EPTBlizzard asking Diamond level players to contribute to bal…
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NATO
United States459 Posts
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dragoon
United States695 Posts
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WickedBit
United States343 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:27 steff wrote: There are hundreds of pro gamers that have a incredible understand of the game and its balancing, might be a better idea to turn to some of them rather than a random diamond. Well you would logically think so... Nope bad idea. Pro players have a lot invested in their races and while they can give some hints as to what hard stuff they are facing, they are not the best people to be making balance decisions. The random diamond+ a pretty good qualifier since a random player has perspective on all races and diamond+ means good enough understanding of the game. You don't need to be a GM player to understand balance, just know enough about the races, current metagame trends, how micro affects stuff etc which I am sure diamond players know about. EDIT: Also random players will usually be a bit worse in their rankings than a similarly skilled 1 race player. | ||
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Mo0Rauder
Canada182 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:30 Lukeeze[zR] wrote: There is no 100% random player in Master/GM, no ? I personally know one top 10 master random player, so I'm sure there are many. | ||
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bittman
Australia8759 Posts
It's a dumb requirement to be honest. Not because it's diamond league but rather that they're hoping to find a fantastic designer who also spends time playing this specific game. Anyway, all job requirements are negotiable. | ||
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halfies
United Kingdom327 Posts
diamond players are likely to understand enough about the game to not make entirely stupid claims all the time, and with the amount of tournaments around now, blizzard is probably not short of data on very high level play, so they dont need that perspective too much, and its not like pro are afraid to talk about how under or overpowered a race is. | ||
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Le BucheRON
Canada619 Posts
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:30 Lukeeze[zR] wrote: There is no 100% random player in Master/GM, no ? If only Gumiho and TLO were still random... I hear that MVP's off-race is pretty good, especially his Zerg. Dunno if he can ever ladder as random, though. | ||
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Jetaap
France4814 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3517 Posts
Obviously pro players are going to whine in favour of their race all of the time, and there isn't exactly a huge contingency of pro quality random players. /shrug Take it with a grain of salt, people. | ||
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Enhancer_
Canada320 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:28 nGBeast wrote: its diamond or higher you illegitimate idiots Illigeitemate is not the same as illiterate. Confusing the two is hilariously ironic. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25563 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:31 Mo0Rauder wrote: I personally know one top 10 master random player, so I'm sure there are many. I've run into randoms on the ladder, but I'm not very high in Master League. There are definitely Master League randoms though-- Diamond is not the top of the Random player skill ceiling. That being said, overall the requirements for this job look cool! If my field of study was game design rather than QA I might even think of applying :3 | ||
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princealexander
38 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:30 Lukeeze[zR] wrote: There is no 100% random player in Master/GM, no ? I know guy who is 100% random, was GM some seasons ago | ||
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LeafMeAlone
United States301 Posts
Since this is only a temporary job will they require you to move into their offices? | ||
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dragoon
United States695 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:31 WickedBit wrote: Nope bad idea. Pro players have a lot invested in their races and while they can give some hints as to what hard stuff they are facing, they are not the best people to be making balance decisions. The random diamond+ a pretty good qualifier since a random player has perspective on all races and diamond+ means good enough understanding of the game. You don't need to be a GM player to understand balance, just know enough about the races, current metagame trends, how micro affects stuff etc which I am sure diamond players know about. EDIT: Also random players will usually be a bit worse in their rankings than a similarly skilled 1 race player. you also have to realize that pro players want a balanced game. if the game isn't balanced or is completely broken for their race, sure they'll win alot, but then tournaments will realize the game is incompetent and stop endorsing it. the game has to be balanced for it to succeed, which is what pro players want. | ||
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KalWarkov
Germany4126 Posts
When i see diamond players opinions on the game, its most of the time complete bullshit. what they struggle with is imba, what they use is not. there are exceptions, but those are rare enough to laugh pretty hard about this statement The ideal candidate will rank at the Diamond level or higher as a Random race player on today’s ladder, and will have an in-depth knowledge of all three races and current strategies for each. | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
master random fluent in korean and english, blizzard will be all over me like hobos fighting over 40oz mickeye's. only if i was unemployed | ||
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MstrJinbo
United States1251 Posts
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IronManSC
United States2119 Posts
A good start by blizz though. | ||
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sevia
United States954 Posts
Of course, a person who deeply understands all three races would probably make masters with random just off of strategy alone, but they could just be the kind of person that prefers to spectate. The important thing is that they hire the right person for the job regardless. Getting mad at Blizzard for casting a wide net is really, really stupid. | ||
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