Can anyone explain ranked arena points?
This makes no sense that I can puzzle out:
For this whole season, ranked arena points seemed to be on a different system than the season before. Lots of points for a win, not so many deducted when you lose. I expected I would get somewhere in plat and would start to win/lose about 50/50. That's what the ranked system is for - right? match you up with equal skill levels and get some good matches?
That's not at all what is happening.
So, I get to Plat, and everything falls apart. It's like a switch was flipped.
I am now down to Gold 3, and I am for sure going down to silver, at this rate. I am still winning about 2 games for every 1 loss - but the point reward is completely different from A) just a few weeks ago and B) the last time I was Gold 3. 1 loss > 2 wins now, in terms of points, and I don't understand it.
Here's my best guess: closer to the season release, lots of people were playing and the system had a "fairer" player pool to draw from. But now, something like half the players in ranked arena are smurf accounts who - while being very challenging to play against - reward little and deduct a truck load.
Anyone else seen anything similar? I really love this game - I've put in +500 hrs, but... this is discouraging. Not sure what I should do here.
Ranked Arena discourages play because the rules for governing AP awards and losses is totally arbitrary and governed invisibly. Coupled with a matchmaking system that doesn't match on Rank but player availability (and conceals everyone's rank anyway) Ranked Arena is not a Ranked system...it's just regular Arena all over again. It's even worse because hiding ranks doesn't work given the amount of people who stream...and when you are solo queued and you're fighting a team with a Club name you can easily see they're a full team.
Frankly Ranked Arena is unfit for the purpose it sets out right now. In Ranked BR you know that if you pop off you could get maximum point rewards and so you keep trying even if it is hard...In Ranked Arena you're awarded virtually nothing if the random matchmaking screws you over and you lose all your points for a loss that is expected when you're solo against a full squad. There's no endorphin rush for doing well in Arena's and it discourages play because of it...you get a couple of 14's and there's no real reason to play (and yes, i've had a win streak of 4 in ranked arena and got 14 every time for a win..)
It needs changes very soon
