Ranked CC long queue times

[Karasio]

Once people get the ranked rewards for higher tiers they stop caring.

Up the tomestone rewards for winners and you'll see people pouring in.

Then you run the risk of tainting the player pool with people who are in it just for the tomes and not taking the matches seriously.

[Ransu]

Then you run the risk of tainting the player pool with people who are in it just for the tomes and not taking the matches seriously.

Which is I imagine why he said for the winners. Realistically the game needs rank decay as it would stop the whole people reaching crystal and then stop playing.

[ThaCa]

Rewards would need to be increased for winner and the currency would need something worthwhile to use on.

Even with decay they current system allows people to hit point X and then just stop playing as the highest achieved rating/rank counts for the season's end.

At this rate the active playerbase will keep dimnishing in the Ranked side of things, there's only so many of same borders with different number anyone cares about getting. Even the top1, 30 and 100 titles etc. are one and done.

There will probably be the same handful of people who will play it each season as it has been so far, doesn't help that any newcomers will face extra difficulties since some of them keep running alts to mess with other players.

[Osmond]

I pretty much already knew this was coming before Season 3 starts. Now, well…….ppl got what they asked for and uhh. Long que times, gotta filter out the ppl that doesn’t deserve these ranks. It’s the silence that got me laughing.

[ThaCa]

I pretty much already knew this was coming before Season 3 starts. Now, well…….ppl got what they asked for and uhh. Long que times, gotta filter out the ppl that doesn’t deserve these ranks. It’s the silence that got me laughing.

I don't know why people keep bringing up about who deserves a rank or not, Crystal was free before and is still easy, with how casual the whole mode is even top 100 has wildly fluctuating skill level. There's only small group that play it for sake of playing, most of us got our rewards S1 and stopped because there's absolutely no point without new rewards.

Casual is way better and faster for getting anything else, so of course people would move over. There's no point sweating a match in Ranked for the same rewards again, when you can just roll Casual lobbies and get your achievements or newer Series rewards.

[Osmond]

I don't know why people keep bringing up about who deserves a rank or not, Crystal was free before and is still easy, with how casual the whole mode is even top 100 has wildly fluctuating skill level. There's only small group that play it for sake of playing, most of us got our rewards S1 and stopped because there's absolutely no point without new rewards.

Casual is way better and faster for getting anything else, so of course people would move over. There's no point sweating a match in Ranked for the same rewards again, when you can just roll Casual lobbies and get your achievements or newer Series rewards.

Not arguing over that. I knew casual is going to be the meta going forward. For the majority, it was a challenge. I said to the forums many times. Ppl don’t have a problem in reaching crystal, no one likes to rely on 4 other players to reach crystal with a de-ranking system.

[GordonGeeko]

Casual games are always sh*t though.

[MonteCristo]

We all saw this coming....those posts we made meant nothing

[Towa-Musa]

We all saw this coming....those posts we made meant nothing

we all pointed this out a long time ago and nobody listened, guess we should add this to the *we told you so* book lol

[Elfidan]

Casual games are always sh*t though.

I mean... like 50% of them are though... but like the glorious balance and what not though... xD

The other day I had no less then 4 games where a DRG SAM or NIN had less damage than the healer. I also had quite a few where the healer had 17k or less healing for the entire match.