Please delete Ranked and never add it again

[YukikoKurosawa]

Rampant cheating

Wintrading

A person with multiple alt accounts taking up an entire row in the leaderboards

Get unlucky and hit a lose streak and lose all your progress for the day

Meta resulting in you facing the same 5 handful of jobs every match and if you either aren't playing it or get unlucky with your own match makeup you may as well just give up straight out of the gate.

Not even any good rewards for winning beyond the feeling of prestige for being on the top which you won't get because win-traders and cheaters already got to the top in the first day.

Nothing being done about any of the above issues just like Feast.

Look, you obviously don't care about the player experience and integrity of Ranked PvP as always so please just stop adding it and letting crappy people wrongfully be rewarded for behavior they should (but won't) be banned for because that's all Ranked PvP is and has ever been and clearly ever will be.

Just delete it and never introduce it again. Thanks.

[Jybril]

I honestly think you need to step away from Rank for a bit tbh.

[Leonerdo]

I mean, she's not wrong. There are good ways to implement ranked PvP, but this ain't it. Entitled PvE players aren't weeded out properly, because it's so easy to climb the first couple ranks and they expect to keep going. (Sorry but, in any PvP game, you should expect to lose half the time.) Meanwhile, competitive players are frustrated with cheaters, wintraders, WHM/WAR/DRG/RDM spam, mediocre matchmaking, and the inflationary ranked system (which would eventually put EVERYONE into Crystal if it weren't for the Season reset every ~8 weeks.) So the ranked queue, in an attempt to please everyone, is failing to serve anyone properly.

There's only one hope for the mode: If SQEX is treating this like a beta for Crystalline Conflict. If that's true and they see it gets a ton of attention/popularity, maybe they will take it seriously this time, and actually balance things and ban cheaters and fix the ranking/matchmaking to be competitive. It can still be improved easily.

But if they leave it to fester like the Feast, then yeah, the game is better off without the ranked mode. The casual mode can stay, because it's actually fun when you take out all the expectations, but the ranked mode is making more people upset than satisfied.

Sorry, I shouldn't speak for everyone, but I've seen a number of threads and streamers with some extremely negative experiences coming out of ranked (on the same level as getting harassed and kicked from PvE groups). And we all know SQEX's hates any kind of gameplay that could become even slightly toxic.

Edit: Oh and my personal frustration is that I got a lucky winstreak to Crystal on WHM, switched to BLM, and then struggled for dozens of game at 0 Crystal credit (or just above it). I didn't get to drop down to Diamond and then climb again as I got better. I just to got make a fool of myself for 20 matches until I could barely hold my own in Crystal. I didn't want to troll my team while learning BLM, but literally I had no choice, being stuck in Crystal. And playing Casual isn't an option because that's just a shitstorm of randomness where I'd learn nothing.

[Nanne]

Just keep the top 100 rewards the same every season if they can't weed out all the cheating. The only reason boosting/cheating is rampant is because there was always some new shiny reward up for grabs and all the RMT people rushed into each new season but if it is the same calling card frames over and over again things would calm down

[Risvertasashi]

Please delete hyperbolic threads like this and never post them again.

[Nav_Fae]

I agree with Op. Remove ranked. It really doesn't have a place and the "top 100" only encourages cheating.

[ThaCa]

I have yet to see clear cheating on Light, so maybe I'm lucky or blind. The meta also isn't as cut-throat since there isn't even a tank in every Crystal game.

[Ilisidi]

No, please keep ranked. All the cheaters and win traders and co are in Crystal. Nicely self-segregated from the rest who just want to play in peace.

[Feayn]

Pls deleted ranked. We dont need them
Just play with fun, however if you win or lose. We dont need the ranked to see how good we're.

[Araxes]

I am usually all for ranked but at this point.....

If they are unwilling or unable to adress the cheats and Addonusers, there is no point of having a top 100 List. Keep "Ranked" as a Tier reward thing and maybe tie some pets or Mounts to the Tiers but the top 100 List is just a list of Shame atm.

The first thing i encountered after hitting crystal was a whitemage permaspamming imp on me, next Game i had a unstunnable Sam spamming his LB every few seconds. No thanks.