The least you can do is lower the amount of time between the Seasons. I feel like a month between Seasons is an incredibly long time. I understand that you guys might need time for balancing and such but it seems like its something that can be worked around during the seasons instead of putting the seasons off completly for an entire Month +
Ranked is a much more enjoyable experience than Unranked. Unranked is the place you go to theorycraft, while Ranked is the place you’d go for competitive fun, and that’s what youre aiming for with Structured PvP Right? Competitive play, with your ESL And all that. You have probably noticed people taking breaks inbetween seasons just because unranked is not enjoyable for them.
Ranked gives something Unranked doesnt, not only is it rewards. But its a sense of accomplishment, teamwork and opposition. This sense of accomplishment is an incredibly vital part of a progressing game. It makes up so much of a players happiness to be able to jump into ranked, try their best to win and then feel good about themselves when they do because they’re moving further and further towards their goal. This does not happen in Unranked, there is no goal to push for. Most people like I myself tend to watch movies while playing Unranked because its so boring and tedious. Ranked encourages people to associate with eachother and to work together and rewards them for doing such and that is the greater feeling, is the feeling that youre doing something better and youre going somewhere while doing it.
Ranked is also the place to improve because you go up against equally matched players or sometimes even better players and that pushes you to learn more and that way you Improve, while Unrankeds mostly are pubstomps
So atleast, please try to lower the amount of time inbetween seasons and you’ll notice an incredibly large amount of the PvP Playerbase be happy and coming back faster. Because lets face it, most of the players that go to Structured PvP are there for the competitive aspect, most casual players go to WvW.
I’m not attacking you guys in any way or telling you that what youre doing is insignificant or bad towards the playerbase. But as for someone whos been playing games purely for PvP for 14 years now, I do feel like this would be the best route and I’m only here in an attempt to help you guys make an already amazing game, even better.
As for matchmaking, people need to stop complaining that Unranked matchmaking matches bad players against good player, to be honest. Theres not enough people playing SPvP In order fro them to balance and center matchmaking purely around Skill level, we would be in queue for hours. So take waht you get and wait for their improvements.