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Please fix.

I play on XBox, but usually not until after 6pm EST Mon-Fri. Weekends can be spotty.

There are a lot of you guys on here. A sizeable portion of this forum is US-based on Xbox/W10.

No, I wasn't suggesting you start over again in a new region, unless you hadn't invested too much into the game. It wasn't my real solution to the problem, but a consolation prize, so to speak.

Sadly, this is a multiplayer focused game from a small studio, their profitability relies on a large number of online players. You wouldn't expect Overwatch or CoD to go single-player for similar reasons. They need people online to flesh out the community and keep queue times reasonable, so they can't make everything available offline - but it's beyond that point for you.

Again, I agree that the drip-feed of characters and the pricing of skins is worthy of derision and should be brought up again and again. Keep making noise over these issues, they will make some concessions where they're willing. Offline content is likely not one of those areas. Likewise, keep making noise about the queue times in your region, but please state your platform and region. Hopefully they'll find a solution, even if it comes to merging regions and playing with higher ping. Ultimately, I think the W10-Xbox One playerbase will keep shrinking, so they need to do something now. Whether it's promoting the game in those territories, doing giveaways, I don't know. I think they're more likely to give up on it though, unless an alternative solution is discovered. Another option may be to scale to a certain number of players. So having 2-4 players and adjusting the difficulty around this.

Either way, I'm on your side, I'm just trying to be pragmatic.

I sympathise, really I do. Which region are you in? And which platform? I can only think you're in a low pop area, or you're playing off-peak. Though I often find games at off-peak hours within 10 minutes. Queuing as a group of 3 does make your queue times longer though. You should really try recruit a 4th, there's so much incentive to do so. If you really are in a low pop region, surely there must be someone on the forum in a similar situation who would like to join you. I know it's a drag.

I play EU PS4, if you want a filler. I have a feeling you're US though?

The only other solution would be to play the game on a different platform or get the EU version of the client and put up with more latency. I do find though, that sometimes MM seems to "break" and you can end up queuing for a really long time for no reason. Restarting the queue helps sometimes.

Ok, so I've received an invitation after a few wins. It occurred on Hanging By A Thread. I assume based on this that it's just random. Some transparency on the % of earning a ticket would be nice.

I'm still not sure what Mastery was, but the pop-up after games seems to have disappeared. I suspect it has something to do with MMR? Who knows.

On a more constructive note, I suspect that both Ginebra and Loaht's skins are so pricey because they're "two skins in one" with the transformations. I can't agree with this mindset personally, and even then, 3000 MP for one skin is still way too greedy.

It really concerns me that apparently this system is working, because I thought selling a higher quantity of lower priced skins would have yielded more returns in the long run. Apparently the whales lack self-control even more than my cynical expectations.

I just checked, that's daft. I've bought about 6 skins, but nothing above 750 MP. I wanted Shae's skin the most, but there's no way I'm paying even 1100.