Quote Originally Posted by HojoMeiwah View Post
Better rewards is an easy and good solution, but we've had a ton of threads begging for things like a crystal shop that lets us buy old Top 100 gear or old Crystal Pass sets. It's basically low hanging fruit at this point.
Instead, I suggest an easy to apply solution that requires little effort to actually apply, and makes queues more viable for lower ranked players.

Metal tiers are basically the same skill level, with little variance between them. You're more likely to get hardstuck due to a lack of games popping than you are actually by you being tested by higher ranked players. There IS no point to low skill tiers now, because the only pops in Gold or below are artificial events propped up by PvP communities. Low ranks are already fighting Crystals in both unranked and low-tier ranked during planned queue syncs.

Besides, that player experience is already rough in another place. Starting at Diamond 5, you unironically just get Top 100 players in your games non-stop. The gulf of skill there is so massive, that I find the difference between a perpetual plat 4 and a fresh bronze kind of laughable. I think these players would prefer to have the chance to play at all, rather then wait 45 minutes for a wash that already is 50% alts.
As much as I understand your point, I don't want them to implement this band-aid for the simple reason that the moment they apply this band-aid, they basically see the problem as fixed and will do absolutely nothing else about it. I enjoy Ranked as much as the next person in there, but I am more concerned with long-term solutions and not short-term bandaids that will only treat the symptom, not the root of the problem.