Overwatch ranked placement matches are rigged?
This is a bold statement and I will explain why I get this idea. But first I have to mention that my experience was on the Xbox One, maybe things are working fine on the Playstation 4 and PC but on the Xbox One I've gotten some weird experiences with the ranked placement matches and it really makes me wonder if they actually work!
What happened?
I was playing my placement matches for season 5 in Overwatch and I was doing actually pretty good. I won six out of ten and only lost three, mostly thanks to throwers, with one draw as well. In my opinion that's not a bad result and getting a lot of gold medals in eight of the ten matches, the other two matches I got a lot of silver medals, it means I was doing well. But then I get the result, I get the low gold rank. This came as a shock because not only did I get a platinum rank in all the other seasons but it was also a low gold rank, 2200, which isn't even close to platinum. I couldn't believe it, how did I get this rank when I was doing so well? But then I realized that my placement matches were different. Every match I got gold rank opponents and team mates, even when I won four matches in a row I never got tougher opponents just always gold ranked opponents. What's weird is that Blizzard says that if you do well in your placement matches you keep getting tougher opponents, well I never got tougher opponents. From the first match I got gold rank opponents and I kept getting gold ranked opponents. It was as if I would get gold no matter what my results would be. I could've lost every match, had no medals at all and still get gold. The only two times I got a platinum opponent was when that person was in a group with gold ranked players. So the game had already decided I would be gold before I finished my first placement match, even after all the good results I still get gold. At that point you really wonder why you even bother if this is how it works!
Why do you think the placement matches are rigged?
Because it makes no sense at all. In season 4 I had my worst placement matches, I only won two out of ten matches and did really bad in every match. But I kept getting high platinum and diamond ranked opponents. Somehow I still got a platinum rank after all that, which makes no sense at all because I did terrible. I don't think I earned one gold medal in any of those placement matches and lost pretty badly in some matches. Like not winning any round in control, no capturing any point and not being able to capture the payload. It was really that bad, but somehow that still gets me platinum. But when I do well in season 5, get a lot of good matches and even in the ones I lost I actually did pretty good myself. I got a lot of gold medals, a minimum of three in almost every match, and really made a difference in those matches. I didn't expect to get a diamond rank, I don't consider myself to be that good, but I thought for sure I would get platinum after doing so well. But somehow I got the worst result so far from my experiene with placement matches, which honestly doesn't make sense at all to me. I don't even play ranked that much, I usually just play the placement matches and accept my platinum rank. There was no way for the game to give me the gold rank and already put me in gold rank matches when the last ranked match I played was in platinum against other platinum and diamond ranked players. I just literally got shoved down 500 points in rank because the placement matches are stupid.
So what did you do?
What do you do? Well I played more ranked matches, I fought my way back to platinum and it went actually pretty smooth. No surprise when you're in the wrong rank, I mean no disrespect to gold ranked players but I think my skill level is a bit higher than that. The game would recognize that if it actually looks at your history and overall results. So this kind of makes me wonder, what if you get ranked lower than your actual rank just to get you to play more ranked matches? Ok I know this sounds probably stupid but think about it. Why would the game put me down so much when I did so well? I clearly don't belong in gold because it only took eight wins to get out of gold and back into platinum. You might think what the problem is if it was that easy, but it's not about how easy it is to get back into your rank but how stupid the placement matches are to put you in the wrong rank. In the end you either win or lose as a team. Which means I could just as well lost a lot of matches and got further down in the rank system. I think it's the job of the placement matches to recognize the rank of a player and put players in the rank where they belong. If someone has been platinum rank in all the other seasons then why the hell would you suddenly, after good placement matches and results, be placed in a lower rank? It doesn't make sense! So I can't help but wonder that Blizzard wants people to play more ranked matches, so by placing them a bit lower than they should they might expect people to play more, because nobody wants to be in a rank lower than they should be. I mean a diamond rank player doesn't want to be platinum and a master rank player doesn't want to be diamond. So most likely people that get the wrong rank will play more matches just to get their rank back. Unfortunately I have no proof for this but it's all very suspicious. If I would've gotten a gold rank in season 4, after my terrible placement matches, then that would've made a lot more sense. But getting gold rank in season 5 after good placement matches it makes no sense at all. So either the placement matches are broken or it's rigged. I hope this was just a mistake, just a bug or glitch in the system, but I can't help but get a bad feeling about it and that it's going to be the start of a lot of frustration in ranked matches. Sigh...
