Let's be real, Glory, Survival, that **** isn't Ranked. It's... "Ranked" but not ranked.
How to fix(maybe):
1* Make the grind to higher ranked longer... as in... wayyyyy longer... You shouldn't be able to play 20 games and be Legend that easily. Winning 20 games in a row should land you in slightly above the middle rank, BUT it should also make you face better opponents AND better team mates.
2* Make the match making Rank based AND connection based... It's okay to have to wait 10 minutes just for one match, if you play ranked you should be playing because you take it serious and not just because you want to get your 3 game reward! Obviously this will be an issue with people boosting and such but eventually people will stop doing so because when the boosted players then play on their own account again then they will start to drop to their actual skill and rank ALSO because the grind is longer people doing the boosting will crave more money and therefore there will be less people buying boosters.
2* Change the game mode to something that rewards thinking and planning. Currently the issue with Survival isn't that it's not competitive... it is... but, there's no risk, the games last so long and it's so easy to climb that anyone can just grief and ruin your matches because they get salty lose nothing but a tiny bit of glory points. If it were a game mode like elemination or whatever the TotN game mode was called then people would play more serious simply because, if you die, you get punished by having to waste YOUR life, not others. Doing so makes it unfun to die.. of course... the game mode will be less fun because you can't do anything when you die, but guess what! it's not supposed to be for everyone who just wants to play for fun, it's RANKED for the few players that take competition serious. Right now, if you die who cares just revive and keep going until you either win or lose, then go next game because who cares it's fun to shoot stuff haha ooga booga
3* I don't know if this is the case or not, but if not then get a team on bungie dedicated to pvp balance, that being in the maps, the gear, the classes and game modes.
4* Make all the maps viable with all playstyles, instead of having different maps that favor different playstyles.
5* Stop listening to people who whine and complain about stuff they don't know anything about like "this weapon is too OP" or "Nerf this because reasons" or "Buff this because I use it and am is bad stuff". Don't just look at win rates on stuff when nerfing or buffing it. Test everything first, several times. Win rate does not mean it's OP, it means it's popular and good, not all popular and good things are OP.
*6 Lock equipment. Make people think about their loadout and game plan before the match starts, it encourages better team play and adds a more serious tone to the activity.
7* Do like in trials and make players able to see enemy team's equipment before the match starts.
and finally 8* Add new rewards for hitting max rank. It doesn't have to be a weapon! an emblem or shader or other cosmetic item(s) is enough. Just make it unique to max rank only!
Feel free to post feedback in comments I will read most of them, and try to answer most of them if I can! :)
Maybe if features like these were to be added, Destiny 2 Might even have a larger e sport scene and bring more fresh players to the game :)
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Destiny will never have an Esport scene. They tried and it fell flat. Until bungie splits the PvP and PvE sandboxes completely.... This game will never be balanced enough to have a true competitive scene.