How does the team feel about the sentiment around master tier at the moment? the higher elo community have started to really disregard its prestige and the players that reside in the rank have a huge variance of skill levels, are there plans to attempt to resolve the large population and skill discrepency? it also feels quite awful for master players to see that the next rank above them requires an 800 lp climb to achieve grand master
Master tier varies region by region. For big regions like EUW or KR, there's definitely a lot of Masters. We need to consider how to go about solving that problem, because certainly a lot of Masters in the tier are deflating the prestige a little. It's also not helped by a lot of positions on those ladders doing things like climbing to masters on their 5th account.
Yeah the 800LP climb to achieve GM is also due to how prestigious we are keeping those ranks, because they have number limits. I could believe that they're meant to be percentile based, but for now, it's a set amount and smaller for smaller regions.