Ranking/competitive systems truly are a cancer on games.
So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others in what is supposed to be a fun game.
So many quality of life standards have been sacrificed just to let jackasses feel superior to others in what is supposed to be a fun game.
Mostly because ranked games were full of tryhards that raged constantly and in general didn't actually treat the game like a game.
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In fact now that I think about it... some of my funnest LoL games back in the day was when I got paired with someone way out of my league in unranked and they would spend a lot of the game mentoring teammates.
And when the opposite happened, we would get stomped quickly and would be able to into a new match quickly. No one felt the need to drag out a unfun/mismatched game because their ranking would get hurt. Wasn't really an issue.
By far, the best time I had in online multiplayer was playing Dota (the WC3 map, not the standalone atrocity that exists nowadays).
No ranked whatever. Every game was a blank slate. Nobody really cared, everyone was having fun. People tried weird builds, odd team composition, etc. You sometimes played with nice people and added them to friends.
With ranked matchmaking everybody is pissy if you are not playing optimally, everyone moans and hisses when they lose, etc.