What happened?
I was playing my placement matches for season 5 in Overwatch and I was doing actually pretty good. I won six out of ten and only lost three, mostly thanks to throwers, with one draw as well. In my opinion that's not a bad result and getting a lot of gold medals in eight of the ten matches, the other two matches I got a lot of silver medals, it means I was doing well. But then I get the result, I get the low gold rank. This came as a shock because not only did I get a platinum rank in all the other seasons but it was also a low gold rank, 2200, which isn't even close to platinum. I couldn't believe it, how did I get this rank when I was doing so well? But then I realized that my placement matches were different. Every match I got gold rank opponents and team mates, even when I won four matches in a row I never got tougher opponents just always gold ranked opponents. What's weird is that Blizzard says that if you do well in your placement matches you keep getting tougher opponents, well I never got tougher opponents. From the first match I got gold rank opponents and I kept getting gold ranked opponents. It was as if I would get gold no matter what my results would be. I could've lost every match, had no medals at all and still get gold. The only two times I got a platinum opponent was when that person was in a group with gold ranked players. So the game had already decided I would be gold before I finished my first placement match, even after all the good results I still get gold. At that point you really wonder why you even bother if this is how it works!
Why do you think the placement matches are rigged?
Because it makes no sense at all. In season 4 I had my worst placement matches, I only won two out of ten matches and did really bad in every match. But I kept getting high platinum and diamond ranked opponents. Somehow I still got a platinum rank after all that, which makes no sense at all because I did terrible. I don't think I earned one gold medal in any of those placement matches and lost pretty badly in some matches. Like not winning any round in control, no capturing any point and not being able to capture the payload. It was really that bad, but somehow that still gets me platinum. But when I do well in season 5, get a lot of good matches and even in the ones I lost I actually did pretty good myself. I got a lot of gold medals, a minimum of three in almost every match, and really made a difference in those matches. I didn't expect to get a diamond rank, I don't consider myself to be that good, but I thought for sure I would get platinum after doing so well. But somehow I got the worst result so far from my experiene with placement matches, which honestly doesn't make sense at all to me. I don't even play ranked that much, I usually just play the placement matches and accept my platinum rank. There was no way for the game to give me the gold rank and already put me in gold rank matches when the last ranked match I played was in platinum against other platinum and diamond ranked players. I just literally got shoved down 500 points in rank because the placement matches are stupid.
So what did you do?
What do you do? Well I played more ranked matches, I fought my way back to platinum and it went actually pretty smooth. No surprise when you're in the wrong rank, I mean no disrespect to gold ranked players but I think my skill level is a bit higher than that. The game would recognize that if it actually looks at your history and overall results. So this kind of makes me wonder, what if you get ranked lower than your actual rank just to get you to play more ranked matches? Ok I know this sounds probably stupid but think about it. Why would the game put me down so much when I did so well? I clearly don't belong in gold because it only took eight wins to get out of gold and back into platinum. You might think what the problem is if it was that easy, but it's not about how easy it is to get back into your rank but how stupid the placement matches are to put you in the wrong rank. In the end you either win or lose as a team. Which means I could just as well lost a lot of matches and got further down in the rank system. I think it's the job of the placement matches to recognize the rank of a player and put players in the rank where they belong. If someone has been platinum rank in all the other seasons then why the hell would you suddenly, after good placement matches and results, be placed in a lower rank? It doesn't make sense! So I can't help but wonder that Blizzard wants people to play more ranked matches, so by placing them a bit lower than they should they might expect people to play more, because nobody wants to be in a rank lower than they should be. I mean a diamond rank player doesn't want to be platinum and a master rank player doesn't want to be diamond. So most likely people that get the wrong rank will play more matches just to get their rank back. Unfortunately I have no proof for this but it's all very suspicious. If I would've gotten a gold rank in season 4, after my terrible placement matches, then that would've made a lot more sense. But getting gold rank in season 5 after good placement matches it makes no sense at all. So either the placement matches are broken or it's rigged. I hope this was just a mistake, just a bug or glitch in the system, but I can't help but get a bad feeling about it and that it's going to be the start of a lot of frustration in ranked matches. Sigh...
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