Marvel Rivals Players Regret Complaining About The Mid-Season Rank Reset

Marvel Rivals hasn’t done much to upset its player base so far outside of laying off some of its developers out of nowhere. Gameplay-wise it is yet to put a foot wrong, although it came close when it announced plans to rollback people’s ranks. The immediate backlash to that announcement had NetEase walking back the decision within a matter of hours, and one week later, some players are starting to think their complaints might have been a little hasty.

Reddit user u/logsobolevinequality appears to have been among the first to admit that fighting back against the rank rollback might have been a mistake via a post on the r/marvelrivals subreddit. They admit that the developers are aware Rivals’ ranking system is inflationary and that to combat that, they want to roll back those ranks twice per season – once at the start, and then again midway through.

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However, NetEase’s want to please the Rivals’ playerbase won out over their rank inflation awareness and one week later, some of you are admitting a rank rollback might not have been all that bad. Simply put, some players now think higher ranks, specifically Grand Master, are too full and that some players don’t deserve to be there.

Marvel Rivals Players Are Starting To See The Benefit Of A Rank Rollback

Too Late Now, Though

Since you gain more points for winning than you drop for losing, rank progression in Marvel Rivals isn’t as simple as rising higher the more you win and dropping the more you lose. Not to mention Chrono Shields up to a certain rank which protect you from losing any points for a loss if you’re lucky enough to have one.

Even though a rank rollback would have dropped everyone down four ranks, since rank progression is more about time played than your win/loss record – to an extent – the realization after fighting back against the rollback is even though it would have required working back up the ranks, those higher ranks wouldn’t have been quite so inflated, at least not right away.

While some agree that they didn’t think through why exactly NetEase wanted to push a mid-season rank rollback, others believe the Rivals competitive system needs more than just a rank rollback to fix it. Ranks will always become inflated whether you roll players back or not, and the easiest fix suggested by players is a placement system similar to the ones used in other live service games.

It’s too late to go back now and the ranks almost certainly won’t be altered until the end of the current season. It will be interesting to see how widespread the regret is and if NetEase revisits a rank rollback during season two. Or if the suggested fixes, like placement matches, are ideas it seriously considers implementing in the future.

Third-Person Shooter

Action

Multiplayer

Released

December 6, 2024

ESRB

T For Teen // Violence

Developer(s)

NetEase Games

Publisher(s)

NetEase Games