Honestly man, I think this VALORANT game is going to die at this rate. The meta is so heavily shifted towards just walk around the map and kill people, it’s boring to watch, boring to play, and people don’t get “better”. The map pool stinks. Ranked is always bad but every day it just seems to get worse and I don’t even know how that’s possible. The strategy involved is really minimal from where it used to be. We had a good thing going and then we released Clove, we removed initiator util heavily, put the outlaw into the game, and failed to understand how that would really affect the game as a whole. I used to run tournaments where every weekend was packed, teams cared, players wanted to improve. Now it’s just random friend groups pugging playing whatever comp they want walking around the map looking for kills and whoever gets better timings win. Players don’t care to get better because there’s no incentive to get better. Trials are so limited for new players because, and from experience, new players just aren’t good enough to compete. We are forced to recycle talent and the good ones move up to T1, bad goes go to T2, and the cycle repeats. Hardly anyone anymore can say they made it from T3 without random miracle BO1s deciding their fate at 11PM on a Sunday. Idk all the answers, idk what even matters. But I want players to have a reason to improve, have that sense of pride when competing, and I want just want to understand why it seems like what the competitive community, the one Riot relies on so heavily, is saying is so seemingly ignored. Old man rant and im saying nothing new here but man. Cmon. Please communicate with us about what’s going on and what we can look forward to.