[2021] Unpopular opinion: The new ranked system is making me a better player

Thank you for the feedback!

The new system's goal is definitely to get you to the rank you belong while maintaing fair match making. So even tho you may be going against tough opponents, you can't stop your MMR and Rank converging and you becoming that rank. Even if you start to underperform and your MMR falls below your rank, you will start to be pushed downward. Essentially, as long as you are actually playing ranked no matter what you will get the rank you deserve. Most Ranked/Elo systems require some amount of games to be confident in your rank, and that's what the system is doing.

You see this in how you gain more points for a win, or less for a loss, when you are playing opponents above your current rank.

This is a controversial change, I understand the feedback "If I'm playing Immortals I should be Immortal". I believe we handed out Rank too quickly in the previous system. Unfortunately you always have to have a limit to how fast people rank up, or down. Is it fair that we give TenZ #1 on the leaderboard after just 5 games? If that's unfair 10? 20? 50? There has to be some give and take with saying "We are confident you belong at your rank when you get there, because you played enough games to prove it!"

We are also not done with improving the system, and making changes. We've heard lots of feedback and already have some positive changes in the works. Hopefully we can talk about them soon!

Yea TenZ had that issue for the first week, it was actually an issue that really only hit very few accounts. We fixed it, he's seeing 10min que times which is much more along the lines of what we expect for high MMR players. So now that, that's, fixed it should be much better and easier for him to play on his main.

We won't be doing that big of a soft reset for every single Act. A soft reset of that level will only be per episode. We probably will do something with the leaderboard, but right now we are investigating and talking about what our per Act resets will look like. Overall I don't want to exhaust players by soft resetting them every 2 months. I think it's fair to keep the big soft reset per episode, and do minor tweaks per act. More to come about this in the future hopefully!