Quote Originally Posted by Zojha View Post
you are assuming the mode is supposed to be fun for people. If that was the case, we could scratch the rewards, because rewards are always compensation for doing something you don't enjoy.
That's not necessarily true, though.

Rewards certainly can be a compensation for doing something you don't enjoy (such as a Christmas bonus at work), but it's not always the case. They hand out rewards in sporting events all the time, but the participants wouldn't be there in the first place if they didn't enjoy the sport. Rewards are intended to be a pat on the back for a good performance, not a compensation for doing something they hated every minute of. The same can be said here.

In Feast, we get a ugly fancy looking PvP glamour set. The only reward is literally just a status symbol within the PvP community. It serves no purpose anywhere else in the game. That kind of a reward isn't really all that much of a compensation for anyone who hates PvP, so why bother? If it's a monetary reward, or a reward they could use anywhere else in the game, then it would be different, but it's just a glamour. If a glamour is all someone is after, then there are far easier, and better looking, ones that they could get their hands on without playing a game mode they hate. With that said, it follows that some people are there just for the fun of PvP and a competition -- no matter how warped of a competition it might be.

That said, I do agree that the ranking system in this game is a giant brainfart, but I don't believe it's the brainfart of someone who has a great passion for ranked PvP. I think it's the other way around. If SE had any passion for ranked PvP at all, then they would of ensured we had a matchmaking system that worked, rather than one that punishes players who make the mistake of actually playing.