Why is the ranked based off placement and not kills? SO Stupid.

@XxColdFangxX

I read this post a dozen times. And I wrote at least as many responses. Responses about not letting a GAME make you feel pressured. Responses about the toxicity of other players, about the toxicity of rank ladders themselves. About the value, or lack, of what it is that rank systems produce, how they manipulate and torture players, how they warp behaviors, both in-game and on comms. About how games should be fun. About the complete worthlessness of grinding a game. And also, of course, about how a win-based rp system is inherently superior IF we can agree that winning is the object of the game. But even I have to admit that while it's AN object of the game, it isn't the ONLY object of the game.

No, I see what you're saying. All I can really say, at the end of it all, is that if you climb on a rank ladder then &^%$ will happen to you. And &^%$ is what you will all too often be made to feel like. Ranking system valuing one playstyle over another, or one behavior over another, is nothing new. Games changing what their rank systems value is also nothing new. They expect us to adapt or die. It's their show, my friend. We just play here.

To me everything you're describing is a reason to get off the ladder, but I appreciate that you have enough fight left in you to resist the new system. For the record, while I agree in principle that the system should favor wins over any other factor, I believe even more strongly that they should not make wholesale changes to rank calculation after doing it differently for the first twelve seasons. I despise inconsistency as much as anything else in this game.

Best of luck.