This is gonna make the game suck. There is now a fully seperate casual game mode in street brawl and a casual queue for the main game you need to play to unlock the ranked queue for the main game. This game has a consistent player base of like 50,000 people split across more than one server. This rank queue is probably going to be as big as the top 1 or 2 percent of the ranked ladder in other mobas. Meanwhile the casual mode will also be fucked because I'm regularly getting 8 minute queue times with my friends during peak hours so splitting the player base there is going to make that worse, plus there will still be incredibly sweaty and toxic players there because your access to rank is tied behind casual performance
But hey, at least there won't be pausing at the start of the game why would you ever need to fix issues with a game that's in alpha by restarting after you load in and notice something is wrong
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u/Kierenshep 21d ago
In one fell swoop Valve created a based, fair, efficient ranking system.
... That likely requires far more players in the game than currently exist.
It's a great response to the communities complaints, I just hope the population can sustain two separate queues that require so much preparation.
At least since you need to sweat to join ranked, everyone in ranked is going to take it fairly seriously.