How making another aka/smurf acc should be - Page 3

On May 13 2012 17:10 enemy2010 wrote:
When do people actually overcome ladder anxiety and realize that a bronze/silver/gold/plat/master/GM symbol has very little to do with your skill and that you can have fun (at least that is/should be the main reason by playing games) without being on the top of some electronic chart that no one really cares for in the first place....

Just save your money and your energy and play on the one account you have.

On May 13 2012 19:09 FrogOfWar wrote:


The problem is, if I always played one race and want to try a second, I would initially suck at the second one. So if I switch in the current system, I would get beat up hard and drop down in ranking. This is fine, but if I still want to play my old race, I would have to work my way up to where I was with that race again, playing inferior opponents for a while. This doesn't make sense. Switching between the two races would mean that I hardly ever get to play someone at my level. With one race I'd get stomped, with the other I would stomp my opponents. No fun either way.

On May 13 2012 16:58 corpuscle wrote:
Yeah, your idea totally stops me from making new accounts and tanking my placements just so I can fuck with people in bronze league.

If you played WoW, you'd know that people who are much farther advanced in the game (ie higher level) fucking love to run around fucking with people who are low level. It's a large part of why a lot of people play PvE servers; they want to avoid getting ganked by people they have no chance of beating in a fight. If I played (as a Diamond) in Bronze, it would be the equivalent of a level 60 running around Hillsbrad killing poor level 20's.

On May 13 2012 17:17 Alvin853 wrote:


So you off-race 3 games, your MMR goes down, you go back to your main race, play 3 games and your MMR is back where it was before, what's the problem? And Blizzard is already adding unranked matchmaking.
Also your opponents don't care, they're not going to remember your name forever after they crushed you just because you were trying something new, unless you're one of the top pros, in which case return to my original statement.

On May 13 2012 18:16 Tyree wrote:
Your idea benefits a very small minority of players, while at the same time throws the entire ladder out the window, making matchmaking pointless because of various smurfs, life a living hell for new players etc.

Its just a bad idea overall, Warcraft 3 suffered because good players made smurfs daily and simply beat on new players, its why the game grew stagnant and the community was closed off.

Do you know how many platinum-diamond players would smurf just to beat on complete newbies on a daily basis?

The game is already very intimidating to new players, its why they are hiding their losses and trying to get new people into it. And i know what you are going to say : "They should just suck it up and practice" but that is a piss poor argument because no company in entire world is going to tell their customers to simply "suck it up noob!" it just does not work that way. Joey Walmart is not going to get beat up 1on1 by smurfs then go "well..i better practice and visit me some Teamliquid, read some strats, watch some replays, practice some more and then finally enjoy myself". It just does not work that way irl, Joey Walmart is going to stop playing and not buying the expansions.

Again the benefit of your idea is miniscule, its there to appease players who are too obsessed with their ranks while the negative of it is massive, pretty much ground breaking.

1. you play 5 placement matches and if you are not new you are not gonna end up in bronze

On May 13 2012 19:11 Catch]22 wrote:


Well you wouldnt, because if you are master with one, you arent that far off off being masters with the rest.

On May 13 2012 17:08 Bayyne wrote:


I'd like to have a separate "account" to off-race without screwing up the MMR on my main race while not paying additional money for it.

We do have a new method of calculating player skill more precisely. The different races tend to be slightly stronger or weaker at different league levels , and since most players only ever play one race all the time, racial strength was an influence on their hidden rating. For example, if terran is slightly weaker at the gold level, the player would have a lower hidden rating than if he were to play a different race at that level. When using this method of calculation, we are seeing good balance at the highest levels of the ladder - race balance is good enough at those levels to have a negligible influence on player performance.