New Series pass...

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

So? you still got the player population, the rest is mostly a community problem.

...for a Season to be more than an initial farce it needs player retention to be successful. Having the player population for 2-3 weeks out of maybe 8-9 is not a good thing.

This is done by incentivising players of all skill levels to continue either by improving the rewards of individual skill tiers (bronze, silver, gold, plat, etc) with a reward that is unique to Ranked (i.e. a currency that isn't trophy crystals), which enables many skill tiers to continue playing rather than dying off due to lack of incentivisation.

Like come on Towa, you can't be "this" ignorant about what the mode needs from the developer's side to stay successful? You are saying it is a community problem - we are literally organising times for everyone to queue up and have hosted events in the past to encourage queue pops.