Hey there,
I've been having the same issues and even made a huge post about it. I'm not sure how many discussion posts like this need to come up for Respawn to do a better job with their research and call to action.
I'm glad I got to access your attachments before some non-EA respresentative and/or moderator will get to you about not uploading names as you may be "shaming" them. I can't stand these forums sometimes when all we are trying to do is prove a point.
I saw your ranked K/D and it's super painful especially in that rank. While SBMM and Smurfing are two completely different issues, I know that most of the cause within those ranks are those who have High K/D Smurf accounts stacking and boosting their mates or just the unfortunate Queue with Diamonds, Masters, Preds knowing that it's farm day for them. You'll have the occasional high ranked players who are just "crawling out of low rank levels" and get where they belong, but it seems like high skilled players continue to linger in low rank tiers.
At this point, what's the point of ranked right?
Either way, something needs to be fixed and Respawn needs to stop filling their pockets with money and care about the communities concerns. There's 100 million active players in this game, you would think that it's enough for Respawn to know how to hash out low and high experienced players.
I've been on about this, but the part I'll add is now since you can see what rank people were last season, you can see the wide range of skill there are in ranked.
Since I didn't play ranked for a while, I got knocked to Bronze IV. But I was technically Gold IV last season because of grinding to that level at the opening of the season (Diamond season before that), and basically giving up due to hating the new ranked system.
That means here I am, showing up in Bronze IV with Gold rank if you only consider last season. And I've seen myself paired with anything from Rookies to people who were ranked silver, but who were Platinum last season. It's pretty safe to say if I've got a team mate who was gold or plat prior season, to having 2 rookies with me, the experience of the game is massively, massively different.
In silver now, just because gravity towards my skill level lifts me up naturally, even though I'm not really trying that hard. I haven't noticed much difference as I still get rookies, and plats on my team. It's just that there are more people with current Silver rank. The games are not different, though, varying massively in quality of skill.
@KelRieverWhat’s your opinion on rank “decay”?
Anyone who frequents these forums probably knows I hate strict matchmaking in pubs, but I honestly want stricter matchmaking in ranked.
I feel like the rank decay/split demotion only serves to hurt the health of the game. Choosing to play ranked is like saying “please give me the most competitive/tournament-like game possible”. I feel like matchmaking should be as tight as realistically possible in ranked. These half season demotions only increase the likelihood that higher tier players abuse lower tier players. I’m ok with this in pubs (because nothing is on the line), but the game needs to be the fairest version of itself when something is on the line (rp).
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