It’s basically a rough division on where your skill level is placed. I vagulely recall it having to do with your win ratio (tier 7 = 70% win maybe). Anyway, Mike Z said he might make it either more lax or put a time cap on it before branching into other tiers. Until then, consider it your bragging right lol.
I just realized how lame tier 8 and 9 must be I hit top 10 on the leaderboards and I’m still tier 7 does that basically mean you cant play ranked AT ALL once you hit tier 8? seems kinda rediculous
Try tier 5 in japan region. I let it sit for 40 min and thought it i did it agaon i would get a game… so i exited and started again… and still no game!
We don’t have to change the overall system, we just have to make it search for people outside your own tier.
I said something about it a week ago - on PS3 we wrote the matchmaking, and we made a mistake in assuming there would be enough people at each ranking level. On 360 it’s done by MS. It’s harder than you think, since when we write it we can’t search everyone in the world at once, but since MS has matchmaking on the server side they can do that. It’s our top PS3 priority and will be addressed in the first patch on PS3, but complaining right now doesn’t change anything. >.<