Why Allow Feast Seasons To Stagnate?

[Chevronone]

::Applies to Solo 4v4::

This is the 3rd time you've allowed this farce. Why even bother to give Feast seasons such a long window when they literally die a little after one month of launch? It's just frivolous and a little naive to think that giving this much time will allow for a "fair" competition where those who wish to participate can access this mode and the chance to succeed is made available during the advertised season length. Contrary to what I imagine you'd hope would be a robust and healthy competitive season, queues sit inactive far longer than they are active once the Top 100 has been solidified. This isn't an attack on any of the community, they are just simply utilizing a system you created.

So, my question is, why allow so much time per Season? Why force those who want to actually compete to have to wait months before another shot?

[TiramisuMacaron]

Chat block didn't help, also aren't you from primal? Queues were super healthy all last season (PvP healthy). Aether was another story though.

[Chevronone]

Yes. I think you're on my server as well, excal? Sorry, on mobile

Unless Im not recalling correctly, Season 2 was dead mid-season until black-out. I stopped at Silver because I missed the initial zerg to Gold/Plat and started getting locked out. I couldn't get into upper tier matches and unranked/bronze would pop sporadically at best. My queues were sometimes over an hour during prime-time weekend.

[Synestra]

Has anyone tryed to form groups/teams for light-party with this new PF we have? i think now would be good time to check that out.

[DrWho2010]

frontlines gives light, feast does not unfortunately

[Dimitrii]

Maybe I just been lucky but the queues haven't seemed so bad this season. Granted I have played even less games this season than seasons past but that's more attributable to real life obligations (school, work) combined with a declining interest in the game than it is due to queues. In fact despite starting this season a month and a half late I managed to get to gold pretty fast, then ended up quitting for another month before coming back and picking up over 200 points over a single weekend to get to platinum. With the Garo event going on right now the lower ranks (unranked, bronze, silver) should be pretty active. And with regards to the top 100 the bottom half has also been relatively active and will probably remain so till season's end given how tightly packed it is points wise. It's so tight that one win can catapult you over 20 people so no one in the bottom 40 are safe really.

[Zensho]

The length of season 3 is TOO DAMN LONG!!!

[AveriaF]

The reason for the stagnation is the simple fact that SE neglected to add Rank Decay. So once everyone gets the ranking they want, they just simply stop queueing.

[TiramisuMacaron]

The reason for the stagnation is the simple fact that SE neglected to add Rank Decay. So once everyone gets the ranking they want, they just simply stop queueing.

Meh, this season that wouldn't have matter... How aggressive can they actually be with decay? People would get in their 1-3 matches a week and not queue. The new point system is really bad, lots of diamonds don't want to suffer with the players that are gold this late into the season. Chat is disabled so players who use that to gain an edge don't want to play. Garo people are starting to get Gold because of the new point system, and those matches are leading to frustration.

[AdamZ]

Garo people are starting to get Gold because of the new point system, and those matches are leading to frustration.

That is highly unlikely. You need min 20 wins to get to silver. Then to get to gold, you need 36 wins at a 100% win rate. Combine this with the fact that anyone Garo farming is likely to also que for 8v8 given the que times it experienced, and I find it highly unlikely that anyone there for just Garo is Gold.

We need rank decay. Primal top 100 was basically static for months. And it should be regardless of if you have completed matches or not. It should be just a auto point loss, say 75 points a week, after you hit silver (and can't go below silver, 500 points). With the 60%ish win rates of the top players that would imply that they need around 15 matches a week to maintain there points. (that is assuming you win and loss about the same points each match, in the lower ranks you would need less matches to get the 75)