Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
As someone that did not cheat (yes, haha, anyone can say this, believe it at your own choice) and had to climb a fair bit and improve at a pace to keep up with my peers... there were more people playing legit than cheating when in the Top 100.

The main reason why it was "this easy" for me was because everyone kept saying "its full of cheaters, you dont have a chance" without trying - people gave up before starting. If a lot more players would've competed, the magnitude of cheating and wintrading would have been much lesser by virtue of them making out a smaller percentage of the total player pool.

Wintrading would also become significantly harder to pull off consistently because of frequency of players interrupting their matchmaking shenanigans.

It's frankly a self-inflicted problem.
Ye well this isn't just people's fault. This is also Squares fault for creating such bad system and bad gameplay. Nobody liked Feast as it was unbalanced mess and certain classes were dominating. Specially feast teams that massively wintraded each other and got banned for it. CC players still even today get banned for wintrading It's happening always, trolls, cheaters that use plugins to get easier wins, friends in queue,etc.

Smaller population makes sure that wintrading is possible and you will also be a target of someone who had a bad day for entire day since you can't avoid them in queue. It's very fun to play pvp when there's only 10-20 same people over and over again kek.