Make Augmented Hellhound obtainable through Trophy Crystals

[Towa-Musa]

Bots,wintraders and cheaters that you think plague the queues should be dealt with in game moderation, not removing rewards for those dedicated, stop enabling Square to do even less with their game.
You don't even need top 100 to get the shiny new stuff, You don't even need crystal if you are patient.
Now that players don't need top 100 for the stuff, people want the bar even lower making it obtainable by AFKing in a daily frontline match. Absurd.
God forbid an MMO have any kind of aspirational content or unique rewards for people who actually put the effort in and actually enjoy playing the game.
If you don't think the rewards are worth the effort you don't have to put the effort in but that doesn't mean you should be given the stuff just for logging in.

I say don't remove them from ranked but make it available to the crystal shop for like 20k crystals per item, if something is not 100% locked behind a mode the majority hates, people will feel less inclined to cheat and will instead just grind the crystals out.

[kayll]

I say don't remove them from ranked but make it available to the crystal shop for like 20k crystals per item, if something is not 100% locked behind a mode the majority hates, people will feel less inclined to cheat and will instead just grind the crystals out.

You are still putting the blame on the players and suggesting a band-aid fix for the supposed problems of cheaters running rampant in the system.
Also find it interesting that so many players can detect these elusive cheaters and post about it on the forums and some how Square cannot with their own game.
And yet these same players are also unable to even reach diamond/crystal yet are so SO certain that cheaters are in every ranked CC match.

I'm sure if Square did implement an anti-cheat, the goal post would just be moved again, just like the complaints about "why does top 100 get unique stuff" has now moved to "why does ranked get any unique stuff".

[Towa-Musa]

You are still putting the blame on the players and suggesting a band-aid fix for the supposed problems of cheaters running rampant in the system.
Also find it interesting that so many players can detect these elusive cheaters and post about it on the forums and some how Square cannot with their own game.
And yet these same players are also unable to even reach diamond/crystal yet are so SO certain that cheaters are in every ranked CC match.

I'm sure if Square did implement an anti-cheat, the goal post would just be moved again, just like the complaints about "why does top 100 get unique stuff" has now moved to "why does ranked get any unique stuff".

if you cheat in any fashion at the end of the day you are still a cheater no? not to mention if moderation was better at their job there would be less of a problem, people report cheaters all the time its just nothing is done about it and untill they fix their moderation issue my suggestion is a good enough stop gap so everybody can get what they want and get out without frothing at the mouth because a ranked mode is poorly moderated.

[kayll]

if you cheat in any fashion at the end of the day you are still a cheater no? not to mention if moderation was better at their job there would be less of a problem, people report cheaters all the time its just nothing is done about it and untill they fix their moderation issue my suggestion is a good enough stop gap so everybody can get what they want and get out without frothing at the mouth because a ranked mode is poorly moderated.

Obviously cheaters are cheaters.. if they ever cared to look into reports for PVP they probably don't take most reports seriously because people just report anyone that is better than them.
Anyways the solution isn't to make players better at reporting cheaters but to have systems in place to detect them.
All this is pointless anyway because I seriously doubt there are as many cheaters as some in this forum like to suggest.

Your suggested "stop gap" is to remove what little incentive there is to do ranked in the first place.
You don't care about ranked so you don't care about it dying so I guess its hard for you to comprehend other people might want to continue playing ranked and the player count for it is already lacking so your solution is to spit in their face so that you can have shiny things.
You say "everyone" in an altruistic way when it reality its just you wanting stuff other people have and you don't.

[Towa-Musa]

"everyone" in an altruistic way when it reality its just you wanting stuff other people have and you don't.

you honestly think i want the ranked glow weapons?
No thanks i prefer the relic weapon glows all day everyday.
so long as we can just buy the non glows idgaf really anymore.

also, if you need incentive to play a mode that is being dominated by a literal carbon copy without the headache....
Thats a you problem. you're just mad that people don't wanna play the mode you like.

also there are cheaters, you just don't know what to look for and neither do the mods... also anti cheat wont do anything against win-traders which are the biggest offenders lol