I’m pretty sure I posted about this already a long time ago but I’ll bite again. What do you think competitive pvp is about? It’s not about how we give fluffy bunnies to whomever wins and then skip off into the sunset that’s for sure. Show me one game where trash talking isn’t involved in a ranking pvp style set up. It is shameful to lose and that’s because no one queues up to lose, they queue up to win. The problem is people take the trash talk to heart way too much. And if that’s the problem with why people don’t want to queue or they think trash talking is the problem then perhaps regular warzones is the place for them.
I’ll give you an example, CE and OoS talked trashed to each other plenty of times before ranked came out and when ranked was available. We did it to bring out each other’s competitiveness to make ranked matches interesting and actually have a purpose; OoS did this with Sleens and other guilds also. But we didn’t hate each other for it and become elitists and trolls to each other, we kept it to the pvp and moved on. We even had a ton of CE people in our OoS guildwars2 guild. So there’s no “morale boosting” needed, people just need to realize competitive pvp is competitive and they need to deal with it.
But all of this above crap is negligible because of my previous post. The Ranked PvP side of Jung ma is dead and there is no one saying they are the best anymore so there is no one willing to challenge it. So what’s the point of being ranked if there are no teams fighting to be the top?