/rating limit? like in what sense this matching system is operating just shuffling the limited amount of players to fight each other literally almost every match, and sometimes you win and mostly lose because they are the same people trying to rank up as you do, is this because the CC mode is literally dead and hardly anyone bothers with it? and my god when those 10 players you always match up with aren't queuing the game que you with literally lower rank than your range like I was even playing with bronze while at gold/plat?

[ShinyChariot]

You can be Diamond tier and 50% of the people actually play like Bronze. It'll never end.

[Leathium]

I'm not even talking about the "Skill" of bronze, literally getting matched with bronze as plat.

[ShinyChariot]

I'm not even talking about the "Skill" of bronze, literally getting matched with bronze as plat.

I think ranked is pretty dead (at least in Crystal) because it's patch lull, people are tired of the content, no rewards, at this point I'd be surprised if anyone has any morale left to keep them trying at a higher rank, the Maldstone rewards aren't that great as most of the wolf collar weapons aren't anything amazing except maybe the WAR weapon. There's a buttload of problems with matchmaking (as you've mentioned), the downsides of it being FFXIV PvP, and the fact that the three maps we have now are well and done.

Casual is popping off though. I like being able to practice new jobs without pressure of Ranked. Plus win or lose, it's so one sided, it ridiculous. The match results and stats at the end are so outlandishly horrible it gets a good laugh out of me every time.

(I'm also in Tokyo timezone so I'm definitely not at active hours most of the time.)

[Risvertasashi]

You can be Diamond tier and 50% of the people actually play like Bronze. It'll never end.

I've noticed that this season, it seems like everyone in diamond forgot how to focus targets... ending up switching over to DPS because having good CC is useless if the team can't/won't capitalize on it.

[ShinyChariot]

I've noticed that this season, it seems like everyone in diamond forgot how to focus targets... ending up switching over to DPS because having good CC is useless if the team can't/won't capitalize on it.

You can take the player out of bronze, but you can't take the bronze out of the player.

[ThaCa]

Didn't someone post the achievements from season 1 and like 50% of players got Crystal with rest being like 10% splits?

At least Light is fairly active in both Casual and Ranked.

[Petite]

I'm not even talking about the "Skill" of bronze, literally getting matched with bronze as plat.

I witnessed that on someone's stream. Everyone was in Crystal rank except for one Gold. Very weird since they said they changed MM so Crystal players would be matched with Diamond 3s at the lowest.

[Leathium]

All I can say this broken matching system is like desperate to make matches and it just picks whatever it feels like can games going, and patches anyone in regardless of their rank.

[ShinyChariot]

All I can say this broken matching system is like desperate to make matches and it just picks whatever it feels like can games going, and patches anyone in regardless of their rank.

It's better than no matches, tbh. It's not match making if there's only 10 people to match. If you want to argue that you'd rather not even have that much, it's best to just not play and wait until there's rewards in PvP again or just play casual. The game's assuming you want to play, because you queued, and it does make sense it's going to resort to picking out any tier of player to get a game going.

Not like I claim to know how the algorithm works at all, like everyone hating on it pretends to. Remember when Yoshi explained how the housing lottery worked? More than half the community talking like they knew how it worked sat there drooling when they had actual information about the complicated system they were bashing like cavemen with clubs. I bet they felt like pieces of sh*t for bashing the "one employee that accidentally added 0 to the pool". Because that's how it played out in their ignorant minds, because of course the extent of their imaginations would reach such a simple conclusion. The people who literally created match making probably have their reasons and they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. It's the best we have, no use complaining about it when the reason is there's literally no players. So what's the point of complaining?