I'll drop an even hotter take and say that I am completely tired of Splatfests and sincerely wish Splatoon 4 would drop them and come up with something else, but of course that'll never happen.
As far as I'm concerned, it's just a weekend where they take away ranked for no reason. I joke about how Big Run and Splatfest are the same thing, because either way I'm just playing Salmon Run all weekend. The simplest thing they could do would be to leave one queue with ranked modes up, but they won't even give us that because ???
Most of the themes just aren't exciting either, they ran out of ideas a long time ago. You'd think that a three-way format would've given them room for new ideas, but it doesn't feel that way, even early on we're getting duds. I'm so uninvested in them that I can't even understand how other people do get invested in the results. Or perhaps it's because the themes are so boring that people get too invested in the waifu wars instead?
Tricolor, I want to like it, I want to give them points for coming up with something new. I like that they wanted to introduce an asymmetric mode. And I appreciate that it's something else to do besides Turf War. But every time I try, I just don't enjoy playing it. I think the problem I have is that it's hard for attackers to build a comp for only two players, and the Ultra Signals feel like they're very dependent on certain specials to cap them - specials that aren't in my weapon pool. Also doesn't help that you queue before knowing whether you'll attack or defend, and thus can't pick weapons accordingly.
But I think the worst part is just how much toxicity it brings out of people. The amount of venom that comes out every Splatfest is becoming seriously unhealthy. I'm genuinely worried about what this is doing to the community. I really believe that Splatfests are just damaging Splatoon now, and it would be for the best to get rid of them if people are going to act like this.
