May 2020
I've mentioned this in a few posts so far... but I'm just going to make a separate topic because my responses were to completely off topic subjects and it just led into ranked..
I am HORRIBLY dissapointed in Respawns decision to keep the splits with the two soft resets next ranked series... I thought it was a HORRIBLE idea. They did the splits in response to the number of players who achieved higher ranks in Series 2.. well.. couple of issues with that.
1. The season for series 2 was 120 days long, I mean come on - you added an additional 30 days to ranked from the previous ranked series, of course you're going to see your numbers increase - 2. Dashboarding issue. no need for explaination.
They fixed the dashboarding issue, but instead of saying... HEY, you know what, we made the length of the ranked series way too long in the previous season, series 1 had the distribution of players we liked before and we had a good consistent amount of people playing ranked... Why don't we just make it so the season is 90 days with one split and keep the current scoring system? They HAVEN'T done this by the way, in case anyone was wondering.. Series 1 was 90 days with old scoring system.. and Series 2 was 120 days with current/ newer scoring system.. Series 3 was the start of the splits and its just gone down hill since.
What is my issue with the splits? It effectively ruins ranked by putting an unnecessarily HIGH time constraint on players.. I am a casual player, player 3-4 hours a night before going to bed and take some days off, I'd say thats pretty average for most people who consistently play this game.. The ranked players who achieved masters and pred.. they are the players who either had a super good team.. not faulting them, good on them! OR.. MAJORITY are super grinders who play this game for 8-9 hours a day with barely any stops in between. They effectively have an ADVANTAGE over other equally skilled players who only play for 3-4 hours..I've come across the top 500 and masters in my lobbies, and I still beat them.. like I'd say a good 60/40. I think this only shows that Masters and Pred isn't a measure of skill but rather a measure of how much you grind. You only need to look at their new numbers for ranked to see this is true.. both masters and pred COMBINED make up 0.4% of the enitre base.. when in Series 1 it was 0.7% THAT IS A HUGE DROP.. and the pattern seems to continue and seems to stop around Plat which grew EXPONENTIALLY and thats more than likely from people who stopped playing ranked altogether.
From a personal stand-point, I have many friends on my friends list with 40k, 20k.. 60k kills etc.. They got pred series 1 (a few) and series 2... NOW? most of them don't play ranked and either stopped when they got to diamond or just decided not to play anymore and remained in Platinum.. Most of these players I know only get on for a couple hours before hoping off... SO I would argue that ranked series two soft resets is a terrible idea and ONLY rewards the grinders (majority) and discourages equally skilled players who only play for a few hours from competing. I'd have to play ranked every night at all hours in order to get to the rank I want, and I don't know about most of you, but I'd rather just chill and relax sometimes... so I just don't bother playing at all..
This is the MOST aggressive ranked ladder I have seen in ANY GAME. Its unnecessary and quite honestly I think it thins out ranked play.
TL;DR- Ranked should go back to 90 days, a healthy balance between time and player average time spent in game.With the updated scoring system.
But of course.. respawn won't listen to this.. and they'll continue * over players in general.