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Sokalo
United States375 Posts
After gathering data for several seasons now we’ve come to the conclusion that shortening the seasons will better match how most people are playing the game, and support a more dynamic, rewarding, and vibrant ladder experience. Assuming they're seeing that people tend to play the most when ladder seasons are fresh, I'm not sure how shortening the seasons will make them any more "dynamic" and "rewarding". | ||
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willoc
Canada1530 Posts
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PenguinWithNuke
250 Posts
Question: how does placement work from season to season? Do you have to play some more placement matches or what? | ||
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akaname
United Kingdom599 Posts
On September 27 2011 06:09 willoc wrote: I'm wondering if the other reason they are doing this (the first being that they think the first 8 weeks of a season are more active) is that they will be able to roll out balance patches (if there are some to roll out) at the beginning of a season only so that the numbers for balance are nicely divided rather than affecting balance data halfway through a season. this would be smart. it would also mean they might sort out ghosts soon (oh yes, i went there  ) | ||
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Jakkerr
Netherlands2549 Posts
Dustin Browder still had so many places to put rocks on, but there weren't enough maps anymore. With a 2month season instead of 4month he can now fulfill his fantasy of putting twice as much rocks. | ||
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renaissanceMAN
United States1840 Posts
I also don't want the map pools changing every two months, just when I'm starting to get my builds down and figuring out what works on which map and what doesn't | ||
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ckunkel1
United States181 Posts
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Tula
Austria1544 Posts
On September 27 2011 05:57 akaname wrote: i fully agree with what Ben.... says. Probably the best map ever based on the quality of the games i see on it. edit: i know it's a pro/macro map, people can TD it if they want quicker games. the problem isn't so much that it is a macro map, the problem is that it is VERY zerg favored on the diamond and below level. Blizzard isn't completly stupid you know? The GSL maps are made and balanced for the pro level, Tal'Darim the only GSL map in the ladder is VERY heavily zerg favored according to Blizzards statistics simply because it is so big and runbys are so easy on it. | ||
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Spray
United States402 Posts
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Eee
Sweden2712 Posts
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
so when exactly is season 3 ending? | ||
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Raiznhell
Canada786 Posts
On September 27 2011 01:48 Onox wrote: I think two months is perfect. Would be more enjoyable for maps to change around more often. This but also hope that they start including more korean made or iccup made maps into the pool. They try to make the game noob friendly but honestly big maps favor noobs too so they dont get rolled in the first 4 minutes of a game. | ||
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AnxiousHippo
Australia1451 Posts
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ffadicted
United States3545 Posts
On September 27 2011 01:44 birdkicker wrote: Would be nice if mmr was to be reset for once... I don't see any point of ever resetting MMR other than the expansion releases. The ladder promotion system works quite well, and imo if you deserve to be in a league and play a few games a day for at most one week, you'll be in that league no matter what your MMR was at the start | ||
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CycoDude
United States326 Posts
inactives in ladder = who cares; it doesn't affect anything. if you play, you move up the ladder past them. mmr reset is a stupid idea; especially for the higher leagues. can you imagine having to grind 50+ games just to get back into masters every two months? large maps do not favor newbs at all; small maps are much easier to manage. reason being large maps are typically macro oriented, and newbs generally suck at macro. i speak from experience LOL! as for new maps in the rotation, who says there will be? if there are, what makes you think they'll be any good based on past results? i'll keep my fingers crossed personally...the team maps are at least decent i think. blizzard can always change season length if two months is too short so i'm not sweating it. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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tuho12345
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NinjaTrout
United States35 Posts
On September 27 2011 07:19 tuho12345 wrote: New season should come with new maps. Need to get rid of some ridiculous rush map The current map pool isn't too bad. I think I have only used one veto on that searing crater or whatever map (which is completely awful). If they would just get rid of close positions in some maps it would make it even better. But I agree. I like new maps and hope to get some awesome ones added to the pool. | ||
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juicyjames
United States3815 Posts
On September 27 2011 07:17 Torte de Lini wrote: WTF? 2 months for a ladder season? that's ridiculous, why shorten them? http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3229387002#4 Daxxarri, Community Manager, wrote: Players have fairly consistently tended to exhibit more activity during the first eight weeks of a season. It's not unreasonable to conclude from that pattern that a shorter season will also lead to a more dynamic season, since a greater number of players are likely to be active. | ||
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whoopadeedoo
United States427 Posts
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