What's everyone's ranked wait times?

[Osmond]

I know you really seem to cling to the idea that you were right about de-ranking killing ranked queues. That is not the case. Pretty much everyone that competes for Top 100 is quite happy about those changes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Crystal gamer from S3 that didn't think it was a good idea.

There is such a difference in skill between Crystal games and Diamond/Plat players. With that "dynamic" matchmaking that came at the same time, if you were Plat 1 and up, you'd pretty much be guaranteed to be in Crystal games anyway. So, that de-ranking that was supposed to make games competitive never did that. It barely had any impact on who plays with who. Crystal 0s just had a new rank, but were never gone from high-rank games.

Unless you think the very few people stuck in Plat 4 to 2, who could not get win streaks going long enough to go back up to Diamond and who got discouraged would have been the saviors of the Crystal rank queues ? I guess we'll never know.

The ranked player base is just too small and it looks like it got a lot smaller. Maybe even smaller than it's even been.

I know, just messing with ya, but that just one of the reasons. I know it was a going to be a quick decline on the content because it just reminds me of other competitive games in the market so it felt no different. The only ppl doing high tier ranking is going to be very niche in the long term, the dev team will have to concede on that fact and just add more gimmick content into casual. I don't think the rewards is going to bring ppl back into playing ranked even if they were to spruce up the plates for one. Also the mounts or gearsets won't be enough if you only just 1 of either in 1 series. If they were to add more mounts or gearsets into the "mission pass" exclusively to ranked match it won't entice ppl to play ranked more.

I really don't have any solutions for them to bring ppl back into rank other than giving players an option to party up and que instead of straight solo que. That might(?) restore the ques(?)....maybe?