What would make you queue? (long post)

[SuperZay]

I'd que every day if only my highest rating earned during any point of the season was considered for the final rewards. Then I'd have nothing to lose by queing more with much to gain like better rating.

The game will punish me for losing a few matches by kicking from Top 100 and voiding me of any rewards like in S1 and S2 (except lolsilverjewelry), and I don't want to repeat that.

[Meero]

I'd que every day if only my highest rating earned during any point of the season was considered for the final rewards. Then I'd have nothing to lose by queing more with much to gain like better rating.

The game will punish me for losing a few matches by kicking from Top 100 and voiding me of any rewards like in S1 and S2 (except lolsilverjewelry), and I don't want to repeat that.

Something interesting you can do is have 2 characters on the same data center, and then you can always play on the lowest one then switch—that way one of your characters is the highest you've been.

[SuperZay]

Something interesting you can do is have 2 characters on the same data center, and then you can always play on the lowest one then switch—that way one of your characters is the highest you've been.

I prefer to keep everything on one, main character unless the rewards will be shared between alts too.

[Zojha]

I'd que every day if only my highest rating earned during any point of the season was considered for the final rewards. Then I'd have nothing to lose by queing more with much to gain like better rating.

This is pretty much the solution if you do not want to change anything else.

Rating decay is inefficient because the incentive to play as little as the system allows remains intact and you'd have to make completely ridiculous minimum play demands that would put proper e-sports to shame for it to make a noteworthy dent in activity. And depending your potential rating loss over those game it might well be the better option to just let it decay than take the gamble.

For ranked Feast, the stagnation is simply caused by the reward structure. That's easy to fix. For PvP as a whole, it's a lot more complicated, but I'll spare you the rambling about that - I've said everything that can be said about that by now.