Just get rid of ranked

[Bluish]

It brings to mind the battle high system which we all know only considers kills, assists and deaths. Time at the crystal, damage taken, done or healed should not weigh in but should be there to view and help evaluate each job's capability and performance. Would a score system based on battle high system not be sufficient to produce some maths for each individual in the winning team? Assists will need more rewarding to balance each jobs ability to kill, and the cost of death needs careful consideration. The ranking could look just as deep dungeons ranking is presented. We don't need any tiers. Loosing team could retain a percentage of their individual score so no match would be entirely pointless... I dunno, I'm probably fantasising here but on the surface it could be this simple. Show us the top few hundred ranking weekly and all should be well. We don't need to see each other's scores till they appear there. At the end of the season rewards will go to those who put in most effort into their team play and into the content. Make it a consistent grind through any season so people don't finish climbing while they are still bloodthirsty and end up climbing on their 5 alts too. Make rewards worth it. I mean everyone should get a portrait frame with their score and season number for a keepsake XD

The merge needs to happen, somehow.

[Towa-Musa]

You'd in theory, just have to participate in the game mode, and you would naturally land in queues with people of similar skill, in similar ranks. Achieving high enough ranks would be sufficient to unlock the awards gated behind it. I'd probably put rewards beyond Platinum personally. Perhaps a unique armor set, or weapons that actually look cool enough that people would want to farm them.

I bet people would complain about being unable to get these rewards, but it would not be as much of a problem if they at the same time put items worth purchasing in the Crystal store, so it would feel like less of a total waste of time if you were stuck in a certain rank. Some content, people won't be able to clear, and thats fine. Nobody complains about Ultimates and savages, so I don't see the issue so much if they did the same with *some* PvP rewards.

sounds like that would work to me!

[Towa-Musa]

I've proposed the idea to merge both modes before, but one must be considerate in doing something like this because the only reason that casual is so popular is that there is no rank nor pressure inside. If you start adding leagues (bronze -> crystal) into it, I can guarantee you that you'll make half the players flee the mode in less time than it takes for the devs to nerf Bard to the ground.

You'll need carefully hidden ratings from some form of ELO system where everybody can only see theirs and not anybody else's, unless for example they reach a certain threshold (crystal level) where it becomes readily available for everybody to see, or something in that vein, for example.

You also cannot rate performance on all the metrics shows in the tally alone, else you'll favor immensely certain jobs or roles over others (good luck shining in such a metric based system as a support job like BRD).

Hrmm yeah you raise a fair point..

[Osmond]

Its on constant life support and everybody would much rather play casual, what is the sense in supporting something the majority of the players don't care about?

From now on just focus on adding stuff to the series pass and the crystal shop.

It is what it is. I saw the signs, I said my warnings, I saw my hands getting slapped, I nope out. Now, it’s buyer’s remorse. That rank decay was a death knell from me. I can’t blame players going to casual. The only thing I can see rank is for prestige. They could follow the SF6 route. The only time you rank decay is at the highest of the high rank. If you face a higher rank player and won while at lower rank, you gain more points, but the higher ranks facing lower ranks lose none. You only lose points facing a player at the same rank as your own.

[Towa-Musa]

It is what it is. I saw the signs, I said my warnings, I saw my hands getting slapped, I nope out. Now, it’s buyer’s remorse. That rank decay was a death knell from me. I can’t blame players going to casual. The only thing I can see rank is for prestige. They could follow the SF6 route. The only time you rank decay is at the highest of the high rank. If you face a higher rank player and won while at lower rank, you gain more points, but the higher ranks facing lower ranks lose none. You only lose points facing a player at the same rank as your own.

Its not even prestige anymore dude, you are literally rolling the dice when you enter a match XD

[Osmond]

Its not even prestige anymore dude, you are literally rolling the dice when you enter a match XD

I know

I can’t think of any solutions to save ranked other than an idea which SE won’t do.

[Esmoire]

If they were to merge them, an MMR system is the best way of replacing it. Might want it to just be visible or make it so you have to jump through hoops to see it if they don't want to scare away people who see casual as safer.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

"We hate ranked, get rid of ranked"
"Merge it into casual just have one mode"

Either you have a rank and it is ranked or you don't and it is unranked/casual.

The whole point of casual is the lack of a rank, therefore nothing on the line. Just adding rank in there would alienate the people who want to pvp while actively avoiding ranking systems.

Awful idea.

[Elfidan]

To be fair the whole point of casual modes in pvp games is to warm up for ranked play. Nobody does that though. lol

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

To be fair the whole point of casual modes in pvp games is to warm up for ranked play. Nobody does that though. lol

Please speak for yourself, I do. Also no, casual exists not purely for warmup, the name hints otherwise.