This complaint is very different from your original post. I actually can agree that Splatoon has a difficult learning curve. Although, you are wrong about most players being in ranked. There's more in turf wars from my experience. Your point about the level 10 limit being too high may become a problem in the future, though. If the casual players leave and it's mostly competitive players on the servers, ranked might be the most popular mode. However, Nintendo has been rolling out new modes, weapons, and maps to keep interest and variety, so I don't expect this to be a problem at all. The servers would be shut down before then, in my opinion.
Until the game doesn't ask me to sit and wait for a match that still has 2+ minutes to run its course, I'm not so sure I can believe this at all. Surely, it can find one ending in 30 seconds if there aren't enough people available to get a new lobby going.
I think you were playing at a slow time. I've had that happen a few times, but not too often. Try playing again at a few different times.
That's been happening since day 1. Probably just puts you in queue for a match that had a disconnect. Rooms like that probably have some sort of priority on them for matchmaking.
Asking Nintendo to change the game to make accuracy unimportant isn't improvement. It's just blaming the game when you're doing badly.
That's really bad luck if you have to wait a super long time for a match enough times to be truly annoyed by it; I see this only once in maybe a couple of days. If you do have to witness this much loading, then just have your phone or 3DS or something handy to keep you from getting bored. Heck, Splatoon even provides at least one game to distract you for a while (more if you have amiibo), so Nintendo seems to have a better understanding of waiting woes than other companies.
I'm concerned how 7pm EST would be a slow time unless the east coast just never bothered to pick up the game but:
This hypothesis makes sense, albeit this is something Nintendo needs to look at if that's really how it works. Again, if there are REALLY that many people in turf wars, I shouldn't be waiting at all. I never had to wait earlier this week.
**** I saw this late! I'm sorry!
Kinda hard to coordinate without some form of communication. Best I can do is look at the map and cover the sectors that no one else is at and pray the weapon make up is varied and effective, as well as in good hands. A bunch of inklings with splattershots probably isn't going to fare the best in turf wars against a team that has jrs. and rollers with a med-long range support type in the mix to engage opposing inklings, considering the win conditions.
The majority of your complaints do just boil down to you being a sore loser. You keep blaming the game every time you lose. You blame the controls, you blame levels, you blame matchmaking, you blame your teammates, all you do is whine whine whine about losing.
Look at the map. Look at what your teammates are doing. Running off inking turf? Take a different side path that's uninked and meet up with them at the end. Trying to push? Push with them. Fighting? Back them up. Activating a special? Get in there and take advantage of the opening that gives you. See an arrow indicating that someone's trying to Super Jump to you? Refrain from pushing until they've made a safe landing. Heard a "C'mon" message? Go run to them. Need help? Send a "C'mon" message.
I've won battles where my team had like 3 or 4 inkbrushes. The weapon type isn't important, it's whose using it that is. Also, sorry that people are just assuming you're horrible at the game. Some of your complaints are at your fault though, so you shouldn't just be going around saying everyone is rude or apathetic.
