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New Traveler

4 years ago

Ranked Arena Matchmaking and MMR

TL;DR The placement match system is broken misplaced players get to hard intensity games in very low rank solo ranked players get matched with the duo and put against the premade trio carrying g...

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pandareno1999

Hero+

4 years ago

@papahandsoap

I don't think it's fair to ascribe Overwatch's decline to their ranked system. Yes, there are and have been a million OW players who moan about it. But no game is going to survive a two year content drought without losing players. I wasn't around when OW introduced their ranked system, so I can't compare them. But ranked arenas right now seems really bad, I can't disagree. I don't play arena at all, ranked or pubs, because I don't like it. Maybe I'll give it a go again if they ever get the matchmaking decent.

papahandsoap

4 years ago

@pandareno1999 @pandareno1999 I would not characterize their downfall solely to their rank system, just meant to draw a parallel between OW ranked and Arenas ranked tbh. There's no clear-to-the-player system of how the AP works, and the ranks of your teammates/enemies don't even show up. I was placed in gold (Diamond BR player but sure, I don't mind grinding up in Arena) and I play against Diamond/Master sometimes and Bronze/Silver the other times. There is zero point to the ranks or the rank system atm and they should have held back on releasing a rank queue if it was clearly not ready or comparable in quality to their existing BR rank system.

Overwatch had a lot more wrong with it (content droughts, focusing the game solely on comp play, making it less "accessible and fun" for casuals with role locks in unranked and attempts to control the post-Brigitte metas) than just the ranked system.