Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
I personally never asked for anything. i'm just befuddled by the need to have unique trophies or whatever. It stinks of fragile egos if that's the real motivation behind playing ranked.
I am glad you enjoy playing without desiring trophies of the like. However to call it "fragile egos" is a bit harsh when we are merely critical in your time invested vs what we reap and judging if it is worth trying hard in Ranked or if we can just stomp in Casual for essentially the same thing.

Obviously not reinventing the wheel here, Top 100 was meant for those who are considered "the best", which is difficult to *not* make it time-limited without essentially invalidating what the reward means as a status symbol after it is reobtainable. It is a painful system, but one that I think ensures high-level competition being taken serious.

Apart from that, I always wanted individual tiers (bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, crystal) to receive currency that is limited to Ranked only, so there is an actual reason to play Ranked over just grinding the Battle Pass after Lv30 endlessly. Something where even Bronze players can eventually work towards and/or have incentive to get better and into higher tiers.

Right now - we have neither, with a mode that is objectively easy to get into. And putting JP numbers aside, it clearly shows how it stagnates with every season of the same crap for the rest of the playerbase.

Plain in simple - Ranked needs incentive. If not Top 100, it needs Ranked-only currency with rewards befitting them. We can talk in circles around how we are supposed to play the mode for fun, honour or for the thrill of competition, but with nothing on the line it just feels like Casual with a different brush of paint and slimmer queues.