how many of you like that you cant de-rank past 15?

No, it's good for everyone, they need to make it so people can't derank past Rank 10, 15 is nothing

but there needs to be Ranked Rewards, no point starying at Rank 1 over for 2 years, and Identity V has daily ranked rewards on launch...

The lock-out of Rank 15-20 just turns the rest of the ranks into kiddie pools, especially when the game has a free weekend, is free to own like this month for PS+, or if it's on sale.
I've had Rank 6-10 Survivors and Killers play like Rank 15s and worse because of this change. Now there's basically only 15 ranks in the game and just five ranks going missing makes a massive difference to all of the others.
I've had Survivors who don't know how to pallet loop, Survivors who literally don't know how to run, and Survivors who hide behind thin and low obstacles thinking I don't see them.
I've had Killers who vault windows even when it's faster to go around, Killers who don't know how to break pallets, and Killers who don't even know how to use their own power.
On both ends? Disconnections galore.

BHVR wanted to prevent people from deranking to noob zones to stomp? They just made new players storm into the ranks without even knowing the mechanics of the game properly.
We're going to have newbies reaching the red ranks. We already have them reaching purples.
BHVR didn't even attempt to prevent players between Rank 10 and 15 from being matched with players between 15 and 20. I was at Killer Rank 15 on PS4 and had a full lobby of Rank 19 and 20 Survivors.
Killers and Survivors can easily derank down to 15 and still be able to reach the Rank 20 players.
The devs didn't think this through at all.

@switch said:
i like that ppl like noob or ochido or whatever... cant derank to bully new players for their montages.

And this is also for those who think he is banned on certain platforms. He makes money playing DBD (more specifically Streaming/Editing his games) so, he is not going to just give that up. He just plays the H#CK out of one account, gets banned, uses $20 from the $thousands he made with that account to buy another version of DBD and signs up for another account. Bans dont phase him, adds another 10 minutes of work for him and does nothing to help further the game. Once him and his minions murder this game, they will move to others. They only care about views dungivafuh about anyone or any game, just views

@SenzuDuck said:
Yea, I like it but think it should be stricter.

The sheer amount of people on this forum I've seen admit they derank to play in the "fun" ranks. Killers & Survivors alike.

The thing is it's "fun" because they're bullying either side and it's stupid af.

But this happens in any PvP game. If you couldn't derank here as easily, they would just wait for a sale and buy a new copy of the game. The skilled players won't need the Perk slots to bully new players.

Hell, I'm surprised Behavior didn't make buying a second or third account more needed. Plus the extra DLC purchases for the associated characters. And those who like to bully the low ranks, even Streamers, would spend the money, too. They always do.

The way Overwatch is set-up, people buy smurf accounts left and right on the 50% sales (or the recent $12 Humble Bundle subscription that included Overwatch) and use smurf accounts to bully lower ranked players enough that it's bitched about constantly on the forums.

And Blizzard just keeps bringing in the money and touting the "copies sold" like it means something. But the main point is: They weren't stupid with that set-up, and keep raking in the money and marketing the copies sold. When people hear "45 million copies sold," they usually think it's the popular thing and want to jump in, too. Never mind that it isn't actually "45 million unique players."

It's a good thing. 15 is the new 20. Rank 20-16 is like preschool and kindergarten. 15 is elementary school. 14-10 is middle school. 9-5 is high school and 4-1 is college.

This was a bad idea.

New players to the game experience long queues because the amount of other players still "trapped" below rank 15 is tiny. Anyone that breaks it will forever be outside of it. After a 3-4 month break, it took me a ton of 15-30 minute queues from ~rank 18 or 17 to get to 15 and back to instant queues, since the system change happened during the time I wasn't playing.

This is also bad for better players, since you're now forced to grind with people that should've decayed and gotten rusty, or never should've even left the lowest ranks while learning the game.

A third notion of why this is bad is that the metric for ranks are useless, and rank itself is arbitrary and only a sign of mild attrition on behalf of the player. I've gotten idiots in rank 1 a ton, and Emblem ensures that they never down rank.

Even worse so is that there's still no incentive to even rank up. What is there at rank 1? SWF hit squads for survivors, where the RNG on your Ruin location and the map loop RNG are the most important factors, and way more important than your skill; and then survivors it's facing like 2 killers in the roster over and over, so if you're a random player it's worse than any experience F13 could've offered.

Don't care really

I wouldn't really mind about being unable to de-rank past 15 if I didn't wanna try out other killers every once in a while. Really, I'm pretty good when playing the Hag or the Spirit but I totally suck at... pretty much all other killers I wish I could try them out on higher ranks because with those killers I'm just as much of a noob as a rank 20 killer... So that's pretty sad for me, personally, especially since I was trying to get the Platinum trophy.