Thank god. Being in Platinum I'm no god but I was being matched up with players so bad I felt like I was back in Silver league. Some dude went Mass Marine/Viking against me and would fly around, land his vikings and try to harass me. I built high templar and won. The next guy tried to marine tank all in me and move commanded his entire fucking army including scvs past me and didn't even correct this until he had like 3 marines and an SCV left.

Shit like this was happening constantly. Thank god I can play an even game of SC2 again.

DeepElemBlues

United States5080 Posts

April 13 2012 13:47 GMT

#103

But, i guess id feel bad if i was diamond having to play a lot of masters, or a GM playing low masters......

i was enjoying playing more masters than i did before this...

blinken

Canada368 Posts

April 13 2012 13:48 GMT

#104

Thank god. As diamond I was just getting used to beating low-mid masters. With this change I played 10 top 8 masters in a row and lost every game. Awful change, thankfully they changed back.

Vindubs

United States110 Posts

April 13 2012 13:50 GMT

#105

aww im 16-3 this season =\ oh well it guess it was prolly too much for low/high level players

GiftPflanZe

Germany623 Posts

April 13 2012 13:51 GMT

#106

im sad.was able to play alot of gms that way

Tulkas25

Greece292 Posts

April 13 2012 13:57 GMT

#107

maybe its just me but aside 1-2 games i played games from within diamond and i am diamond....I don't know how blizzard decides that something doesn't work within 2-3 days..

Ripebananaa

Canada129 Posts

April 13 2012 14:01 GMT

#108

Ladder anxiety is for kids

But really though, I hadn't noticed a change. My friend ended up going 10-22 in master though. Not the most fun. He had to play some pros, which he got mopped.

birchman

Sweden393 Posts

April 13 2012 14:04 GMT

#109

Wow, that was a rather quick switch! I did not have time to play one game during the matchmaking test, so I guess I really can't say anything, but I still think that facing players that are considerably better than you is a good way to assess your own skill.

Taishou

United States7 Posts

April 13 2012 14:09 GMT

#110

At first I didn’t like the change because I was being paired with a lot of Gold players (im plat). Later on I was paired with Diamond players which helped improve my game. I like being able to compare myself to higher skilled players. I think it is good to be paired up with someone much better to help improve. Then when you on a losing slump, some low ones help boost your confidence. I liked it over all.

Cornstarched

Canada74 Posts

April 13 2012 14:15 GMT

#111

Sweet i wonderd why i was playing Dimond peoples when im in silver, learning terran. Im a gold random/toss/zerg but TERRIBAD at terran, its just strange. But yeah good stuff

sc2pal

Poland624 Posts

April 13 2012 14:15 GMT

#112

On April 13 2012 23:01 Ripebananaa wrote:
Ladder anxiety is for kids

But really though, I hadn't noticed a change. My friend ended up going 10-22 in master though. Not the most fun. He had to play some pros, which he got mopped.

ye it happened to me too i got like 1-7 and stopped playing i was matched with only top players >.>

SyntechiTV

67 Posts

April 13 2012 14:16 GMT

#113

fuck i had won all my matches hopefully trying to get out of bronze, dismantled all the golds and silvers i played.

oh well another season of bronze.

LovE-

United States1963 Posts

April 13 2012 14:17 GMT

#114

I really liked the change :| Got to play a couple GM players that I normally wouldn't be able to and won a couple of them.

Oh well, hope they tweak it a bit and bring it back!

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

April 13 2012 14:20 GMT

#115

This explains why some of my friends who were gold got matched against high Diamond players lol.

amazingoopah

United States1925 Posts

April 13 2012 14:23 GMT

#116

for a moment I read matchfixing charges reverted! Savior was gonna come back!!!... and then I read again

HeyJude

United States157 Posts

April 13 2012 14:28 GMT

#117

damn I liked the change lol...got to whoop up on some low diamond and plats :D

RaiZ

2813 Posts

April 13 2012 14:33 GMT

#118

On April 13 2012 16:32 Sisko wrote:

Show nested quote +

The technology just isnt there yet.

Just... No. Remember Iccup and all those players asking only for higher ranked players ?... Resulting in no games for the rank below.
Just plain retarded.

Rapture_FBGM

United States36 Posts

April 13 2012 14:36 GMT

#119

Not sure how the matchmaking affected my laddering. I have a pretty good positive record in Season 7 so far and I've been playing a good number of high-mid Gold players (I'm #1 in my Silver division), as well as a couple of Plat players. I'm not sure if playing these players was either because of the new matchmaking or because I was doing better. Guess I get to find out now.

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

April 13 2012 14:38 GMT

#120

On April 13 2012 23:16 SyntechiTV wrote:
fuck i had won all my matches hopefully trying to get out of bronze, dismantled all the golds and silvers i played.

oh well another season of bronze.

So if you're winning against silver and gold players... why aren't you winning against bronze players who are far worse? And if you do, what makes you think you will stay in bronze for a whole season? Just win and you will be promoted.