Actually cannot get a Ranked match

[GordonGeeko]

..........so you're saying that the only way to fix pvp for this game, to fix CC is to basically sacrifice 80%+ of ppl in order to get the best of the best in the top ranks. If they can't make it they just incompetent and shouldn't play the content at all lmao. That's a great way to kill your game lol.

There's casual queues for people who want to play for fun. Ranked should be competitive. Right now, it's not. No one wins, the competitive players are frustrated to play with newbies and newbies are frustrated that they can never win.

Crystal queues should be where the best fights the best only. Yes.

[GordonGeeko]

Have you played Feast Team Seasons ? If so, did you enjoy it ?

[VoidsentStatus]

I can say for Gold, Plat, and high Diamond on Primal and Crystal, the only queue times I can get a match seem to be like 6/7PM-2/3AM Eastern. I was trying to queue at 4-5PM on Saturday, nothing. That morning at 10-11AM and hit 87 minutes wait time before a kick out. Even the weekend doesn't change it. I've had times where we've had the same 10 people for 4+ matches just reshuffled. We already knew who was going to win because of the carries. We ended up with at least 3-4 ex-Crystal's (borders showing) in Diamond 5/4, going against legitimate Plat 4's with a huge skill gap. And so, that whole series was just based on who had the most Crystal's on their team from RNG since noone new was being brought in. Finally got like 3 new people (7 names of the 10 I knew), match plays out and the next queue goes for like 20+ minutes and can't find a match. Like there were enough people who just quit to not even have 10 people anymore so the entire queue just got killed instantly.

[GordonGeeko]

If someone just wants to hit Crystal and stop there because they want the frame/achievement or something, that's fine. They'll just stop playing and keep that rank for the season because of no decay. I highly doubt that's a significant portion of the ranked player base.

To your example, if someone got to Crystal on a lucky winstreak and they keep playing, sooner or later they will fall back down because of the de-ranking. That's the goal. Before, they could have gotten a lucky winstreak, got to Crystal and then lost 95% of their games and they were not going anywhere. Now they are.

On the reverse, someone who got unlucky and fell back down will grind to get back up. If they truly deserve to be there, they'll get there eventually.

Demotion is fantastic and yes, that might very well happen to me and that's okay.

I think people seem to think that Feast was a lot more "dead" than it really was. It was slow at times because no one wanted to play healer because of the insane pressure on you to perform. With the current no role restriction and the larger player base, if you gave better rewards for top 100, ranked CC would be just fine.

Luck is a much bigger thing right now, because there are Crystal players that are so hilariously bad that the games are determined not by who plays better, but by who has X person on their team. If X is gone, then you go back to a contest of skill, not luck.