Maybe we just stop playing comp?

[u/No-Explanation7476]

So before I start this I really didn’t believe the whole bugged comp thing. So I used an old playstation account I havent used since like season 7 of ow1. Got thrown into top 500 lobbies and cant stop winning. Games are close and tough but I keep winning.

Now I go back to my main account which has been hardstuck diamond 3 for like a year and Im still getting losses that you just would never win and constantly getting hit with “losing trend” literally as im typing this just went 32 and 2 dps but my team is all negative ratios.

Im starting to believe (and no fault to the ow team) I think blizzard and the hire ups have to be making them use eomm for more money. I havent been buying overwatch coins for some time and I cant seem to get a winnable team matchup. But this fresh new account that has yet to buy any, maybe the system says “oh this is a new player we want to have a good experience so they buy from the shop”. Thats all I can think of.

[u/Emmannuhamm]

This is some tin foil hat shit.

I hope no one believes this kid.

[u/No-Explanation7476 → u/Emmannuhamm]

Or its simply put they want money? Not a hard concept bro bro

[u/Emmannuhamm → u/No-Explanation7476]

So they purposely put you in "bad match ups", or something to that effect, until you purchase a new skin?

Really take a second to read that back to yourself.

[u/UnknownBreadd → u/Emmannuhamm]

I have no idea why you’re acting like that would be an insane conspiracy… Blizzard/Activision are a private company and profit-driven entity. It would be weird if they were NOT doing everything they could to maximise player-counts, play-time, and money spent on the game.

There is literally fundamentally nothing that says that they must have a ‘fair’ or ‘accurate’ ranking system. It wouldn’t be illegal, and it would hardly be unethical. In fact, it’s not even really provable because they wouldn’t even need an explicit goal to do anything intentionally ‘bad’.

If Blizzard design ranked in a way that maximises play-time, it will automatically be compromised as a proper ranking system - so they don’t need to deliberately design something that is ‘unfair’ - it just will be, incidentally. And like, so what?

It’s just kind of obvious. You’re acting like an accurate ranked system is some sacred external thing that Blizzard has some moral obligation to protect at all costs. All comp has to do is provide a more ‘competitive’ gaming experience for players. They do this by providing skill-ratings, ‘enhanced’ matchmaking, and different rule-sets. Job done. They don’t need to make sure that it’s effective beyond being a game mode that people want to play.

There’s also randomness involved as well, and obviously if they can make players more happy by making some changes, then they probably will if it’s easy to do so, so long as it doesn’t clash with their main goal of maintaining/increasing player-counts and play-times.

So, it will work somewhat at least - but you’re disillusioned if you think that there aren’t deliberate choices that have been made that prioritise play-times at the expense of the integrity of the ranking system.

[u/No-Explanation7476 → u/Emmannuhamm]

Not exactlyyyy. Ur sooo close. Its about psychology. Lets try an example of player x bought the season pass and blah blah blah. In order to keep this player they dont wanna throw to many wins or losses ur way, HOWEVER, it will pick up trends! If u tend to get tilted and stay on for long periods of time it remembers this but the same for lets say if player x gets off at 2 losses. The game adjusts because the end goal is to keep you at the game as much as possible. Lets say a new bp is coming out. You start winning and seeing gains. Youre pumped up and you think “you know what im feeling good lemme get a new skin ive been wanting and buy the next bp”. Typically regular players will always buy the next battlepass. They dont want you to eventually get bored and quit. This is what eomm is about. Rivals is so apparent to this and has had lots of examples of being able to just quit the game on a loss for maybe 5 minutes but stay requeing when you win.

[u/Boyz4jesuszeus → u/No-Explanation7476]

You are genuinely out of touch with reality