The Overwatch 2 community recently gathered in large numbers over on Reddit to express their widely-agreed-upon disdain for the Competitive Progress screen, which tracks player progress toward their next rank adjustment, only showing their wins and not their losses.
Like many online game ranking systems these days, Overwatch 2 structures players into different tiers, like Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and so on, with an additional 5 to 1 numerical ranking inside each tier. As players play Competitive Play games, their rank changes and adjusts, mostly based on their win rate. After 5 wins or 15 losses/ties, your rank will change depending on your performance.
However, the Competitive Progress page that shows you your match history in ranked play only displays your wins, it does not display your losses, so, unless you manually track them yourself, you cannot know how many losses away you are from Overwatch readjusting your rank.
One user, replying to the original post, specified that you can look at your overall game history and see your last ten games by going to Career Profile, History, and then Game Reports. However, the original poster made the apt counterpoint that if you play multiple game modes outside competitive play, then your last ten games won’t tell you much. Not to mention that a stretch of Competitive games can extend to almost twenty before your rank readjusts.
Most commenters had the same general theory, that Blizzard purposefully hides the losses so that players won’t feel discouraged and stop playing, as engagement is the number one priority for free-to-play titles like Overwatch 2. There’s certainly some logic to that, as seeing the losses may hinder motivation, but, ultimately, the losses themselves are probably a much more relevant demoralizing factor.
Some players echoed that sentiment, explaining how they’d sometimes gotten their five wins but then went down in rank (likely due to having much more than five losses) and thus felt unpleasant all the same, even if they didn’t see the losses. Either way, most agree that, since a certain amount of losses also resets your Competitive Progress record and adjusts your rank, players should have the option to see them.
