Impossible to escape gold.

[GordonGeeko]

A bit too early to call the changes bad, the first Crystal games happened like yesterday on most data centers.

What you see is a lot of people complaining about not being able to go through the Gold wall, which is to be expected. Not too happy myself about everyone being brought down to Bronze, but it's just a temporary elo hell. The "real" Crystal players will climb out. The only changes most people have seen is a bigger player pool from Unranked to Gold, not the demotion.

About the cheating, I think people don't realize that PVP players can spot it when there's any. That speedhacking video in the other post was not some shocking revelation. The Aether PVP community knew for a few days that this person was cheating, they have been reported and now we are almost taking bets if they'll make it to Crystal before SE bans them (if they do). As for wintrading, do people really don't think we can spot 2 players with the same class where one is AFK and the other one is performing well ? Plus, with the changes to refusing ranked queues, it probably discourages people from even trying.

Let's wait a bit to see if the Crystal players are happy about the changes when there's a healthy pool of players at the higher ranks. I have a feeling they are mostly going to be with the occasional rager that goes from Crystal to Platinum.