Just get rid of ranked

[GordonGeeko]

Honestly, I am not 100% sure how the algorithm works, but it’s there. I thought your ranked rank might affect the casual matchmaking so I lowered mine on purpose (skipped ranked seasons) to see if it would affect the matchmaking, as I seem to be mostly matched with very very underperforming players in Casual games. It didn’t do anything as I kept getting very bad teammates and losing more than I should, given how I perform in these games (which I have several screenshots of).

I suspect it’s the very high number of wins that is the issue, but I understand that getting paired a lot with bad teammates is not the greatest proof there is. But it got so bad that I hopped back into ranked where I win a lot more than in casuals, which is why I don’t want ranked to go lol.

It’s much easier to prove there is a Casual algorithm by focusing on specific players on the enemy team. I know a lot of the Aether PVP community from Discord, Twitch, Frontlines and CC experience and being part of linkshells with great PVP players. I have seen so many times someone I know be on the enemy team dozens of times in a row. That would be like a 0.00001% chance of it happening a bunch of times. There is a particular black mage on Aether that plays very well and plays a TON of casuals and I don’t think I have ever played with them in hundreds of games. That would probably be a 0.000000000001% chance of happening if it was truly random.

So, no, I don’t want ranked to go. I want it to grow because it’s where I get the best games with truly random teammates.