You are very welcome, dev team. We do this because we love the game. And it's also because I love the game that I have to voice my opinion on something. I hope you'll listen to me.

I'll try to be brief. I didn't even want to buy this game. I got it after trying the free weekend and in 2 short months it's become my most played game on steam with 350 hours played and in that time I've become a competitive player. Very rarely have I had such fun with a video game and a lot of this comes down to the skill ceiling involved in ranked matches. Map knowledge, guessing enemy tactics, using intel from drones and cameras, ect. All in all I think you have a great game on your hands and I really appreciate the support you are giving it with due patches and improvements.

However, there is one such "improvement" that you are about to implement which I and a lot of other experienced users in the Siege community believe is a very very bad Idea.

You write: "While there were excellent design reasons to remove the Kill Cam from Ranked, we cannot compromise on the quality of our game experience. For this reason, we are enabling the Kill Cam on Ranked matches to remove this ‘hiding spot’ for cheaters"

You must realize that by doing this you are basically letting the cheaters win. It's bad enough that you enabled points in ranked so you can see if you injured a player (therefore the injured player has absolutely no chance to get away unless there's another team mate right next to him) but enabling the kill cam in ranked will give the enemy team too much intel! It will tell them where the enemy team's positions are, the traps that are set up in the room you got killed from (and God help the defending team if it's the objective room), tactical movements that are best kept secret by the enemy team, ect, ect. You must realize that doing this will not deter cheaters. Yes it may make it easier to spot them but the cost is too great! This will only help newer players who were outplayed by experienced players who killed you because they were standing in a better spot. This destroys the skill ceiling of the game in a disturbingly loud and sickening crack and what we're left with is basically just casual with a rank.

Please don't do this Ubisoft, this game deserves better! I know you even want to take the game to eSports some day and even though this isn't possible in its current state I am confident you will get it in such a polished state soon with all your improvements and updates and I really look forward to that. But this is not one of the decisions that will get you there. This is only going to hurt the game and the community.

And rest assured, I feel so strongly about this that despite my investment in this game of 350 hours, I will stop playing if you add a killcam to ranked. So will many others. This is an exceedingly bad idea and I truly hope you don't go through with it. If you want a tool to help catch and deter cheaters then please consider adding a theater mode like in Counter Strike where you can view the entire match after it's over from every point of view. Even if this will take longer to implement than a killcam in ranked it will be a far better option and beyond worth it in the end.

Please don't take my words here lightly and know that many valued individuals in the Rainbow Six Siege community feels the same way.