I don't care, i love them short. At least we get some new maps to fool around and the excitement of having to play a "placement match" that may demote or promote you. I don't like longer season. I agree that GM should be implemented at the beginning tho, getting the promotion if you don't play the first day is kind of pain already so you would want to enjoy it a little more than 1 week^^

Anyway, if your MMR is high enough you'll end up being match with higher league peoples so ladder being blocked means nothing to me but new maps, so it's great

emc

United States3088 Posts

March 28 2012 01:57 GMT

#23

we're losing shattered temple and probably metalopolis or tal darim/shakuras. the votes are pretty consistent, if they are removing any maps it will be in that order. all of those maps have been in the pool a little too long.

EienShinwa

United States655 Posts

March 28 2012 02:03 GMT

#24

I'm actually kind of excited to ladder like mad to gain the top of my division. And then reality hits and I realize I get roflstomped by every Protoss and Zerg unless I 1/1/1 or 2 rax. Leaves me with mixed feelings. I don't like Metropolis as Terran. It looks like our third will be near impossible to secure effectively.

Chaves

Brazil315 Posts

March 28 2012 02:04 GMT

#25

Ok then, hope can i get master or h-diamond in season 7!!!

ZeromuS

Canada13389 Posts

March 28 2012 02:05 GMT

#26

I still feel that seasons are far far too short now

KhAmun

United States1005 Posts

March 28 2012 02:05 GMT

#27

I wish that entombed would at least be forced cross spawns, if not taken out.

The design of the map in terms of close positions is so out dated, and features so many reasons that close positions were disabled in the first place.

FliedLice

Germany7494 Posts

March 28 2012 02:06 GMT

#28

New maps, yay! \o/

MajorityofOne

Canada2506 Posts

March 28 2012 02:10 GMT

#29

I like the faster ladder seasons honestly. The faster seasons go by the faster they upgrade the map pool

LittleRagey

United States24 Posts

March 28 2012 02:43 GMT

#30

I like the seasons being short, but here lately these seasons are too short. GM shouldn't be open for only a few weeks. Seasons should be at least the length of season 2. it was the perfect length in my opinion.

RiceAgainst

United States1849 Posts

March 28 2012 02:46 GMT

#31

Urgh, I was hoping this wasn't going to happen even though I almost already knew it was.

260+ Bonus Pool and 68+ ranks to get to if I want to get promoted before the lock. I don't agree with the season length but if the majority likes it, then that's okay with me.

DjRetro

Chile309 Posts

March 28 2012 02:49 GMT

#32

I didn't play a single 1v1 this season, lol. Well, we're going to see new interesting maps...

Thanks for posting

Dingobloo

Australia1903 Posts

March 28 2012 02:57 GMT

#33

The season is so short, I played a good amount last season then the lock hit so points reset and it was rather demotivating. Now this season i've barely started back up again and it's a lock again ugh. New maps at least but on the down side: having to learn new maps! I just got some refined stuff to open on the new maps and now it's this all over again.

merz

Sweden2760 Posts

March 28 2012 02:57 GMT

#34

I feel like if Blizzard insists on having the seasons this short, they should scrap the 2 week wait for GM. The MMR carries over, so why do they still have 2 weeks until you can make it into GM? People can "sit" on their GM spot, sure, but they have that MMR to begin with for a reason and they still get kicked out if they go over 180 BP (Which happends every season, since I've missed out on GM release two seasons in a row now and i've gotten in due to people dropping out).

The whole "reset" thing kinda loses it's point as well with the highest league locked down. Whenever there's a reset it's always fun to race for that #1 spot, yet there's no ultimate #1 spot because everyone knows the highest league opens up two weeks from now.

ZeromuS

Canada13389 Posts

March 28 2012 02:58 GMT

#35

On March 28 2012 11:03 EienShinwa wrote:
I'm actually kind of excited to ladder like mad to gain the top of my division. And then reality hits and I realize I get roflstomped by every Protoss and Zerg unless I 1/1/1 or 2 rax. Leaves me with mixed feelings. I don't like Metropolis as Terran. It looks like our third will be near impossible to secure effectively.

Are you using these strats all the time anyway? If you use the strats to hit the top of ladder it gets really problematic since you end up relying on them since they are what inflated your MMR.

Part of the reason I hate ladder locks is that people all in like that almost every game and its just a lot less fun to play

DarKcS

Australia1237 Posts

March 28 2012 03:00 GMT

#36

On March 28 2012 10:38 BoxedLunch wrote:
why are the new seasons so short?

season one was my best season, and that was at least 6 months

new maps FTW!

memcpy

United States459 Posts

March 28 2012 03:00 GMT

#37

On March 28 2012 11:57 dignitas.merz wrote:
I feel like if Blizzard insists on having the seasons this short, they should scrap the 2 week wait for GM. The MMR carries over, so why do they still have 2 weeks until you can make it into GM? People can "sit" on their GM spot, sure, but they have that MMR to begin with for a reason and they still get kicked out if they go over 180 BP (Which happends every season, since I've missed out on GM release two seasons in a row now and i've gotten in due to people dropping out).

The whole "reset" thing kinda loses it's point as well with the highest league locked down. Whenever there's a reset it's always fun to race for that #1 spot, yet there's no ultimate #1 spot because everyone knows the highest league opens up two weeks from now.

It's 1 week for GM now. They've had it 1 week for the past 2 seasons I believe.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45148 Posts

March 28 2012 03:02 GMT

#38

Wow this season felt really fast o.o

Although to be fair, there's still almost two weeks left of the ladder lol.

Metalopolis, please go away x.x That's my only downvoted one as Protoss. You've lived a long, healthy life. Now it's time to bury you.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45148 Posts

March 28 2012 03:04 GMT

#39

The new season should start for NA on April 10th, right? That's the Tuesday on the reset week (and all of our changes happen on Tuesdays), and it's a week after the ladder locks.