I hoenstly like the potraits, I dont go for them and dont how to get some of them but you wanna know what when I unlock one I go "oh well that's cool". I dont go for them but I most diefeintly like getting thema dn trying on different ones that I see fit. Some people might even have a lucky portrait, (I myself associaite bad luck with a change in my portrait so I keep mine for awhile normally)

Also I dont think there should be speical protraits for the higher league you are, A bronze player playing 100 games used just as much time and effort as somone or played that many games in diamond or masters. People might say that master leaugers face tougher people making it so they have to put in more effort well no it's not true because you face somone your skill level no matter what league so you beating another person in masters takes the same amount of effort as somone in bronze facing somone else in bronze.

plus some people let's just face it suck no matter how much they play, so some portraits would probably never be assiable to some poeple which isnt cool

Backpack

United States1776 Posts

February 06 2011 23:57 GMT

#123

People should be awed by your tournament winnings and ladder domination. Seeing a pro-gamers username pop up on the loading screen is much more frightening than a kerrigan portrait.

Your username speaks more than the portrait ever will and I think people should just use whatever they find aesthetically pleasing.

Yoshi Kirishima

United States10342 Posts

February 06 2011 23:59 GMT

#124

Yep I am a bit worried, some of the units I feel are out of order (they seem undecided too, they switched bling and roach portrait but really they're the same tier) and the random portraits make things especially confusing and harder to be for sure which portrait is better than what.

Perhaps Blizzard is undecided too but I'm sure they'll figure it out (whether or not in the expansions your W/L record will be reset since it's a new "game" and also whether or not people playing each version of the game will be able to play with each other in some circumstances or if they will be completely separate).

Oh and to answer the prompt, no I think the amount of wins you need for the portraits is good

milspex

Netherlands6 Posts

February 07 2011 00:13 GMT

#125

I think the system is good as it is.

Do you really want to bring that WoW type of elitism in this game? portraits should be accessible with hard work for all players, not just the top 2%. A bronze player winning 1000 games had to work just as hard as a diamond player with 1000 wins, unless ofcourse he farmed them by drone rushing in bronze but everyone will see he did by seeing the win/lose ratio. So it doesn't really matter. It's about the ratio, not the portraits. The portraits are just a fun thing to get, like achievements.

rysecake

United States2632 Posts

February 07 2011 00:28 GMT

#126

On February 06 2011 06:16 SoLaR[i.C] wrote:
I'm not sure if this has been discussed already, but the Terran 1000 solo win icon with Nova BLOWS. I demand a change!

Nothing wrong with havin a hot blonde baby.

tuestresfat

2555 Posts

February 07 2011 00:35 GMT

#127

Agree with OP, blizzard should definitely improve on the portrait system. I mean it's something easy to implement. Sure maybe a lot of people won't give a shit, but I don't think anyone will be against it, and there are those who do appreciate subtle changes like that.

Assirra

Belgium4169 Posts

February 07 2011 00:35 GMT

#128

On February 07 2011 07:49 Touch wrote:

Show nested quote +

What's wrong with being rewarded for skill?

Cause the portrait system was never about skill?
you got the league system for a reason.
The portraits were put in there to show how dedicated you are and how many matches you have won.
Does it realy bother you that much that a lesser player got the same portrait?

Dommk

Australia4865 Posts

February 07 2011 00:38 GMT

#129

They should make portraits have a league requirement too. I always loved the final Protoss portrait, but seeing a Platinum player with it really killed some of the excitement in obtaining it for me

EDIT:

Or maybe even make new portraits with league requirements, or maybe even do it WoW Aerna style where at the end of a season the top X% get some kind of reward, for SC2 it could be a portrait since there isn't much else you can really give people

HaIf

Canada234 Posts

February 07 2011 01:53 GMT

#130

On February 06 2011 03:32 intrigue wrote:
does anyone else remember the Ultra icon from beta? it was for 500 teamgame wins as zerg or something. i normally don't care about portraits at all but this ultra had this big goofy smile and was absolutely awesome, i actually grinded out the games for it. when the game was released, i was very disappointed to find this vague ugly ultra =(((

This? :S

Armsved

Denmark642 Posts

February 07 2011 02:05 GMT

#131

There has never been any glamour in portraits

They are all too easy or too grindy to get. Not a single one that actually requires skill

oxxo

988 Posts

February 07 2011 03:13 GMT

#132

Since when did portraits mean anything at all? They're more than fine the way they are right now. They are not, and never were a symbol of being good or 'elite'.

-_-Quails

Australia796 Posts

February 07 2011 03:18 GMT

#133

On February 07 2011 10:53 HaIf wrote:

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This? :S

Want.

TedJustice

Canada1324 Posts

February 07 2011 03:18 GMT

#134

I'd rather just be able to choose any portrait I want without having to unlock them, personally.

And so would a lot of people. If they let us do that, there'd likely be a lot less people farming wins on the ladder.

daffodil

Australia109 Posts

February 07 2011 03:38 GMT

#135

On February 07 2011 12:18 TedJustice wrote:
I'd rather just be able to choose any portrait I want without having to unlock them, personally.

And so would a lot of people. If they let us do that, there'd likely be a lot less people farming wins on the ladder.

and what? you think blizzard want LESS people farming their game for idle achievements?

OhYess

Canada41 Posts

February 07 2011 03:46 GMT

#136

I'm in bronze, but I definitely think higher leagues should have exclusive portraits. I see no reason not to have them. People complain about how that would be unfair, and that the bronze player worked just as hard getting 1000 wins as the masters player did. And yeah, that's true. But working hard enough to get into masters should warrant something special too.

Sv1

United States204 Posts

February 07 2011 03:48 GMT

#137

portraits are a poor incentive to win and are perhaps a contributing factor to prevalance of cheese. its probably the reason when you also stats someone and see:

1v1 bronze 8 games played
2v2 silver 22 games played
3v3 diamond 1022 games played
4v4 diamond 744 games played

and a poor or slightly below 50% winrate. (with no bonus pool)

tok

United States691 Posts

February 07 2011 03:48 GMT

#138

In beta i thought having the ultralisk was so badass. 50 team wins as zerg, man i trained so hard to get that. Then when the game launched I was like, well I don't care no more.

IntoTheEmo

Singapore1169 Posts

February 07 2011 03:55 GMT

#139

Yeah I remember having nice portraits in WC3 was a huge incentive to play... and you could always tell the good players from the rest just with a glance in the chat channel, with a high win icon and a big number next to it.

The answer to Sv1's issue is to not separate solo from team wins, your solo league icon next to your portrait in chat, and a fix to the # of wins required to get the higher icons. This gives people incentive to try and be good at solo so they look good in the chat channels. There also needs to be animated icons in the profile itself (I really don't know how that's not in the game).

Yes the best way to measure skill is from your ladder rank, but people want something that they can keep for all the effort they spent playing, and right now the current icons aren't really doing that much for it.