New matchmaking system is a failure

[Februs]

Trying to learn your class is a ranked environment is selfish and only hurting your team's rating as you are using their time to learn your class.

I get what you're saying here, but that's not exactly fair to new players. Telling a new player that they're not allowed to queue into Feast because they're still learning their class is basically the same thing as telling them they're simply not allowed to play that game mode, ever, because they'll never have enough PvP experience to play it without actually playing it. That's a pretty selfish attitude in itself, because it prioritizes the enjoyment and entitlement of experienced players over new ones who have just as much a right to be there as anyone else.

Now, I do agree that throwing them in fresh is obviously a bad idea, but at the moment we don't really have another option. I mean, where are the new players supposed to go to learn? Front Lines? They'll be lucky to get into one match a day, and they'll be playing a game mode that is completely different from the intensity of Feast. I can almost guarantee that if you take a player who's PvP experience is exclusive to Front Lines and dropped them in Feast, they'd be no better off than someone who is completely fresh at PvP. The same goes for 8v8 Feast, which is just as dead.

In the end, this is a problem for SE to fix. They seriously need to buckle down and figure out a way to ease the damn learning curve on new players. A pre-season would have been a hell of a good start. A pre-season which had Preliminary/Season qualifier requirements would have been even better. Then there's the practice mode that everyone was asking for in season one ... SE has options, for sure. They just need to explore which of those options would be best, instead of letting the PvP community spit venom at each other because of unfortunate match ups.