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Rob 123456 wrote: ↑21 December 2023, 20:51 What happened to the ranking system? I've played Hanabi and Bandido today and there is no change in ranking anymore. This is highly puzzling especially for a game like Hanabi. Are cooperative games no longer considered to be worth ranking?

If it's some kind of bot blocking then it's a very cheap effort at it that will discourage actual players.

Rob 123456 wrote: ↑14 July 2025, 16:45 That post doesn't explain it though. The rank in the cooperative games are fixed.

→ Cooperative play and non competitive game
For cooperative games such as Hanabi, The Crew, or Just One, competition is already disabled. However, some players were too focused on the ELO, which led to unnecessary competitiveness in an environment which should instead incentivize cooperation.
For such games, we decided to hide the ELO value of each player and only display their current rank, from Beginner to Master.
This rank is based on existing win / loss games from the underlying ELO system. This way, you will not lose your rank with this change. For some games where chapters or scenarios are played, the more successful chapter will get you to the next rank faster, but you will not know how far from the next rank you could be at a given time.
This also applies to games where competition is disabled such as Chess.