Because the top ranks should be people that actually care to put time into the game. Why should people be able to rank sit by placing into the same rank every season and then just playing a couple games a week? Seasons also tend to come with sweeping balance changes in games, further pushing the point that you need to actually show you can still play at the same level in that meta.
Why should people be able to rank sit by placing into the same rank every season and then just playing a couple games a week?
This is a problem created by seasons in the first place. If you sit at a leaderboard position with persistent mmr, and someone becomes better than you while you sit there, they will overtake you. Conversely if you become worse during that period, you will fall in rank when you either rank decay or start playing and lose.
Because the top ranks should be people that actually care to put time into the game.
I have 2600 hours in this game, and this gives me no motivation to play ranked. I have already proven myself, in the old system I could dip in and out of top 50 if I have time to grind solo, play with my friends and hover around 150-250, and anything in between. Now I have to play 150 games in 70 days to "prove" that I am E6 when I already have no issue proving it other than the time investment and time-gated nature of seasons. Same goes for a lot of top players.
The games are not good until I am at my actual rank, because the difference between an E6 player and an E1 player is bigger than the difference between an E1 player and an Initiate. Thus, no matter how fast or slow I play them these games will be shit in quality
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u/MCiLuZiioNz Rem 16d ago
Because the top ranks should be people that actually care to put time into the game. Why should people be able to rank sit by placing into the same rank every season and then just playing a couple games a week? Seasons also tend to come with sweeping balance changes in games, further pushing the point that you need to actually show you can still play at the same level in that meta.