Feedback: Crystalline Conflict (Ranked)

[Valence]

As I see it, casual should be a place for people to learn the mode, try new jobs or just play for fun without pressures, and it should give little to no rewards both in terms of currencies and series exp.

You'll just kill casual altogether with that kind of changes. It may pop occasionally with enough players wanting to try out a new job at the same time, and it may actually at best turn into a hidden sweaty mode where all the top rankers congregate to try out other jobs (like they do already). Actual casual players don't queue into the mode to try new jobs, they queue to farm their series xp and/or have fun. They also do not want to deal with the stress of ranked. If you remove them the series reward, you'll essentially be sending them the message that CC isn't for them and they should queue instead exclusively for FLs which rewards similarly anyway.

[ValG]

You'll just kill casual altogether with that kind of changes.

Well, if I have to choose between keeping the mode alive for the people who only care about getting easy rewards and keeping it healthy for the people who care about the mode itself... I'd rather keep ranked.

But even if casual is not touched at all, all the ranked stuff I mentioned can still be done to make it more appealing.

[Daralii]

Well, if I have to choose between keeping the mode alive for the people who only care about getting easy rewards and keeping it healthy for the people who care about the mode itself... I'd rather keep ranked.

But even if casual is not touched at all, all the ranked stuff I mentioned can still be done to make it more appealing.

I don't see how removing the gateway mode would keep ranked alive. Playing casual matches and thinking "Hmm, I wonder what ranked is like" is almost a universal constant in PvP regardless of game. People getting bored and leaving(the game or the mode) is inevitable, so there needs to be something to get fresh blood in.