Will this move be coupled with a crackdown on Smurf accounts? Because I'd imagine without it, people will just account hop instead of playing out games.
One of the hopes we have here is actually to prevent a certain specific brand of account hopping.
Many of our punishments are time based. This means that people with multiple accounts can often swap accounts and play until the punishment on their main has expired.
With game based ranked restrictions, those people will eventually need to come back to their main and play those normal games. There's no way to use an alt account to circumvent the punishment entirely. Obviously it only works for players who play ranked, but if we see improvement here we can try new features in the space later.