Why on god's green earth do we need a mid-season rank reset?

[ratfromthemoon]

Saw the dev talk. 6-div drop every season is fine it's whatever, but why the hell do we have to all drop 4 divisions MID season? Literally give one single reason why this is needed? The only mode worth playing in this game is ranked cause QP has bots and forced crossplay on PC, and now it's kinda pointless to grind ranked at least for the first half of a whole season

EDIT: NVM lmao they took that shi back immediately. Discussion over everyone go home. Devs are not braindead they took back the goat status.

[1]

Its for engagement, give players a drop and they have a reason to play to rank up lol its stupid. They 100% using EOMM metrics, there's not even a doubt now. And it sucks, no skill match making just player engagement optimized bs. Playing ranked is completely useless cause whatever u do it will drop u down.

[VoidWalker]

Absolutely braindead decision by the devs. Glad I never touched ranked after getting to gold 3.

[Phantom Limb]

To keep competitive spirit and such.
You thought you have finally managed to escape bronze-silver-gold hell? Welcome back!

[Smellycat]

prolly coz its very ussefull when adding new heros u have rescent data from before adding them as a control and seeing quicker how they influence it.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Will I still be credited for that skin at the end of the season for reaching Gold III? If so, then I could careless lol...

[ratfromthemoon]

Originally posted by VoidWalker:

Absolutely braindead decision by the devs. Glad I never touched ranked after getting to gold 3.

Shi went from a game I was actually having fun grinding everyday to a side game real quick. They want to keep the children's attention they gonna lose the adults' money

[Kidda]

If you're a skilled player then prove it. Complaining is for little children, real men just tough it out and make it work. I'm surprise you didn't complain about rank reset per season, lol.

[aNv0idr]

I could imagine couple reasons:

- Give hard stuck players a feeling of "advancing in ranks" again. (Which seems rather dummy, because many will likely just get mad due having been Peni web-ported back to the spawn room.)
- Give players a chance to advance and be re-evaluated again. (If you cannot beat players in your own rank, why should you deserve a higher rank than them? So maybe back to the spawn is where you belong.)
- Potentially reduce queue time to bring players closer to the mud tier ranks, etc.

Predictable issue is that people who used to be rank X will start to cry that their new reduced rank Y is full of bad players. That's because they'll think they still deserve that higher X rank, but in reality their new lower Y rank is filled with exactly same level X rank players than their old X rank used to be, so your new Y rank is same than old X, as they all came down with you to the rank Y. That new rank X will be filled with people who always were much better than you when you still used to be old rank X.

[ratfromthemoon]

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

Will I still be credited for that skin at the end of the season for reaching Gold III? If so, then I could careless lol...

Yes you do get the skin, badges, etc., when mid-season reset kicks in

[ratfromthemoon]

Originally posted by Kidda:

If you're a skilled player then prove it. Complaining is for little children, real men just tough it out and make it work. I'm surprise you didn't complain about rank reset per season, lol.

yeah yeah git gud skiil issues whatever get it out of your system buddy. Adults are talking here

[xBALOx]

go play some real game for god shake. This is just for some fun games, not a real competitive game

[Shamalamadingdang]

Oh man lol. All these people who supposedly solo'd to GM in an afternoon are acting real scared about a measly 4 rank set back. What's the matter guys? Just climb again. It shouldn't be hard.

[ratfromthemoon]

Originally posted by aNv0idr:

I could imagine couple reasons:

- Give hard stuck players a feeling of "advancing in ranks" again. (Which seems rather dummy, because many will likely just get mad due having been Peni web-ported back to the spawn room.)
- Give players a chance to advance and be re-evaluated again. (If you cannot beat players in your own rank, why should you deserve a higher rank than them? So maybe back to the spawn is where you belong.)
- Potentially reduce queue time to bring players closer to the mud tier ranks, etc.

Predictable issue is that people who used to be rank X will start to cry that their new reduced rank Y is full of bad players. That's because they'll think they still deserve that higher X rank, but in reality their new lower Y rank is filled with exactly same level X rank players than their old X rank used to be, so your new Y rank is same than old X, as they all came down with you to the rank Y. That new rank X will be filled with people who always were much better than you when you still used to be old rank X.

I guarantee this will make the hardstuck people crash out and even quit lmao. Gameplay isn't an issue at the beginning of the reset as people of similar skills are matched with each other true but unless you immediately climb back it's gonna be miserable for low rank players. I absolutely did not enjoy stomping on golds at the start of this season just because I didn't start climbing on day one. People gonna go through this bs twice for no reasons.

Boosted people will always complain regardless of their ranks, now they will direct their complains at lower rank people that did not ask for this at all. Just feels extremely unnecessary

[ratfromthemoon]

Originally posted by Shamalamadingdang:

Oh man lol. All these people who supposedly solo'd to GM in an afternoon are acting real scared about a measly 4 rank set back. What's the matter guys? Just climb again. It shouldn't be hard.

My guy where did I say I solo'd to GM in an afternoon? Are you just making up a villain to be mad at?

[BigCatRob]

This will actually lose more players in the long run due to burnout