[RANT] Ranked Cups feel like a chore rather than the highlight of the game.

From the Tokyo tour to the Paris tour I felt like scores were fun to get and I enjoyed competing against “other players”. But with this tour going, I play the courses once and lose any motivation to try more. Frenzies are luck based, I could play 1 course 100 times and it’s not even close to guaranteed that I get 3 frenzies to reach the max score. These sudden spikes in scores to compete in ranked, and the higher point requirement to get 5 stars is really killing the games enjoyment for me. You play a cup for a week and you get slightly more than half of a pipe pull that doesn’t guarantee anything noteworthy.

The most fun for me is to try more courses that I remember from console Mario Kart games, but they release them in the slowest manner possible to the point where it’s annoying. They removed coin rush tickets as rewards, they changed the gold driver for FTP players to a silver driver, and every character they seem to release is just a recolor or a single new piece of clothing, or a new prop (i.e. black shy guy, every peach and Mario reskin, and my boy waluigi just got some different textures on his clothes).

The game was something I spent hours on each day for the first few tours, but as someone who defended the game from critics and recommended the game to friends, I’m really feeling burnt out and disappointed in what this game could have become. This is just my feelings on this topic and I’m open to criticism and counter-arguments in the comments. Have a great day!