Smash Bros. shows us why it's bad not to have an achievement/ranking system of some kind.

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Einsam_Delphin said:

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The above is pretty much what your average online 4-player free for all battle is like nowadays, everyone doing nothing much and not attacking each other, unless there's a fool who starts a fight, in which case everyone else gangs up on them. Yeah I'm guilty of this as shown, but I do similar things in Mario Kart and Splatoon, I'm a troll afterall! It can be so hilarious especially this instance where the guy playing as Cloud would change his name inbetween matches to voice his disapproval. "Team up Really!?" and "DOLPHIN STOP!" made me lol!

However, do I want to be trolling all the time? Naw, variety is the spice of life, but therein lies the problem. Almost every group is like this, a massive difference from a year ago where this was a rare occurrence. Sometimes, I do want to actually battle, so joining 10 groups in a row where no one is fighting can get annoying. It wouldn't be so bad if the Tournament mode was still kicking, since there people had more of a reason to fight so they did, but there aren't enough players so regular tourneys rarely fill up in time and user made ones take forever to find a match.

There shouldn't be this much of a hassle to play the default mode of a game the way it's ment to be played, but I suppose it's not really Nintendo's fault, they can't control what exactly their players do, or can they? Mario Kart and Splatoon don't have this problem (not nearly as bad anyway), likely because there's always something to gain from playing, namely VR and experience points. Smash only has enjoyment to gain, which yeah should be enough, but apparently it's just not. Their next Smash needs to have more reasons to play it as intended, or else it's online will become yet another joke.

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