It look like that kyber 1 is now only top 2000 and keep reducing in number. It will reduce to 0 in 3-4 GAC if it continues like this. I think it was over 10000 at startup. I never expect this, was it planned empty itself? Removing 100 points and keeping the same threshold is kind of weird…
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Didn't used to be that way.
But the obvious question is, if we are getting squished every few months, and we are designed to only have a 50% win rate…doesn’t that mean that K1 (and eventually K2?) will keep getting smaller and smaller due to the continued squish?
I noticed the same thing. I have 9.4 mil GP, used to lurk between low K1/high K2; now I’m floating around low K2, about 100 points above K3. And still I’m seeing the 9.5-10 mil GP accounts I’ve always been seeing.
It seems like this is the result of the ongoing squish and a designed 50% win rate.
Not just K1 or 2... if you keep this long enough, eventually it will affect K3, then K4 and K5 and then Aurodium and so on.
It already does in a way. I just take my account as example: If I have a 50% winrate I more or less should keep my position,
but for a few GACs now the squish always takes away points, so to keep my position I would have to win more and more, which per the implemented system is not possible. So after a while people will drop more and more
Also, Squishing up is apparently a thing as well.
A player's position in regards to other players is in no way relevant. Their position in the division/ League is.
If they lose points with every new squish they will drop and drop. Which means they will get less and less rewards.
Also, how nice that squishing up is a thing... but how does that help all those players that permanently get squished down? There is no "it evens out after a while". I posted screenshots here as proof before. For quite a while the squish always removed points from me, points I permanently lost and that I can not just simply "make good" by winning more if the system keeps me at a 50% winrate while simultaniously higher players get squished down aswell, making it even harder to be able to win against them.
There is plenty of evidence that the same if not more people are joining gac, so it's not about people not joining. You need to go 6-3 in a season or your skill ranking in k1 will be less than it was to start a season. There are plenty of posts and people tracking the numbers.
Either you should get more points for a “win” than is deducted for a “loss” and use the squish to remove inactive players over time. Or if you have the same score for wins/losses just get rid of the squish.
It feels a bit dishonest that you moved our crystal income to GAC and slowly reduce it over time by pushing down the reward levels artificially.
Its not about players joining its players in kyber quitting. 100,000 new players could join in the new leagues but they wont replace the players with high gac and gp quitting
@Taliana what's your input / suggestion on whether this is an issue or not and what's your proposed solution?
It can feel that way but you have to factor in how many players started earning way more crystals the minute they moved crystals to GAC.
It's a lot.
So? Does that mean that they can artificially reduce the income, just because it was less more than a year ago? How long will it take until the old income is not compared to the "new" one?
If they cut the rewards in half in a year, is it still ok because more than 2 years ago people got less?
It is now long ago enough to not always compare to before, the "new" reward system is now in place long enough that this can and should be considered the Status Quo and the norm.
To see that people slowly drop and will keep on dropping and therefor get less and less rewards because of the squish is a legitimate reason for concern and it is also a legitimate reason to try to make CG aware of it and see if there is a way to change this.
I'll let you know if I fall from K1 to K4.
Furthermore, people in lower divisions get pushed up.
Or maybe they thought…moving crystal payouts to GAC would drive more revenue? Revenue is decreasing so they are adjusting the amount of crystals that you can earn.
Maybe in an effort to show transparency and integrity in their game, CG could release a count of the number of players in each division at the start of each GW to show these squishes are not depleting numbers.
So just because you didn't drop out of Kyber 1 you are not concerned and have no opinion, eventhough the numbers presented paint a very clear picture. Waiting until something affects you before you start to take notice or think about it does not strike me as the right way to go about it.
Now I know we don't always agree on everything and that's absolutely fine. I am not writing this to pick on you. I just think that this is a situation that should be handled as soon as possible because the longer it goes on, the worse it will get and since CG made this one of the most important modes, waiting until the damage is done is imho absolutely wrong. Sooner or later everyone will be affected.
The problem is that the squish does not take instant effect. You are not positioned in the division/ League according to your number after the squish. The numbers after the first round would be the ones that are important, because only after the first round will you land where your skill rating positions you. And that number will also not be really accurate because you gain or lose additional points depending on how that first round goes.
TTLDR - I told you so.
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#ditchthesquish