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EnderSword
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada669 Posts
May 12 2012 03:22 GMT
#121
I guess I just can't see why you can't play 'for fun' on the ladder. My second account is just for goofing off and doing silly stuff...but I just do it on the ladder and just don't worry about my rank.

Why does for fun have to be unranked?
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Frex
Profile Joined March 2012
Finland888 Posts
May 12 2012 21:21 GMT
#122
Yes.

It's not going drag huge amount of players away from ladder, since eventually unranked games will bore anyone, since when you keep playing them, your skills will increase, but your opponents skill level stays the same.

There won't be any fear for losing players from real ladder because of this feature.
Rassy
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2308 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-12 21:38:24
May 12 2012 21:37 GMT
#123
Isnt this basicly the same as the join custom melee game option now?
Thought you then also got matched against someone of similar mmr if available.
excellionx
Profile Joined December 2010
United States85 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-12 21:42:50
May 12 2012 21:41 GMT
#124
i would LOVE if this got implemented. A nice way for warming up and testing builds
gruff
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden2276 Posts
May 12 2012 21:44 GMT
#125
On May 12 2012 12:22 EnderSword wrote:
I guess I just can't see why you can't play 'for fun' on the ladder. My second account is just for goofing off and doing silly stuff...but I just do it on the ladder and just don't worry about my rank.

Why does for fun have to be unranked?

Some do care about their rank and it might prevent them from trying out other races or playing random. If playing unranked helps people enjoy the game, why not.
brainox
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany292 Posts
May 12 2012 21:53 GMT
#126
I dont know why people are so scared to play ranked. Unranked matchmaking will just split players and i hope that there are enough players in ranked matchmaking
FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
May 12 2012 21:58 GMT
#127
i hope they have a plan for this, but even if not, it will be hilarious to see, 80% of the games being not longer then 10 seconds, because everyone would leave till they have their map and their matchup they wanted.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
May 12 2012 21:59 GMT
#128
On May 11 2012 23:42 Stiluz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 23:18 gronnelg wrote:
On May 11 2012 19:01 Alaiz wrote:
This is a great idea, but i'm afraid about smurfs diamond/masters account who can go on lower leagues freely and play infinite unranked marches in order to roflstomp on bronzies. Then this unranked system would be completely useless for very low leagues, and even more stressful for bronzies to play against people who are potentially going to stomp on them...

I do think that these unranked matches should be only warm up, and can only be played 3 or 4 times a day... Well, what do you think guys?

I figured you would have two different MMRs: One for ladder, and one for the unranked.
Anyone knows anything about this?


I think the Blizzard post was pretty clear on this. You have your normal MMR in ladder. You will meet opponents in unranked based on your ladder MMR.

If they do it this way it will get abused badly. Someone can tank their ladder MMR and then play unranked all day and noob stomp for fun.
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
May 12 2012 22:05 GMT
#129
On May 13 2012 06:59 Mastermind wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 11 2012 23:42 Stiluz wrote:
On May 11 2012 23:18 gronnelg wrote:
On May 11 2012 19:01 Alaiz wrote:
This is a great idea, but i'm afraid about smurfs diamond/masters account who can go on lower leagues freely and play infinite unranked marches in order to roflstomp on bronzies. Then this unranked system would be completely useless for very low leagues, and even more stressful for bronzies to play against people who are potentially going to stomp on them...

I do think that these unranked matches should be only warm up, and can only be played 3 or 4 times a day... Well, what do you think guys?

I figured you would have two different MMRs: One for ladder, and one for the unranked.
Anyone knows anything about this?


I think the Blizzard post was pretty clear on this. You have your normal MMR in ladder. You will meet opponents in unranked based on your ladder MMR.

If they do it this way it will get abused badly. Someone can tank their ladder MMR and then play unranked all day and noob stomp for fun.


Honestly people are already able to do that; the average public custom game or obs game is mostly noobs, right?
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phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
May 12 2012 22:26 GMT
#130
It's fine, and I don't care too much. Give the people too scared to play a game (a theory I still don't understand) their own little world to play against other people too scared to play, why not? Doesn't seem to have much of a downside.
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