A win should gain you points towards a goal, a loss should just keep you steady. They were flirting with this and too many people complained, but this is the only way to keep a nice carrot at the end of the stick AND sort people out reasonably well.

on the contrary, someone leaving early screws the other team now. I’ve had matches where my team on offense captures point A on a sprint, someone on defense bails, and the match is outright cancelled.

Yeah, I don’t care at all about where they place me, just let me feel like I’m working towards something Blizzard! I mean, if I have a 3:2 win-lose ratio, my skill rating should be going up, not down. As it stands, I am reluctant to play, because I could have a winning strak and lose it all in two matches.

Win a match, gain 10 points, lose a match, lose 200 hundred, it’s crazy.

Yeah they’ve perpetually had the wrong mentality about how to fix the ranking system. First their thinking was “oh people dont like seeing the progress bars go up and down, so we’ll change the scale, but leave everything else alone” and now it’s “People started too high, that’s why they keep dropping”.

No. Neither of…

Win a match, gain 10 points, lose a match, lose 200 hundred, it’s crazy.