one annoying thing about dead game discourse is that you can have active and popular games that are difficult/impossible to play in Australia because of our sparse population and geographic isolation. you cannot get any Australian matchmaking for Gears 5, for instance.
Anyway, Australia is crazy passionate about Guilty Gear. Blitzkrieg got top 24 at evo japan, and locals in Melbourne are chock-a-block with +R and Xrd. And whatever your opinions are about Tower Matchmaking are, it just straight up doesn't work here. There's plenty of people in park, but there just aren't enough people to fill tower floors that aren't 10 or celestial so you've just got everyone from 1-9 either trying to find games that aren't too lopsided in floor 10, or get >150ms games of your own rank on the Japanese servers.
This wouldn't be a problem if Strive had a normal ranked matchmaking queue, because Street Fighter and Tekken queue still works fine here, but it instead does a stupid thing where it just does training mode idle in the tower of your floor level.
Idk if this was going anywhere, it's just venting frustration on my part.
