Hearthstone

Quote from Ben Brode

1. Top end players have to grind too much to get fun matches each month.
2. Low end players have very little progression: just a few wins and then they get "stuck" at rank 20-17. This is the vast majority of active players.
3. New players who enter ranked get crushed hard (after a pretty good experience in Casual).
4. Doing the same thing over and over again each month feels like a 'grind'.

I think we can do all that (hopefully - this stuff is difficult to predict without live testing). The hardest to hit is number 4, since progression is fun, but the more you have, the more 'grindy' it feels. I actually think that things like a potential Tournament mode could help with that even more than any specific change to ranked.