Is Crystaline Conflict Dead?

I've enjoyed ranked (for the most part) CC ever since it came out but now with Season 2 being relatively brand new, here I sit in a 45 minute queue on a weekend. The same was true yesterday evening for me. I highly doubt there are that many MCH queuing at the same time to cause this. What's everyone else's experience with this?

I guess it was sort of inevitable. I had a feeling this would happen for s2 because

1. Ranked play rewards arent enticing enough/incentivise players to not play for certain rewards
2. No series pass for s2 meaning no artificial fomo
3. Most people are finished with garo

And so what you see now is the "natural" playercount, which is a small number of incredibly dedicated players, much like the feast. I would expect the playercount to skyrocket in s3 when the new series pass comes out, and then die again for s4 etc.

Why play when the job changes are marginal and incorrect, the maps are unbalanced and few, the match making is abysmal and the rewards are unchanged and unworthy.

Because we didn’t get all the frames so most are purposefully down ranking to get the Diamond frame when this season is over. So many not queuing for ranked. Casual is hot though. That’s where everyone is since won’t play ranked because they don’t want the same crystal frame again.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

Because we didn’t get all the frames so most are purposefully down ranking to get the Diamond frame when this season is over. So many not queuing for ranked. Casual is hot though. That’s where everyone is since won’t play ranked because they don’t want the same crystal frame again.

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imagine killing 5 seasons (if you first frame is crystal) to derank to get all the frames, square should just stop making pvp and spend the resources elsewhere

I just tried to do some queuing on Chaos DC and it didnt seem too bad. Certainly slower than it was before, like 5ish min per queue

More so, that you basically match with the 10-15 people that left to play the ranked.

Queues have been okay with me, but yeah the pool of people I am playing with is a bit of a bore. A lot of my favourite rivals have yet to rank back up. :(

It's dead as a rotting corpse, trying to rank is like hell to endure, when there are only 10-15 player only who actually bother doing ranked, and every match it's roll a dice chance, of mixing these players in both teams, now go fight good luck.

On EU Light it pops from afternoon till midnight almost non stop..

I have no problems finding ranked queues.
Now if only I had any skill...

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Originally Posted by Temoki

I've enjoyed ranked (for the most part) CC ever since it came out but now with Season 2 being relatively brand new, here I sit in a 45 minute queue on a weekend. The same was true yesterday evening for me. I highly doubt there are that many MCH queuing at the same time to cause this. What's everyone else's experience with this?

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Direct answer? No. But the lack of new rewards and the fact that you can't participate in ranked if you want a different set of plates has meant that people largely aren't participating this season like they were last season.

I would expect even-numbered seasons to be pretty dead in the water if they don't change how rewards etc work in 6.2. But fortunately, participation rates are one of the simplest forms of objective data to accrue, so I'm sure SE is aware of this and will consider solutions to it.

My queues are pretty instant. I didn't even know anyone had a CC queue longer than 5minutes...

I dunno bout the other ranks, but crystal queue is still only about 2-3 minutes.

Depends on when you queue. It isn't bad when you're queueing at peak hours. But I to be honest, I haven't been playing since I'm just not having fun with Warrior that has little to no defense and the how high damage and bursty CC is. Coupled with occassional glitches where purify doesn't work, and I'm ready to call it quits... =/

I farmed my first mount in the last week in 2 days in normal. I ain't touching ranked cause there is literally no need for me to do that.

I just do my WHM thingy in normal where there is no stress only waiting on the statistics to kick in for your win streak. As far as I have seen you lose around 4-5 then get an almost 10 game streak and go back to lose again. I imagine this is some sort of embedded balancing, which I don't mind cause once you understand it, then it's very easy to mentally prepare for it. No rank, no stress, still getting the rewards. :)

I don't really personally know why people played ranked, is there some cool mount for it or something?

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Originally Posted by TheTyrant

imagine killing 5 seasons (if you first frame is crystal) to derank to get all the frames, square should just stop making pvp and spend the resources elsewhere

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They should just give us every frame for each tier we passed.

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Originally Posted by Shuuli

I farmed my first mount in the last week in 2 days in normal. I ain't touching ranked cause there is literally no need for me to do that.

I just do my WHM thingy in normal where there is no stress only waiting on the statistics to kick in for your win streak. As far as I have seen you lose around 4-5 then get an almost 10 game streak and go back to lose again. I imagine this is some sort of embedded balancing, which I don't mind cause once you understand it, then it's very easy to mentally prepare for it. No rank, no stress, still getting the rewards. :)

I don't really personally know why people played ranked, is there some cool mount for it or something?

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Once you get high enough, you tend to get better games on average. By time I hit 3000, it was fairly rare for me to get games where there were people that were just clueless or not even trying to win. People would still make mistakes or be playing a class that they obviously don't know well, but it was rare that people would just be completely ignoring the crystal, running in 1 by 1 like lemmings, etc.

I haven't had any issues so far in Cc. I'm enjoying it, more than Front Lines that's for sure. maybe it is because of the times you're trying to go in like someone said? Good luck! Hope the queues get better for you though!

My DC (Chaos, EU) is still alive during certain hours a day (Crystal Ranked). Sadly, I am not available during those hours. Any Chaos player can correct me tho.

I remember at the start of season 1, Crystal rank queues were instant for almost the whole day.

So yeah, if we compare the current CC queue to Season 1, it was better before, but that's normal given how lacking the rewards are (at least compared to The Feast). Everyone has obtained their Garo mounts, their desired Hellhound weapons & frames (I like the Diamond frame more than Crystal).

I feel like if they keep ignoring crucial fundamental issues such as Leaderboard Moderation, CC will die, at least the competitive side of it.

But just like the Feast had its core community keeping it alive in some way for 20 seasons, I assume CC will have its own, too.