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Emporio
United States3069 Posts
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:17 slicknav wrote: I suppose the 2 month season is motivation to play more and use up bonus points I really don't understand the argument that wiping out everyone's progress every 2 months is going to motivate people to play. Personally, it feels like one more reason to stop caring about the ladder. Why don't they just display everyone's MMR and be done with it? I guess because people can't handle variance... | ||
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ComusLoM
Norway3547 Posts
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BigBadBeaver
Canada272 Posts
Much prefer MMR reset. | ||
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Shade_FR
France378 Posts
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:23 BigBadBeaver wrote: If MMR carries over what's the point of having a new season...everyone will end up where they were the previous season anyway... Much prefer MMR reset. they say it's to give people incentive to play more games =/ | ||
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IreScath
Canada521 Posts
Now if they gave us an overall ranking ffs it would mean something! | ||
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entrust
Poland196 Posts
BTW. They could replace Tal Darim now and add some newer good stuff. Bel'Shir is the most wanted on my list. | ||
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Dhalphir
Australia1305 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:08 Tippecanoe wrote: WoW seasons are like 9 months long and starcraft 2 seasons are now 2 months long? Going from one extreme to another. I think 5 - 6 months is good, but w/e blizzard is blizzard. WoW seasons need more work to start them. New arena gear, new arena rewards. Maybe more, I'm not sure. An SC2 season doesn't really need anything except someone to flick a couple of switches to freeze demotion/promotion and then reset everyone's rankings. They could do a new season every 2 days if they wanted to. | ||
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Kinshuk
India116 Posts
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ixi.genocide
United States981 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:13 HungShark wrote: I think he means traditional seasons in sports (i.e. Basketball and football)... I don't know, however. I don't watch those sports. I'm pretty sure that he said Wow as in World of Warcraft seasons (blizz's other game) which are long (typically not 9 months but still) | ||
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Azide
Canada566 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:05 HungShark wrote: This was recently revealed on the Bnet forums and I didn't see any other thread discussing this: Also interesting to note two new changes to the seasons: -Seasons will only last two months -GM league placement will last only a week What do you all think of this? Personally, I'm against shorter seasons. As someone who can't afford more than an hour or so of StarCraft per week day, and maybe a few hours per weekend, I feel like I've gotten nothing accomplished. I'm top in my division, but I almost feel cheated that it's ending so soon. Link to main article: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3279043205 what does this mean | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Dropping to bronze obviously. | ||
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shawster
Canada2485 Posts
you don't have to use up that 1.5k bonus pool. and it's refreshing and constantly changing. | ||
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Torpedo.Vegas
United States1890 Posts
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coL.hendralisk
Zimbabwe1756 Posts
It means it'll be only a week before gm is implemented, as opposed to the usual 2 At first I wasn't really a fan of shorter seasons but I thought about it and it doesn't really that much. If the season was a month longer, you wouldn't play better or worse | ||
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ixi.genocide
United States981 Posts
it means that the period where the top 200 players are selected via their MMR is now only 1 week instead of 2. So GM will come a week earlier | ||
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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Sfydjklm
United States9218 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:31 HenryZ wrote: It means it'll be only a week before gm is implemented, as opposed to the usual 2 At first I wasn't really a fan of shorter seasons but I thought about it and it doesn't really that much. If the season was a month longer, you wouldn't play better or worse it means no new players have a chance to get GM. | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12240 Posts
On October 04 2011 14:23 jdseemoreglass wrote: I really don't understand the argument that wiping out everyone's progress every 2 months is going to motivate people to play. Personally, it feels like one more reason to stop caring about the ladder. Why don't they just display everyone's MMR and be done with it? I guess because people can't handle variance... Because once bonus pool reaches a certain point it becomes too high for the average user to want to spend. If the bonus pool were a more manageable number then people would play more. That's no doubt why the accrual rate changed in 1.3 and no doubt why seasons are shorter going forward. New seasons are also exciting for a lot of players so they can see where they'll place. | ||
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