New PvP rewards and lack of players.

[Gospel]

What is going on with the ques? I mean I get that a new patch just came out, but for the past two days I've tried to que for ranked I just ended up sitting in a 5 hour que before giving up. Same thing happened today only this was for 6. Are people just not queing anymore or is this something to do with how they changed matchmaking? Kinda bummed cause I had some time off to play. You'd think you could get at least one match?

[Mirch]

What is going on with the ques? I mean I get that a new patch just came out, but for the past two days I've tried to que for ranked I just ended up sitting in a 5 hour que before giving up. Same thing happened today only this was for 6. Are people just not queing anymore or is this something to do with how they changed matchmaking? Kinda bummed cause I had some time off to play. You'd think you could get at least one match?

If u read the first replies on the thread u will see all the reasons why ur queues are long

[Stormfur]

I dunno... those weapons look pretty cool. Especially the monk Freddy Kreuger-esque ones.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

It's late in this season. Most players are either stopping to preserve their spot on the leaderboard, or if you're lower ranked, players at that same rank are fewer.

There's also both 4v4 Training and cross server custom matches, which has proven to be quite enjoyable. Everything we enjoy about the Feast, and WITH chat! (Customs, not Training). In all honesty, I'd much rather play those than ranked as it is now.

[Marveth]

It's just natural that queues get longer since they tightened the matchmaking criteria. I'm not sure how this could be a surprise to anyone.

[ZanzhizExaverion]

They need to release the rewards the day the season comes out so people ACTUALLY PLAY.

[Etrius]

Unfortunately the only way to do it is if you queue in the first week of each season.

[Shirolumi]

On Elemental the queues were very active the first 2 months. That more than enough IMO. Would I like it to keep being instant pops? Of course. But we all need to take a break sometime.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

It doesn't help that, unless there's some major change or addition that calls for it, there's usually no preseason, and the next one begins as soon as the previous one ends. So without rank decay, and for the sake of not risking their spot or burning out, many players find what they feel is a comfortable stopping point during the season, and leave it at that.

[internalconstrife]

Gotsa agree with lumi, its been active for us in elemental up to the point of 4.1 . The problem here imo though has more to do that they decide to implement drastic changes to the match making and class changes right smack in the middle-late season. Sure these changes are nice but why would you implement them this late? shouldn't this be done in the preseason or near the start of the season? combining it with patch 4.1 makes absolutely no sense in the competitive field. People are already used to the +2/-2 ranks and the balance/unbalance of the classes. Forcing such a drastic change only makes people weary and once they see the lengthened queue times this late in the season, most give up and your left with the same people playing preventing a competitive climb. The lack of a decay system also enforces this.

If we started off with these changes, we would still be relatively active by now.