I think solo shuffle popularity will fade in favor for 3s in the future.
Maybe not tomorrow or the next week but eventually a lot of people that make success in shuffle will want something more challenging that gives better rewards after they get more confident in themselves.
Well, I’m not gonna argue with your idea of natural, but it’s a statistically improbable development. The rated solo PVP game mode is not a new thing. It’s been tried, tested and implemented in a number of other games. In some cases it practically became the primary/solely played game mode, in some it wasn’t as successful. None of the cases though, involved the player base going back to the previously available game modes. People (most) don’t want to have to interract, they don’t want to have to find partners, they don’t want to play a far more complex team pvp encounter. Rather, they want to press login, queue arena, press buttons, kill stuff, alt+f4. Audience (player base) interests evolve over time, but the general trend is a decrease in complexity, or simplification if you will. The younger generations dont enjoy theorycrafting, they can’t stand farming, they don’t want to spend 3 hours killing thrash mobs just to get to the boss fight.
So, even though personally, this has pretty much killed the game for me and makes me really sad, the reality is that what the actual players the game is for today, as it was once for us (we’re past time braw, old and rotten) want, is not 3s. It’s solo shuffle.
Thats maybe true i was a 2s Andy and never rly like and was good at 3s, with playing a ton of SoloQ my awareness was going on in 3s is a lot better, with that much practice and i start too Q 3s and enjoy it way more
If 3s got a rly high inflation people would Q up again knowing its easy too beat there personal best raiting