Just get rid of ranked

[Towa-Musa]

mhmm... I don't have enough adjectives to describe my level of butt-hurt; it's so bad... ;_(___

Im sorry to hear that :/

[Towa-Musa]

Yeah... I was forced to play ranked because l want the glowing sage weapon! It was not fun. I don't see the need to get rid of ranked, But SE should handle it like feast ranked. You will progress towards the weapon skin Even If You land in bronze, But it is just going to take a long time for one weapon.

another has fallen to FOMO tactics...

Can we get an F in the chat?

[GayRobot]

Other games (Battlerite is the one on my mind) leave the "casual" and "ranked" queues separate, but track rating in each mode separately, and allow players to be matched cross-queue. When a team of Ranked players meets a team of Casual players, the Casual players don't see the Ranked players' ratings, but the Ranked players see the Casual players' "hidden" ratings, and are matched with them accordingly.

In that kind of a system, Ranked vs. Casual is "please show me my rank" versus "please don't bother me with that shit", and even for players who are invested in their rating, you get to choose "I'm playing seriously" versus "I'm learning a new job, trying some weird stuff, or otherwise not at my best". In the games I've played, it seems to work pretty well, and insulates against the occasional unfun shitstomp in a mode with no matchmaking algorithm whatsoever.

Just don't bother people about rating if they don't (or shouldn't) care about it, please.