Because it doesn’t seem to matter currently if you play ranked games or casual games, the general experience tends to be the same. But one has numbers and things to go with it. You still get people playing to win in casual games and you get people dicking around having fun in ranked games, and the ranks don’t necessarily indicate how they play as a team and a whole bunch of other things that make it less than ideal.

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It actually sounds better yeah.

Don’t I know you from somewhere? 🤔

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Smash Bros uses/used “For Fun” and “For Glory”, which I thought was pretty cute.

I think there is an issue with saying that ranked is “playing to win” though, since people in non-ranked games are still trying to win. They probably don’t want the pressure of ranked, or maybe just don’t want to play the meta.

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I think there is an issue with saying that ranked is “playing to win” though, since people in non-ranked games are still trying to win

And also people in ranked may still be having fun

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I play LeagueOfLegends and play exclusively Normal Draft only. The pressure and toxicity is just to much.

Aside from that, don’t care much about the rank. It’s just more that people expect and force you to play ‘at your best’ and if you don’t. Well expect to be spam pinged, insulted and even trolled because “you died once because you played bad”.

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Ranked can simply be for fun for lots of people.

I enjoy playing against people with about the same skill level.

On casual/for fun I either get owned or I’m owning.

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MLG or Childhood Hobby

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Why make it harder to say the same thing?

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