Yes you should, but you should use the correct terms for what has actually happened else you'll look like you're just starting crap
Anyway I've passed this onto TPC just in case they weren't aware
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Pokemon Sword & Shield: Master Ball Tier Players in ranked battles were banned with ratings erased [Update: Now Fixed]
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Anyway I've passed this onto TPC just in case they weren't aware
they effectively are though. Again this is ultimately a semantic arguement, because the end result on my end as a player isn't really all that different either way if they accidentally caused a blanket ban or this is just the result of some other issue
Aren't ranked battles also tied to VGC? I can't see how this is overblown if a simple maitenance can wipe the boards, imagine if this happened in May or June.
what the fuck is this post?
are they banned or there was an issue on their maintenance?
no, the current ranked rules aren't even the same as vgc rules
What would you like to discuss? This sucks and I hope they fix it as soon as possible.
Seems it's just a glitch. I don't know why they would ban their best players, lol
Yeah it's very semantic so I'll acquiescence in favor of the people actually affected by what is, however you name it, a supremely annoying situation.
How dare people be upset a major feature of the game has stopped working for them and that a rank they spent a lot of time and effort obtaining might be completely wiped even after the fix occurs?
First off, the title is pretty clear that this affects only people in a certain rank, so by default "everyone" won't be suffering.
Second, are we at the point where we can't have the basic, minimal competence in expressing empathy by saying "yeah, that does suck for them and that is a problem" just because it may not personally affect you?
Well considering it is based on the premise that they're banned when they haven't been. It's part of the antagonism that's happening regarding Pokémon right now.
Ok, thanks. In case ranked takes quite a good amount of time and energy to climb once the competitive crowd gets into the mix, so even then its more then slightly annoying to see happen and I doubt they will be able to restore the previous ranks.
It comes off very as a very first world privileged type of post. People should take a small break from Pokémon until it's fixed. No one is banned here.
What? I am so confused, why the hostility?
People are sharing an experience and trying to discover why this is happening. The experience seems to indicate they have been banned, likely erroneously. We don't know what is happening specifically or why.
Whether it was an accidental ban or some other bug, the end result is identical. The exact system through which this occured is literally irrelevant and obviously nobody thinks this was done intentionally
"But this is a particularly stunning display of incompetence."
You guys have got to chill out on this attitude. This is likely a bug or glitch or something unintentional. Games are made by people and people make mistakes. Give them a minute to try and fix it.
You guys have got to chill out on this attitude. This is likely a bug or glitch or something unintentional. Games are made by people and people make mistakes. Give them a minute to try and fix it.
i'm not sure it really matters when the end result is people not being able to play their game. it is weird that you're more bothered by this instead of people being locked out of a mode.
I mean it wouldn't be incompetence if it was something they intended to do. The fact that a routine maintenance has led to such an annoying accident is what we're upset about. No sane person thinks gamefreak is doing this on purpose, that's not the point and trying to frame it like that just feels like deflecting the issue
God damn this thread is scary.
I hope this is just a glitch and that it gets fixed for you soon OP. I would be pretty bummed as well if I had all that progress halted.
I hope this is just a glitch and that it gets fixed for you soon OP. I would be pretty bummed as well if I had all that progress halted.
Probably because I'm a programmer and know how this stuff can easily happen.
Like I said, I've passed it onto TPCi so hopefully it can be resolved
I think the issue is certain people in the fan base freaking out, ready with stakes and to drop the entire series over a bug during maintenance. People are so damn privileged in the gaming community and expect everything to work immediately, and if something doesn't, it was done with malicious intent and it's anti consumer.
This shit is tiring and I have no problem with people calling it out.
Because of the current ire towards Game Freak for certain things
because the end result is literally identical regardless of the exact system that's causing this error
please point me towards a single person in this thread who has suggested this wasn't just gamefreak fucking up and was done on purpose?
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Something I want to be clear about here that I guess people didn't get from the OP: The main reason the competitive fanbase is pissed is because of the apparent erasing of ratings. If they end up rolling it back and everything is fixed, then that'd be wonderful, and this can just be a funny story we talk about in years to come in the competitive community. If they don't fix it though, thats dozens of hours wasted for the competitive community.
It's more than just building a team, competitive Pokemon is tough and rewarding just from the laddering alone. If all that time is wasted because of a server screw up, and the ratings cant be restored, then that's a major blow to the trust of laddering in my opinion. Whose to say next season, all my hard work planning out teams and competing for a higher ranking won't be wasted because of another screw up? If the ranking system isn't stable, what's the point of even playing the competitive modes online?
Again, if Gamefreak rolls back this issue and fixes this, I'm more than happy to contact a mod to close this thread, because it won't be needed anymore. I have no intention on dragging gamefreak / Nintendo / TPC / whoever through the mud, nor do I have some sort of agenda against the game. In fact, I've been enjoying the competitive aspects of the game a lot until this happened! But, I still think this is a piece of news that's worth highlighting, and I posted it because it relates to one of my passions.
It's more than just building a team, competitive Pokemon is tough and rewarding just from the laddering alone. If all that time is wasted because of a server screw up, and the ratings cant be restored, then that's a major blow to the trust of laddering in my opinion. Whose to say next season, all my hard work planning out teams and competing for a higher ranking won't be wasted because of another screw up? If the ranking system isn't stable, what's the point of even playing the competitive modes online?
Again, if Gamefreak rolls back this issue and fixes this, I'm more than happy to contact a mod to close this thread, because it won't be needed anymore. I have no intention on dragging gamefreak / Nintendo / TPC / whoever through the mud, nor do I have some sort of agenda against the game. In fact, I've been enjoying the competitive aspects of the game a lot until this happened! But, I still think this is a piece of news that's worth highlighting, and I posted it because it relates to one of my passions.
This isn't an issue of the servers being down. Most people can still play the game but people who were in Master Ball Tier cannot. The game is barring specific people from competing. This is commonly referred to as being banned.
Then you should be waiting until they react to the bug instead of making an exaggerated thread with the title "the latest controversy" where it's just a simple glitch, for now and nobody has gotten banned.
They can be upset, but it is a bug, it is not intendend. So this can't be describe as a controversy like the dexit.
Yeah I was corrected above, thanks though.
Personally I'm just straight up surprised that a backwards ass system of having ranked battled tied to a website all this time has so far been more reliable then just online through NSO.
No the current state would be similar, but also different if the wording differs from an actual ban message when compared to a general communication error. The End state of being banned, especially permanently banned, is entirely different from a current communication error.
Having differences Literally implies that they are not "literally identical "...
Plenty of major bugs are controversial in other games. Nobody is defending bugs in say, fallout 76. WHy should Pokemon be different?