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Does rank do anything like give you rewards at the end of a season or is it just a number
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Nope, not at all, being rank 1 means nothing
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Nothing but realizing you're cursed to be at the worst spot, rank-wise, in the whole game.
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And it's hard to get out of there lol
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The reward for getting to rank 1 is that your opinion suddenly matters!
I wish I could say I was joking, but too many people actually take that seriously. If we want to use the play-time argument let's all look at devotion level.
Seriously, I've crawled through 2 rank reset bugs now. My games did not change one bit, nor did the absolute rainbow of teammates and opponents.
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And it's not even used for that. The number of discussions regarding the broken matchmaking is testimony to that.
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I don't think the argument of devotion even works here. Most people think that rank is a measure of how much one has spent playing the game which i find laughable. but yeah,
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Rank IS measure of how much someone has played them game. It's just not as accurate as devotion. But devotion itself isn't accurate, so people use rank because they've always used rank and are conditioned to think it's important even though you have to play 5 matches a month to maintain rank 4.
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It's not - I only started playing 2 months ago, and im rank 1 survivor and rank 5 killer lol, and i don't even have 60% of the perks unlocked. It's absolutely not a measure of time as I have friends who played the game since release and are 'hard stuck' in green/purple ranks.
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Funny Story, I somehow got to Rank 1 survivor, and I can't loop or survive for the life of me and 90% of the time end up dead.
Go figure...
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"at the moment" sounds like there was previously a reward. But since 4 years you get nothing. I wounder when you actually start rewarding people for climbing up.
Btw, apex legends gave out rewards for free when they introduced a ranked mode from the get go. And the rewards are really cool, especially at the top
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Considering the fact that they're taking out rank eventually, it would make no sense to create an award now. If anything they should make rewards for devotion levels.
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You literally proved its a measure of time. You honestly cannot just pick up this game, barely play it, and get to rank 1. You had to win, assuming you won every match but didn't 2 pip, 225 trials in 2 months. Does it mean that you've been playing the game for long? No, devotion does that (it's essentially a record of your hours in the trials). But people still insist on using rank because, like I said, that's what they've already been doing. Habits are hard to break. And that's not even including the ease at which survivors pip with certain perks or killers pip with certain killers.
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From what I've heard, that's because of lobby-jumpers lately. They leave and it expands the brackets of what's acceptable.
Not to mention that I've had games with all Greens that were harder than Reds and Purple one game, then playing like all Brown ranks the next. It's not even that Matchmaking is broken lately, the playerbase is as random as some of the ranks you're paired with.
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Funniest thread on this forums.
WACK
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I didn't prove it's a measure of time, if it was a measure of time, then my friend that has played the game for years would be at red ranks. But he's not. Devotion is the measure of time - you cannot go into a game and do nothing and still rank up. lol
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You cannot even see what you typed, can you? You got to red ranks in 2 months. You played a hell of a lot of dbd in 2 months. Who cares about the casual players that never make it, you put in the time to get there in 2 damn months. I literally cannot play a game for that long. I don't have the free time.
Let's look at this another way: rank 1 used to go down to rank 10 each monthly reset. To get back to rank 1, you had to invest about 50-60 hours playing DBD and not absolutely sucking. In those days, no-one cared about the people with Devotion 10 that had never been at purple ranks, because they didn't invest that much time into the game. That, or they clearly sucked. Like me. Now, in order to MAINTAIN rank 1, you have to win 21 matches. To maintain the coveted "red ranks", you had to win 5. That's playing about 2 hours a month. That is nothing in a game like DBD. In the old system, you had to maintain red ranks by winning a bare minimun of 30 matches a month. You actually did even more than that. In the last 2 months, you have played this game.more intensity than most rank 1 survivors ever have. THAT is what people care about in an online PvP game: not hours total that you farmed by sucking, but hours invested in a select time frame (in this case, a month).
I can confidently say that you have played more DBD in 2 months than I ever have I'm the same time frame. And I've been playing this game for over a year now.
But, going back to the whole 'rank isn't time played' thing, generally speaking it is absolutely not. In your case, it very much is (that is a LOT of dbd for 2 months), and in the old DBD it actually used to be important, but people have a difficult time breaking habits.
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Nah fam, the way matchmaking currently is right now can tell ya rank means nothing. It's just a number at this point.
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Not just currently. It was doing this in September 2019 when the Stranger Things DLC launched and they had a free weekend, and still in December 2019 when I last played steadily. And that wasn't even the first time it did it during 2019.
Rank hasn't consistently been used for matchmaking for almost a year now. It's been spotty at best.
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Lol
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