Tier Capping Needs to Go Away

Sleezebagz·4/26/2015, 11:17:21 AM·1 votes·560 views

Okay, so the first thing I want to say is that I'm on Gold V. I starting playing a few years back and worked my way up to Gold IV last season. I had been sitting on a 50% win rate consistently so I was happy. Season resets happened and I placed in Gold V winning 8/10 of my placements. Again I was happy. Then the losing streaks started happening. Now I don't usually complain about losing streaks because it happens to everyone. But this time it was different. This time it didn't stop. My optimism faded as did my win rate. I haven't been able to get myself above 40% win rate. Why is this? The answer is tier capping. I used to think the idea was dumb because I had security this way and didn't have to worry about being demoted. But now I see it is the only way to stop madness like this from happening.... All the players who are lucky and/or get placed here who all in all suck accumulate at the bottom (and not just in gold but for silver and bronze as well). As soon as this happens the incentive to try goes away because there's no risk to losing games. So people feed, make poor decisions and well SUCK. As a result, good players, like myself, are punished for our efforts by being held back by players who don't belong in gold at all but are held there by tier capping. This feature is the source of much frustration for the community at large and must be removed if we are to have good players advancing and bad players accumulating where they ought to be. (I want to note I am not raging, just voicing my concern for a legitimate issue)

1 Comments

Angry Monster4/26/2015, 11:28:18 AM1 votes

lol match making is not done with teirs they are done with your MMR. So removing tier caps will not make a difference.