Quote Originally Posted by BubblyBoar View Post
People don't understand that most people will not do something they don't want to do. All those unique and rare rewards were in PVP before and people still did not flock to the mode like they are CC.
People who keep citing this also don't understand (not you in particular, don't worry) that the reason participation was sparse prior was heavily influenced by:

- the party dynamic (1-1-1-1 of each role) making queue times horrendous (we are talking about less than 5min for one role, up to 3h for another like in season 18/19 with tank)
- enforced trinity system made certain roles either extremely stressful (healer) or unfulfilling to play (tank)
- the queue did not display what roles were needed, let alone for which division / tier
- the Feast game mode was more complicated to execute correctly than people gave it credit for and heavily relied on well executed group bursts, which made early ranks mostly a matter of Healer diff
- the tier rewards (bronze, silver, etc) consisted of outdated tokens for Hellhound weapons that in solitude looked rather meh, nothing got added to that shop nor did the tier rewards improve

So what did they do? They fixed most of these issues, making small-scale PvP extremely accessible for a wider audience and abolished the trinity system for a more individualistic job design, making every class have their unique perks. They also added something nice for the casual players with the battlepass and trophy crystals, letting them obtain the old Hellhound weapons as well.

However they completely dropped the ball on actually incentivising ranked (both tier rewards and high-rank rewards) with something that is unique to ranked.

Crystalline Conflict is fun. I do Casual mode a lot. I'd do ranked as well, but why would I do that if I have no reason to compete, with nothing on the line? Glory and generic titles aren't worth the time, neither is a reused Portrait set with a different roman number and currency I can obtain en masse playing casual.

Sorry for sounding like a broken record, but I just want the mode to thrive again rather than kill it off because some people think it is a waste of <anything>.