Anyone else think that two months may be a bit too short? I mean I laddered heavily for the first two week of the new season and I know I will do it again a the start of the next season but I wanted to play the whole season through next season ( Keep a low bonus pool for the whole season) but with it being two months I might not improve enough to get into the next league and I aim for 1 league a season as someone posted above.

Just food for thought :D although I do like the idea of short seasons I have some doubts that I want to voice ^^

MMello

279 Posts

September 26 2011 16:52 GMT

#22

Yeah they def need to fix this to 2 months and 2 weeks or just 3 months... because of the way GM league works people will only have a month and a half to attempt to get to GM not including the time period where the fucking ladder gets locked..

Cmon TL lets do what we do best and get blizzard to change their minds!!

1st_Panzer_Div.

United States621 Posts

September 26 2011 16:53 GMT

#23

I think 2 months is too short. But I guess the map rotation every 2 months will be pretty fun. (Though it may get annoying for the more casual players that only play a couple of times a week)

lindn

Sweden833 Posts

September 26 2011 16:53 GMT

#24

As long as they remove the completely useless ladder lock that last time lasted like 4 weeks? then I'm fine with this.

DiaBoLuS

Germany1638 Posts

September 26 2011 16:55 GMT

#25

i dont like... 3-4 months = perfect

tehemperorer

United States2183 Posts

September 26 2011 16:56 GMT

#26

Perfect amount of time... Most active players play a lot of games during the week and those daily sessions really make a 3-4 month season seem long.

Crappy

France224 Posts

September 26 2011 16:58 GMT

#27

"More season more map" - White-ra

SaLaYa

United States363 Posts

September 26 2011 16:58 GMT

#28

I am fine with this changed, wouldn't mind seeing it stay at 3-4 months though. I liked going up to 3K points.

Arvd

England54 Posts

September 26 2011 16:59 GMT

#29

I completely forgot about the Map pool switches which will be brilliant. Look at it this way you have to wait a shorter amount of time for metalopolis to come back :D. I miss that map soooo much ^^

RoboBob

United States798 Posts

September 26 2011 16:59 GMT

#30

Anything that reduces the number of inactives is good in my book.

Although I wonder how they're going to do GM. Locking it for 1/4 of a season seems kinda silly to me. But I'm not sure what they could do instead.

Also, I kinda doubt that we'll see the same number of new maps per season. It will probably be reduced to 1-2. Still, more frequent rotation means that really bad maps have more opportunities to exit if the community really hates them.

Inside.Out

Canada569 Posts

September 26 2011 17:02 GMT

#31

two seasons is pretty short, if they keep the 2 week delay on GM that means therell only be a GM league for 75% of the time. also, ladder will become less useful at judging people's skills, since, just statistically speaking, the shorter or smaller a sample is, the more likely it is to be misleading.

Arvd

England54 Posts

September 26 2011 17:02 GMT

#32

Yeh maybe they can leave GM open during ladder lockdown and only restart the league every two seasons maybe. Or they can change the whole mechanic and make it easier to drop from GM.

mewo

United States221 Posts

September 26 2011 17:06 GMT

#33

I really like this. It hopefully means more maps, fewer inactive players, fewer lower level players matched vs higher levels, and a better ranking.

dartoo

India2889 Posts

September 26 2011 17:07 GMT

#34

Frequent map rotation, faster recognition of improving skill, lower bonus pools. I like this.

bruteMax

Canada339 Posts

September 26 2011 17:08 GMT

#35

So long as this doesn't lead to Blizzard introducing more crappy maps every 2 months, this is a good change. Otherwise.... no.

Maynarde

Australia1286 Posts

September 26 2011 17:08 GMT

#36

2 months is fine, I like a good healthy rotation of maps too. I support this, thanks Blizzard

MrTortoise

1388 Posts

September 26 2011 17:08 GMT

#37

The bonus pool does its job ... it mweans that ladders arn't about No of games played so casuals can get up ladder.

if you play enough to exhasut bonus pool (like you should) it really doesnt matter. It just means that starting late dont harm you too much.

LovE-

United States1963 Posts

September 26 2011 17:10 GMT

#38

Love this change :D

PDizzle

Denmark1754 Posts

September 26 2011 17:11 GMT

#39

map pool switching will make this fun ;D

or misserable T.T

LloydRays

United States306 Posts

September 26 2011 17:11 GMT

#40

I agree that MMR reset would be better than just new seasons being shorter. I used to suck but now I don't, but that doesn't change I had a 15 game lose streak once