Some people say they are meaningless others say they are be-all and end-all. What is your opinion?
Should they be an individual benchmark, like they are now, or open for the entire team to see?
I believe that having them hidden, as individual benchmark just feeds egos. I have three gold medals as DPS, “I’m not wrong, my team is.” While having them open they provide more useful information as to who is performing well and who isn’t. Of course, this could lead to a tirade of flaming towards a person underperforming, the reason that Blizzard chose not to, but in the current state in the game, would it lead to a net increase in flaming? I don’t think so. Games without toxicity are rare, only when curb-stomping opponents. A losing game is filled with flaming (according to my, and some friend’s experience in platinum/diamond). What is your take on this?
What else is there to check? No scoreboard, no idea what your teammates are good at, with them at least you can say “ok, got the golds for damage and eliminations again, I am doing something good” .
Thing about medals is people just go off blind trust and use them to start arguments. Like if someone wants someone to swap they’ll go. Oh i have gold healing on X off support, I have gold damage/elims on X tank, Oh I’m the only dps killing you guys better do something.
I just wish they showed us that so people don’t use them to start arguments.
And then you have the fact that medals don’t really matter in the bigger picture since its a teams game but it will make it smoother to see them.
So in short - a scoreboard would help. You can always reference your score to your teammates’ and your enemies’ .
Pretty much, yes. Playing a team game without being able to see your teams performance doesn’t work. There is no mechanic you can fall back on. Being able to see your team’s performance makes it easier to make effective switches.
