What do you think would improve the game?

It sounds like reaching red rank isn't hard because the system pairs players up with others who may be of a vastly different skill level. I also don't understand the purpose of the rank reset. How is that a positive? Doesn't it just deceive the poorer players into thinking that they're going against players of equal skill? I mean if I'm (hypothetically) red rank tier and my rank suddenly switched to 20, aren't I going to have that much greater a chance of ruining the games of people who are legitimately new, or less skilled, and thus at rank 20 naturally? It sounds like the ranking system is almost specifically designed TO get players of totally random skill levels to be in the same match. I don't get it.

Yeah I don't get it, I mean I actually legitimately don't understand what they were going for. I don't comprehend what the benefit is (I'm relatively new so I'm sure I'm missing something that would make the rank reset seem much more sensible). When I first began playing it was around the 20th of March or so, and as a rank 20 player I did seem to face other players who were challenging but generally a fair and fun match. Had I joined on the 13th I would have been annihilated and maybe even quit the game right off the bat.

I don't understand it. It's like encouraging highly experienced players to delete their accounts and make new ones so that they can trick less skilled players into thinking that it's going to be an even match, only to get slaughtered.

Are those games not matched based on W/L percentage? (You can tell I'm not much of an online gamer, lol.) That's what seems like the most blatantly common sense matchmaking system to me. This guy's won 5 matches and lost 100, pair him with someone with a similar ratio. Don't throw him against someone who's won 794 matches and lost 42 just because their arbitrary "rank" on a 20 point scale happens to fall within the 8 point differential.

I have to admit that I kind of like the perk tiers, I find it satisfying to see the stronger version of my favorite ones showing up in my bloodweb. That doesn't make it any less of a grind though, and usually the differences are very small (I can't remember which but there's at least one perk out there that grants something like a 5 / 6 / 7 percent difference in something. I mean really?

I also don't like that teaching perks means that other characters still have to grind through the tiers. I made the mistake of thinking that any tier of a perk could show up in any other character's bloodweb at any time. Nope, it seems like I get the teachable perk at maybe level 15 or 20, then the 2nd tier of it around maybe level 30, then the final one around level 40. I thought that I'd be able to enjoy raising a new character's levels WITH the teachable perks, not level all the way up just to GET them.

I understand that the character packs are a source of income and that their fees are basically compensation for the work (and, in the case of licensed characters, the cost of the license) so for that reason I'm okay with being charged for them. I like the fact that none of them are required, that I can pick and choose which ones I want. When they're on sale they're remarkably inexpensive (the most expensive pack I bought was Stranger Things which I think was roughly 5 dollars, most of the others averaged like $2 dollars per character which is very reasonable).

The cosmetics, on the other hand, are obscenely overpriced. Why does one "rare" outfit for one character cost roughly as much as two entire chapter packs? Three "rare" outfits are the cost of the entire BASE GAME. That is, to me, patently absurd. I don't even get the sense of them being that expensive for the killers considering that the person playing as the killer barely even gets to see the outfit. You can buy SOME (why not all?) outfits with shards but not only is THAT requirement also profoundly overpriced, to top it off shards are stupidly slow to accumulate.

I do appreciate that the game isn't pay to win. No game should ever allow players to spend real world money to give them an in-game advantage. But they went overboard with the cosmetic prices. I get that players are expected to spend a lot of time with the game and that outfits are therefore expected to be unlocked slowly, throughout that time, but there are like 200 of them. I'd be afraid to count them all and do the math to figure out how long it would take, or how much real money it would cost, to obtain them all.

TL;DR: Yes, I fully agree. Shards should be obtainable through challenges or daily logins or some other kind of gameplay mechanic that's more generous than the one we have now.