Honestly.... I would be completely livid if my rank was reset. I'm at S+ 38 and it would make me angry for it to be reset. Yes, I could probably make it back up to S+.... But why do I deserve to be punished? I never cheated and it seems highly unfair for Nintendo to punish us because some people are deciding to cheat. That's honestly an absurd notion. I have to agree with what someone said before. The people who savescummed their rank will fall naturally. If we store the ranks on the servers, there is no need for a rank reset. The people who cheated their way into a certain rank will fall naturally. There is absolutely no need to punish all of us for it.
Resetting our ranks would only anger the community and make lower ranks a complete hell for months on end. Has anyone even considered how this would affect the lower ranks? They wouldn't be able to play and would probably grow to hate the game if those of us at a higher rank and skill level were put back with them. It wouldn't be fair to the lower ranks nor would it be fair to us.
This is what I do not understand, and I do not mean to offend but I do not understand this idea of rank letter as some status symbol you have a right to keep. So why angry? Like to my knowledge, a lot of rank modes? reset every 2-4 months? I have no idea? that is why they call it seasons? There can be several reasons for this and they apply to splatoon:
Person gets to rank S because squads do not let them lose rank, this is to gain money, never plays random again. This leads to no true adjustment of dealing with randoms and how to work as a team with random people. They end up not being as skilled because practice.
Things change. Like back when the cap was A+99, I am sure it was hard to stay there because of other top skill people being there and keep playing to play to see if they keep A+99. But the game was different then, less maps I think? changes to weapons, nerfs, etc so A+ 99 then is not the same skill now. Also when S was new, I felt there was a much stronger gap then now, S rank people acting like A rank and A rank acting like S, they sotra merge.
Rank reset every once in a while means a higher chance of of people of same skill being in the letters, like people in S+ now (some) may be more like what is considered S kill 2 months from now but they still managed to keep the S+ because sometimes wins comes from finding a super S+ on their team.
I do not see "S+" as some status symbol as something I have a right to keep. I see it as "you are skilled as other players in S+ and you have fun playing with 7 other people with like skill as you" If there is huge skill gaps like I been seeing lately both in rank, rank during japeanse splatfest and now splatfest using your start from your rank, with massive skill gaps of the same letter, that only proves something is wrong with the system.
I do not see or hear (sorry I would not know cuz I do not track it) of people complaining of other ladder systems in saying it is unfair to reset everyone making it ruff on the true low rank players. If there was a true problem in doing this, they would not be using such systems still.
Somehow a person on youtube keeps regaining S then losing it on his own (since I guess you only need be lucky and have your team carry you for 3 matches?) so I have my doubts (like what is considered B skill now) will lose enough to fall back down there, if Nintendo simply took out the ability of gaining ranks in squads and letting savescum working.
In the end my issue is this, there shouldn't be massive skill gaps in the top ranks (A/S) so something needs to be done so closer skill gaps play each other. A rank letter should not be some kind of status you get to keep, A rank letter should reflect who you should be paired with.
Personally I like the idea of separate squad rank and maybe even one for each mode (I would like this) but i doono if it is truly good for the game or if people agree.
