Respawn Is a Joke
I'll just leave this here. Keep getting paid to not be able to figure out that this should never happen.
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The divisions in order from lowest to highest are:
(Rookie) - Bronze - Silver - Gold - Platinum - Diamond - Master - (Predator).
All divisions have 4 ranks, with 4 being the lowest. You can only be placed into Rookie once now I believe and Predators are not actually a bracket they are just the top 750 Masters on each platform. This guy was a Predator twice and is now playing in the Bronze 4 (absolute lowest) division. Meaning that at one point in time this player was one of the best 2000 players in all of Apex (twice across 2 seasons) and is now playing in Bronze 4 against the very lowest skilled players. All because Respawn cannot figure out how ranked play should work. It's the equivalent of an NFL quarterback playing against highschool teams. It's why Apex is hemorrhaging players.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. This guy should only ever be in the top bucket. Period. I don't care what season his predator badge comes from.
But, to play devil's advocate, if they finally built a proper skill assessment tool and actually started using it for the purposes of matchmaking, then you would be just as likely to face this exact same player with the exception that his banner would have no stats and no badges save the one that declared him "Level Two." Because it's easier to start a secondary than it is to change your socks. This is the game we're playing. Pun intended.
You are 100% right Recon, and smurfing happens far too often as well. However, that's easy to spot and ban if they had any motivation to do so. They're still printing money with this game so unfortunately they do not. If a level 15 account is dropping 20 bombs in gold lobbies you ban them, easy peezy. These are fun wishes. I'm glad to see someone else on here has some common sense.
