@SewerTierGamer They've always used pubs as warm up games or when they wanted to just mess around. Nothing much changed there.
And those players that wanted this change would be playing rank by now so they won't really be in pubs stomping people.
Those players that leave have always been a scourge in pubs and I've always been hoping they'd do something about it.
At the start of the new season a lot of the high rank players usually just sit back for a bit and let the rank sort it self out for a week or two before jumping in and grinding. That could be the reason why there's so many high rank players in pubs right now. Even I stopped playing for a week cause pubs was really sweaty with high rank players just running around.
I don't see the changes in rank affecting casuals directly but what it did do is just amplified the horrible state of pub matchmaking in apex.
