People that weren't going to ladder to begin with still won't. It's time to stop going out of the way to cator to casuals. They've already proven that they will not stick with the game. They can just turn on a stream and watch someone with the courage to click the orange button.

RageCommodore

Germany912 Posts

May 10 2012 23:58 GMT

#22

Will definitely use this for offracing/ trying new stuff.

MetalPanda

Canada1152 Posts

May 10 2012 23:58 GMT

#23

Honestly, I'd like this because of Funday Monday

radscorpion9

Canada2252 Posts

May 11 2012 00:06 GMT

#24

I really like it, just because it might actually allow me to play without feeling that uncomfortable anxiety, diminished though it is...its still too unpleasant for me to "play" this "game" and actually feel good about it. But I know that to advance eventually I'll have to play normal ladder games. I think it could help in general, because if people feel more confident in non-ladder games it could decrease the anxiety of having to play against normal platinums (err whichever league you're in). Of course, in theory the average skill level of each league would just increase proportionately to that, so it might not give that sense of comfort after all.

Luepert

United States1933 Posts

May 11 2012 00:06 GMT

#25

This will be a hell hole of utter cheese.
At least that's what I'm going to do

Manex

Australia156 Posts

May 11 2012 00:07 GMT

#26

the unranked matchmaking is absolutely essential to stalling the steady haemorrhage of players away from competitive RTS.

Onlinejaguar

Australia2823 Posts

May 11 2012 00:09 GMT

#27

I think it will be extremely useful for times you are away from the game for a while and want to shake off some of the rust.

tskuzzy

United States33 Posts

May 11 2012 00:09 GMT

#28

I would use it if I could pick what race my opponent is in order to practice a certain matchup.

United States2586 Posts

May 11 2012 00:13 GMT

#29

On May 11 2012 08:50 IPA wrote:
I'm anti unranked ladder period because it coddles all of the "terrified" players from stepping into the joy and heartbreak of true ladder. I think it'll raise up a new crop of cowards in HotS.

Who cares? If the only reason to be against unranked ladder was to spite players who wanted to queue for 1v1 without anxiety then I simply see no reason to remove it. If we're talking about how it'll split the ladder and the lack of incentives for those players to go back into ranked...then...

On May 11 2012 08:58 MetalPanda wrote:
Honestly, I'd like this because of Funday Monday

What fun is funday monday if you're actually gonna give a shit about your rating and preserve it?

EnderSword

Canada669 Posts

May 11 2012 00:27 GMT

#30

Im not saying it should be in the game at all, people seem to be mentioning the use of unranked play In General, Im not suggesting they don't put it in at all... jsut that it may deter players who Would use the ladder from using it if it is in immediately.
It make cause people to procastinate then be scared to jump in later, when if the option was not present in the beginning, they'd jump in.

DMTsyncope

Netherlands46 Posts

May 11 2012 00:28 GMT

#31

I think its great. You can use the unranked ladder as a practice system and the normal ladder with a 'tournament/competetive feeling'. Gonna be good :D

wunir

United Kingdom13 Posts

May 11 2012 00:32 GMT

#32

It would benefit those of us who are switching race and try random build orders. But it's going to be a cheese-fest.

canikizu

4860 Posts

May 11 2012 00:35 GMT

#33

On May 11 2012 08:57 imMUTAble787 wrote:
People that weren't going to ladder to begin with still won't. It's time to stop going out of the way to cator to casuals. They've already proven that they will not stick with the game. They can just turn on a stream and watch someone with the courage to click the orange button.

There're a chunk of people like that, yes. But there're also a lot of people who don't want to ladder because of anxiety, race switch, build order trial, and there're people who just have casual impulse, people who hate to take the game seriously,..... It's not really a psychological thing or whatnot. It's a business decision. Blizzard wants to make 'unranked matchmaking' a selling point for HotS, if there're 10,15% of people buy that selling point, then it is worth putting that in.

alpinefpOPP

United States134 Posts

May 11 2012 00:38 GMT

#34

I really dont see a problem with the unranked system, i have a feeling everyone who consistently ladders will continue to do so, and thos who dont might have a new reason to play some 1v1s

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

May 11 2012 00:40 GMT

#35

What is it about being ranked that scares people so?

Kazahk

United States385 Posts

May 11 2012 00:41 GMT

#36

On May 11 2012 09:06 Luepert wrote:
This will be a hell hole of utter cheese.
At least that's what I'm going to do

That's exactly what I was thinking...
I'm scared now

skunk_works

United States109 Posts

May 11 2012 00:48 GMT

#37

So whats the difference between clicking "search for unranked match" or "search for ranked match"? You get points for one and not the other? Its still the exact same game 1v1. I still cannot understand why people are scared of "the ladder".

Snidgel

Sweden54 Posts

May 11 2012 00:50 GMT

#38

ladder is practise anyways. it's not like you win anything cept the points when you win a game. You got thousands of games to play and a few in the beginning to learn the new units and strats are equal to if you would try new builds or strats in wol. just a stupid thing they're implementing and they should waste less time on that and spend more time on useful things that we actually need.

Darknat

United States122 Posts

May 11 2012 00:54 GMT

#39

I say delay it only if it delays HotS. I'm tired of waiting to play my favorite Starcraft hero.

m1rk3

Canada412 Posts

May 11 2012 00:55 GMT

#40

they should introduce unranked ladder with no visible wins and losses. They should also put wins and losses visible for laddering before they took losses away.