Minorities!

The format of FACEIT incentivizes more competitive playing: you get points for winning, which means that if you decide to fuck around with some silly loadout etc. Different formats attracts different players; it would be an uphill battle for casual players to try to play casually in PUGs instead of Valve pubs.

A working ELO system is not the same as caring about win / loss. A behind-the-scenes ELO system would mean that players play with their respective skill ranges. But having a ranking system that (roughly) displays that ELO incentivizes getting better and is what creates value of that win / loss. If you are a casual player and just want to fuck around, you don't want to care about raising your ELO; you just want to be in the right ELO: I assume that casual players don't really want to try, but still want to get a kill and win every once in a while.

That is pretty patronizing. It's not like these casual players are just where the special-ed kids go; it's the majority of the player base. They probably know what they want.

This whole thread is a circlejerk. I actually quite like FaceIt: it's much more gratifying to win and get kills when everyone is actually trying, and there are no bots.