It would only be optional if it were an endless mode. Since it's locked to two a week, it's not optional. Who the hell's going to choose to get less rewards?
Not sure why but text and icons like to flicker a lot for me. It's easiest to see in the chat box. I've tried verifying the game cache and cleaning up the install in the launcher but that didn't help. Not sure what else I can try
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Switch players cannot trade plat with the other platforms, but after the merge we're thrown into cross-platform trade chat with no way to filter to only see other switch players when playing on switch