Quote Originally Posted by anw View Post
FOMO is not a great concept for ranked, it promotes people playing just for rewards and while that sounds great in principal it does mean you have people who will play only to grind out a reward like you see even with the current battlepass. The purpose of ranked modes are generall the following:
-Aim for & achieve personal goals
-Grow as a player by learning from your mistakes
-Play on an even playing field with people at the same skill level with the same objectives
Games you should be able to count on being consistent and pushing you as a player to improve.

That does bring us onto player motivation, who is in the matches and bring us onto the meaty beast below:

This is the one that says it best and it said it 11 pages in. Not only is it against what's listed in the prohibited activities but it's an example of unsportsmanship like conduct.
Sandbagging, autopiloting, running it down. Whatever degree you want to look at or what you want to call it: it's lethargic behaviour and it goes against the spirit of PVP, you are aiding the enemy.
Thing is, people try harder if there is a carrot on the stick, you get people who care to win and care if they lose. If losing doesn't matter in Ranked, well no1cares, then why should they try to play super well? It is wishful thinking. You need consequences if you aren't playing well enough for the tier you are in, every other game does it too, it creates incentives to play well. And because everyone plays well, you won't be able to grind it by spamming matches as u suggested. And a frame kit for your portrait isn't really that big incentive to players.

Regarding TOS stuff, yeah try to find the guy who plays bad on purpose, try to convince the GM's that somebody is cheating. Often it took dozens if not over hundred reports until something happened a week or two later(not always before the reward was sent out by mogmail). People don't get caught automatically in this game, there is no anti cheat. Having ranked PvP and supervising it properly would take a lot of human resources. Its the question what road SE wants to go with PvP, they chose to release a fun not so tryhard mode which is fine too, but this won't work for Ranked. They treat their players a bit too much like babies the last years if you ask me.. A lot of things only get easier, while staying very grindy, it is a recipe for boredom.