Feast seasons should start with the main patches

[Aviars]

I think this needs to happen. I'm not really happy with how there is a +6 week dead period by the end of the season for Feast because the patch essentially kills it. There are a number of reasons why I think this is a good idea:

1. If they ended and started the Feast seasons with the major patches then the fact that rating has been reset will actually encourage people to start playing after they blasted through new content.

2. Since rating is reset, people wouldn't be scared of losing their rating during a period that may or may not have any ques at all with the previous system.

3. There wouldn't be such a long period of Feast being completely dead or just barely alive(Primal).

4. The smaller patches won't hit The Feast as hard because they usually come out within 5-6 weeks during a time where ratings still haven't settled. And those patches generally don't have that much content added anyway to distract people.

The best way to get people to que during these periods is to remove risk and the best way to do it is just to end the season and wipe out people's rating. There should be no reason for a season to end weeks before it officially ends.

This may not be possible for this expansion, but it is something to think about for the next one.

Thanks for reading.

[TiramisuMacaron]

I'd rather them being back the notion of a preseason. Have x.y0 patches be preseason and have x.y5 patches be the season.

Doesn't seem like they are making 4v4 unranked, it would be a nice compromise.

[Lacross]

I completly agree,

I dont pvp alot, but its exactly the same on aether where nobody in the top 20 pretty much moved or gained any rating in the last weeks. It seems different in group Qs where the top 2 keep climbing, not even sure how.

[Februs]

I'd rather them being back the notion of a preseason. Have x.y0 patches be preseason and have x.y5 patches be the season.

Doesn't seem like they are making 4v4 unranked, it would be a nice compromise.

Totally agree.

I'm okay with ending the season on a major patch, because the massive dump of new content is a sure fire way to kill the queues for Feast. That said, instead of starting each new season of Feast on a major patch, I'd rather see the major patch act as a pre-season start up, followed by the official season in the immediate following patch. So, it would go Major Patch = Pre-season > Off-Patch = official season start >>>> Major Patch = end of season.

Of course, all of this comes second to them making some much needed adjustments to the matchmaking system. I'd much rather see them address those issues before anything else.