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Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games. So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others i

Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games. So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others in what is supposed to be a fun game.

mjr00 2y ago
On the contrary, skill-based matchmaking is a godsend for casual players, as long as they don't care about their rank. If you're a bottom 50% player, you really don't want to get matched up against a Challenger League of Legends player or Master Street Fighter 6 player or The Wazzler in Marvel vs Capcom 2.
- Spunkie 2y ago
  I played plenty of unranked LoL back in the day, it was generally a better over all experience. Mostly because ranked games were full of tryhards that raged constantly and in general didn't actually treat the game like a game. ___ In fact now that I think about it... some of my funnest LoL games back in the day was when I got paired with someone way out of my league in unranked and they would spend a lot of the game mentoring teammates. And when the opposite happened, we would get stomped quickly and would be able to into a new match quickly. No one felt the need to drag out a unfun/mismatched game because their ranking would get hurt. Wasn't really an issue.
  - valval 2y ago
    Yes, people of competitive nature like competing.
- surgical_fire 2y ago
  This does not match my experience. By far, the best time I had in online multiplayer was playing Dota (the WC3 map, not the standalone atrocity that exists nowadays). No ranked whatever. Every game was a blank slate. Nobody really cared, everyone was having fun. People tried weird builds, odd team composition, etc. You sometimes played with nice people and added them to friends. With ranked matchmaking everybody is pissy if you are not playing optimally, everyone moans and hisses when they lose, etc.

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Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games. So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others i

by Spunkie 2y ago

Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games. So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others in what is supposed to be a fun game.

mjr00 2y ago
On the contrary, skill-based matchmaking is a godsend for casual players, as long as they don't care about their rank. If you're a bottom 50% player, you really don't want to get matched up against a Challenger League of Legends player or Master Street Fighter 6 player or The Wazzler in Marvel vs Capcom 2.
- Spunkie 2y ago
  I played plenty of unranked LoL back in the day, it was generally a better over all experience. Mostly because ranked games were full of tryhards that raged constantly and in general didn't actually treat the game like a game. ___ In fact now that I think about it... some of my funnest LoL games back in the day was when I got paired with someone way out of my league in unranked and they would spend a lot of the game mentoring teammates. And when the opposite happened, we would get stomped quickly and would be able to into a new match quickly. No one felt the need to drag out a unfun/mismatched game because their ranking would get hurt. Wasn't really an issue.
  - valval 2y ago
    Yes, people of competitive nature like competing.
- surgical_fire 2y ago
  This does not match my experience. By far, the best time I had in online multiplayer was playing Dota (the WC3 map, not the standalone atrocity that exists nowadays). No ranked whatever. Every game was a blank slate. Nobody really cared, everyone was having fun. People tried weird builds, odd team composition, etc. You sometimes played with nice people and added them to friends. With ranked matchmaking everybody is pissy if you are not playing optimally, everyone moans and hisses when they lose, etc.