Begginer coming from chess
Edit: There is no cap of 20 rated games per week anymore.
This probably gets posted a lot, but not talking about it is even worse.
I started playing 3 days ago and I’ve played 120 or something games with a 70% winrate. I tend to get addicted to these types of games.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like the rank system is based only on how many games you play a week, while completely disregarding winrate, which is probably the dumbest thing I have seen in my entire life. Seriously, it’s almost funny how dumb this rank system is. If I genuinely tried to make something bad, it would probably come out better than this.
Chess.c*m has a similar rank system, and it’s obviously just there to bloat the site. Everyone knows it’s pointless. But at least there I can forget about it and focus on my elo rating. GeoGuessr seems to have patched every way for me to find out my elo. Why the fuck would you do that?
Is there any logic to getting a higher rank? Is your rank just proof you play more games? Can I lose 9/10 games and get to Gold if I play a thousand games a week? Does the 20 games cap still exist? (I don’t think it does.) Who is making these decisions? Why do I have to wait weeks to climb if I’m beating 70% of people in my rank?
Am I making climbing harder for myself by getting a higher hidden elo and therefore going against stronger opponents, meaning losing more games, meaning I have to play more games to get double promotion?
In chess.c*m or lichess I could probably get to 2000 rating from a new account in a few hours, and that is a good thing.
Edit: People seem to not care that the system sucks at gold and below.
Seems weird you have to become a "master" to actually start playing competitive and even weirder that you can become a "master" by spamming infinite games at 1% win rate.