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On March 12 2013 03:16 Treehead wrote:
Just another example of Blizzard shamelessly catering to casuals. I personally feel offended by the amount of work I had to put into playing at the Gold level to have it just GIVEN to horrible players.
I will only quote half of your post, pretend you're being serious and call this the funniest thing I've read this year. 
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This seems quite legitimate as well as an interesting change. Thing is, a lot of Bronze accounts were basically just inactive, so I wonder whether much of Bronze will just soak up those inactive accounts or something.
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On March 12 2013 17:47 Aerisky wrote:
This seems quite legitimate as well as an interesting change. Thing is, a lot of Bronze accounts were basically just inactive, so I wonder whether much of Bronze will just soak up those inactive accounts or something. maybe being bronze will ultimately mean being inactive, for everyone active will be silver very fast.
On March 12 2013 18:03 MateShade wrote:
LOL. Yeah doesn't affect anything. Laughing at all the butt hurt gold players though. I can t tell the different between plat and lower anyway yeha, I don't think someone at goldlevel (where i'm horrifyingly close) should be worried about these things.
Doesn't this somewhat relate to the removal of copper league at the beginning of wol?
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On March 12 2013 02:17 algue wrote:
This means that bronze is worse than ever and that gold and silver players should'nt be proud of being out of bronze
Hahah so funny XD
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LOL. Yeah doesn't affect anything. Laughing at all the butt hurt gold players though. I can t tell the different between plat and lower anyway
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I feel like it's another Blizzard move to stop bad players from getting demotivated.
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So now it's gonna be "I'm stuck in high gold low diamond mmr but I'm basically mid-high plat because I beat a mid-low diamond player once!"
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Cool. Wonder if it will affect me considering im always starting and quitting but always seem to remain in plat, maybe i'll drop and it'll actually give me incentive to play xD
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Austria24422 Posts
Not gonna really affect me at all but I mean... why not. People get encouraged by promotion and rank. Being in "gold league" sounds way better than being in bronze. I guess it's mostly about catering to casuals but in this case I think it's a good idea. I just hope that gold doesn't get too wide a range of skill levels.
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I dont see any benefits or drawbacks here, really. It just shows that people are not too smart easily motivated and are being treated like that. You were a good silver player all the time? Daww, come on mate, we give you gold without you needing to improve.
Wat?
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it might make gold/silver players feel less worse when they defeat a bronze level player, knowing that their rank is not bronze.
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Too much people carrying the "Ladder Anxiety" on this thread.
When you see people whining about how much "work" he had to be gold.
Really? In this videogame?
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Hahahaha. Blizzard shouldn't have told us because now the people who are in Bronze won't be able to say that they have a FlasH level understanding of the game, but they just don't have the time to invest into improving their mechanics.
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On March 12 2013 18:18 Glurkenspurk wrote:
So now it's gonna be "I'm stuck in high gold low diamond mmr but I'm basically mid-high plat because I beat a mid-low diamond player once!"
xD. Heard that one so many times.
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its actually good for the new players.
have 2 friends that will pick up SC2 with hots soon , and hopefully this will make for a better starting experience and not as stressful.
one of them actually quit playing sc2 when he started to get owned in bronze league back in wol launch... we tend to forget theres people who doesnt know about build orders , probes & pylons and all the stuff we take for granted.
Im actually at WOL gold and i couldnt care less about having more dudes in my division , matchmaking still works by MMR so it doesnt matter your actual rank to find ppl to play at your lvl.
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On March 12 2013 17:55 Yorbon wrote:
Doesn't this somewhat relate to the removal of copper league at the beginning of wol?
Not really. The Copper League only existed in the first part of the WoL beta. It got removed at the same time the Diamond League was added (before then, Platinum was the highest). So effectively everyone moved up one league (Copper -> Bronze, ..., Platinum -> Diamond).
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
I support using normal distributions for almost everything so I like this change.
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On March 12 2013 19:40 Rannasha wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2013 17:55 Yorbon wrote:
Doesn't this somewhat relate to the removal of copper league at the beginning of wol?
Not really. The Copper League only existed in the first part of the WoL beta. It got removed at the same time the Diamond League was added (before then, Platinum was the highest). So effectively everyone moved up one league (Copper -> Bronze, ..., Platinum -> Diamond).
Remove bronze, open up master for 20% of the players, and GM for about 2-5%. Introduce a new "Gosu" (or something) league above GM that takes the best 100 players from the server.
Now THAT would change how the ladder works. Certainly would bring my motivation back.
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On March 12 2013 02:18 Kasu wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2013 02:13 bennedik wrote:
I think you mean "less" players stuck in bronze? "Fewer", if we're being pedantic 
I like to think it was a clever joke about how people stuck in bronze are lesser in terms of skill
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btw is there anything beyond diamond yet? i havent seen anybody higher than platin
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