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should riot put the extra 2 tier in between bronze & silver & somewhere else instead?

delalb·10/7/2018, 9:26:09 AM·2 votes·2,230 views

riot says they r going to add 2 extra tiers next season, mainly because to improve player satisfaction. but they purpose to put the iron tier below bronze, & another tier between somewhere like master & challenger.

being named a bronze player is bad, that's a really bad feeling. & u add a tier & put it below bronze?! riot, u are not giving more satisfaction, but to give even more discouragement to the new players!

the master tier guys are already hooked in the game, they are not going anywhere. why do u need to create an extra tier to serve like 0.5% of player population?! u should add tiers to attract new players to the game, & try to retain those who would most likely be leaving the game, & the tier should serve more population than that.

do u agree with my opinion? & would riot re-consider the tier placements?

one more thing: i don't like how people currently are looking at the rank distribution. it's like only the diamond players (like 1% or below of total player population) trolling the rest of the players below them. it's like 1% of people bullying 99% others.

i mean, if u are within the top 50% of the active population, u should be recognized. the rank system did it by placing u like silver 2 or gold 5, but it seems the community treats u like shxt when u are gold 5.

7 Comments

Jerry SeinfeId10/7/2018, 12:43:13 PM1 votes

because being better than half the playerbase doesn't make you good. Idk what your point is, bottom tier will feel bad because they're bottom tier? like what? nothing changes, bronze 5 players will just become iron 4 players. If we're lucky that means silver finally becomes a bit more stable instead of the melting pot it is now.

Velzard of Koz10/7/2018, 1:46:52 PM1 votes

I don't understand that placement specifically since they theirself mentoined high skill variety in Silver and Diamond so I thought they'd split those two.

MrFawknSunshine10/7/2018, 1:53:46 PM1 votes

its fine where they are putting it the newest players trying rank will be iron or bronze and and then higher up the mid plat to mid diamond is very jumbled and the skill level isnt any near as close as you think. so spreading that out will improve that elo/mmr too.

that is where the two worst areas are.

ValyrianBlade10/7/2018, 2:06:30 PM1 votes

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riot says they r going to add 2 extra tiers next season, mainly because to improve player satisfaction. but they purpose to put the iron tier below bronze, & another tier between somewhere like master & challenger.

being named a bronze player is bad, that's a really bad feeling. & u add a tier & put it below bronze?! riot, u are not giving more satisfaction, but to give even more discouragement to the new players!

the master tier guys are already hooked in the game, they are not going anywhere. why do u need to create an extra tier to serve like 0.5% of player population?! u should add tiers to attract new players to the game, & try to retain those who would most likely be leaving the game, & the tier should serve more population than that.

do u agree with my opinion? & would riot re-consider the tier placements?

one more thing: i don't like how people currently are looking at the rank distribution. it's like only the diamond players (like 1% or below of total player population) trolling the rest of the players below them. it's like 1% of people bullying 99% others.

i mean, if u are within the top 50% of the active population, u should be recognized. the rank system did it by placing u like silver 2 or gold 5, but it seems the community treats u like shxt when u are gold 5.

I agree that below bronze was silly and should have been between bronze and silver, but those two decisions literally have the same end result on the system. One may just feel better, but either way you're just splitting bronze into 2 - which is a good decision because there are bad players, and there are awful players.

Likewise, adding in a tier above master is similar to adding it between diamond and master. I think the idea is to let more players get into Master (instead of Diamond 1/2). Again, it's because there's a huge disparity from Diamond 5 to Diamond 1 in skill levels, where Diamond 1 players are a lot closer to the lower end of Master tier players. Making it so Diamond 5 - 3 (and some of Diamond 2) become the new diamond, while some of Diamond 2, Diamond 1, and low Master become the new master, and mid-high master become grandmaster, better identifies the noticeable gap in skill levels at that level of play.

Realistically, there's a larger skill gap between Diamond 5 and Diamond 1 than there is between Silver 2 and Platinum 3. Just because way more players fall in the latter area doesn't mean it needs more refinement. Many players are similar skill levels in there.