Loss Streak Changes (Destiny)

by Robot Chickens, Thursday, June 28, 2018, 15:08 (2417 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by Robot Chickens, Thursday, June 28, 2018, 15:22

Consecutive losses will decrease the Rank Points lost instead of increasing

Wtf.

Their change makes no sense. The more you lose the LESS you are penalized?! I expected there to just be no loss streak at all, but this creates the bizarre situation in which winning can hurt you.

LLW - You lose fewer points on your second loss than your first.
LWL - You lose full points on both losses. You were better off losing the games back to back!

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?! Winning a game should NEVER hurt you!

Your examples don't factor into real world scenarios because they assume you have the ability to see the future and control it. It also assumes you would ever want to throw a game. It is never a negative to win a game. Lets assume you are in round one and you lose. If you know you're going to play two more games you should always play to win the next two games. You would only throw a game if you knew you were guaranteed to lose one and had a guaranteed win at the same time.

Starting from a L, you have a couple outcomes, but it's always better to try and win.

LW is better than LL

Would you ever, at that point, decide to throw the third game? Of course not. A win in either situation is still better.

LWW is better than LWL

and

LLW is better than LLL

Now, in retrospect you could say you get different ranking outcomes for LWL and LLW, but in the moment to moment decisions of the world, you have no reason to think that you should have thrown a game. Another critique is that a person's rank isn't really super meaningful because similar records aren't weighted the same way. However, that only matters if you're comparing yourself to other players.