Word! The rank doesn't mean anything unless you want to be rand 1 diamond. Sad my friends don't get me and just look wierd at me if i point this out...

prOxi.swAMi

Australia3091 Posts

July 15 2010 23:46 GMT

#23

The solution to this 'problem' is to stop caring about ur rank, and stop thinking other people care about your rank.

Bearigator

United States233 Posts

July 15 2010 23:52 GMT

#24

On July 16 2010 08:46 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
The solution to this 'problem' is to stop caring about ur rank, and stop thinking other people care about your rank.

I think the issue is not "oh no, my rank will go down".
The issue is, my Zerg and Terran are horrible. If I decide I want to offrace one day, I don't want to get stomped by diamond players until I get down to the division my Zerg play belongs in. Not to mention, when I go back to Protoss, having to play a bunch of players well below my skill level before I can rank up and play people on my level.

UbiNax

Denmark381 Posts

July 16 2010 00:01 GMT

#25

Hmm i dont know, i kinda like that you cant make more than 1 account, it makes me feel like i gotta preform 100% every time i play, and i mean its not too hard to practice other races in custom games with mates, and its pretty easy to find practice partners or players who just wanna play a game or 2 with you

i can ofc see why people would want to make more than 1 account, but im leaning more towards the 1 account only thing.

i think the 1 account only will raise the overall skill lvl faster at the " Normal " players compared to if you can just make a new account every time you screw up your stats or if you want a new account for each race, rather have people pick a race and then play it, and if you they wanna switch then they either just deal with it and go from the league their in or they go find practice partners or whatever.

mucker

United States1120 Posts

July 16 2010 00:06 GMT

#26

One account per key is understandable, but it really should be separate ranks per race. Just another example of how far the decision makers at Blizzard are from their fans. No one that's been active in BW or WC3 would think 1 account, 1 rank for all races was sufficient or reasonable.

Tone_

United Kingdom554 Posts

July 16 2010 00:10 GMT

#27

To a degree I can understand this being the way it is. If you could create as many accounts as you wanted, you'd have people making loads to continue arguments after being blocked (like in wow), and people restarting when they lose a placement match / things are going badly etc. This method does keep people on a solid track, improving and documenting the journey. But along the line it would be nice to be able to reset everything every few months for free. As for a separate measure for reach race, other than a display somewhere showing race stats, I don't see a need for this.

AeonStrife

United States918 Posts

July 16 2010 00:30 GMT

#28

Guest-173
Considering the limitation of 1 account per purchase of SCII, it makes it very difficult for players to play their 'off' races competitively without losing their rank for their 'best' race. If having multiple accounts is not possible because of spam, and repeatedly playing against bronze-level to feel 'pro', etc, etc, Could it be possible to implement 4 different placement match sets of 5 for each individual race? (P T Z and Random?) So we can play all of them and improve our entire SC play, sti...

DustinB
Yeah. I know exactly how you feel. I don't know what the fix is yet for this issue. We'll try to think of a good fix that makes everyone happy.

Alnitak

United States5 Posts

July 16 2010 00:42 GMT

#29

On July 16 2010 08:46 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
The solution to this 'problem' is to stop caring about ur rank, and stop thinking other people care about your rank.

Sorry, but ignoring a problem is not a solution.

I think they need to find a middle ground. The completely open accounts of SC1 and WC3 need to go. It promoted rampant smurfing, names for botting, and names for griefing/teamkilling.

However, Giving people something like 3-5 different names would be nice. If you are just a smurfer, you run out fast. But it gives people the option of having a different name for different races, or it gives the option of 2 siblings to be able to play on the same account.

Subversion

South Africa3627 Posts

July 16 2010 00:47 GMT

#30

I'd like to be able to reset my stats if I wanted to.

Do placements again and work your way up.

pshych0

274 Posts

July 16 2010 00:50 GMT

#31

This is from the dev chat just a min ago:

Q: Do you guys plan to have seperate leagues for each race? I would like to try out protoss but I don't want to lose my rank.

A: DustinB
We have talked about it but there are no plans. If you want to try a new race, you are going to have to man up and take that hit on your rating. Think of it this way, you will be a better player over-all if you branch out.

+ Show Spoiler +

http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/StarCraft-2-Developer-Chat/ch-p/SC2

Spyridon

United States997 Posts

July 16 2010 00:55 GMT

#32

Honestly, the only reason I want multiple profiles is so that I could play multiple races in 1v1 without hurting my record.

If they enabled seperate "teams" for each race on your stats screen, similar to how you can have multiple 2v2 teams, I would be more than happy. That would be great - not only can u play any race w/o losing ladder rankings, but you would be able to compare win percentages for each race.

Duckvillelol

Australia1240 Posts

July 16 2010 00:55 GMT

#33

I was wondering about this too - it makes no sense to me in terms of the 'login' screen, where you put in your password... press to connect... then you connect on the particular profile? I know it's semantics, but what's the point of the second "connection" button? There's no point of it being there unless you have a second account.

In the same vein too - what does the 'guest login' button entail? Login at a netcafe with a guest account? Login on a friends pc? Does anyone know what this is for?

pzea469

United States1520 Posts

July 16 2010 00:57 GMT

#34

the game should simply give you 4 ranks depending on what race option you choose. I could be lets say a diamond protoss, but at the same time be a bronze terrran and a silver zerg, and a silver random.

numLoCK

Canada1416 Posts

July 16 2010 01:03 GMT

#35

Honestly my brother is just never gonna play ladder if I can only make one account. There is no way we're actually gonna buy two copies just to have two accounts :/

Chriamon

United States886 Posts

July 16 2010 01:06 GMT

#36

On July 16 2010 10:03 numLoCK wrote:
Honestly my brother is just never gonna play ladder if I can only make one account. There is no way we're actually gonna buy two copies just to have two accounts :/

Why would blizzard care about this though? If your brother isnt buying a copy of the game, he isn't really a customer, the person who bought the game is.

Thrasymachus725

Canada527 Posts

July 16 2010 01:47 GMT

#37

Blizz has already said that they understand the need for a way to play as another race or a new style that doesn't damage your win/loss record, and that they are looking into solutions. Expect it 1st expansion.

Thrasymachus725

Canada527 Posts

July 16 2010 01:49 GMT

#38

On July 16 2010 09:47 Subversion wrote:
I'd like to be able to reset my stats if I wanted to.

Do placements again and work your way up.

Uh yeah, this is exactly what they are trying to prevent. Stomping noobs in placements or low ranks. It is called smurfing and it ruins the game for a lot of people.

Vortel64

United States18 Posts

July 16 2010 02:03 GMT

#39

On July 16 2010 07:58 NuKedUFirst wrote:
It would be neat if they had a league for each race.

Meaning 5 placements each.
You play terran mainly? You might be in diamond league.
Zerg offrace? Platinum.

+1. I would love this, fantastic idea.

Blixy213

United States360 Posts

July 16 2010 02:10 GMT

#40

Just reading a few Blue posts, they do have intentions on making players get "licenses" in order to play cross realm.

I'm guessing it will will either be: 5$ a month for a license or 20$ up front for unlimited access to 1 realm.

I really hate this idea, and feel the game is becoming less about fun, eSports, and the community, and all about squeezing every cent out of the players.

Edit Here's the link!
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25171934229&sid=3000&pageNo=4