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Blizzard Discontinues GrandMaster League in WoL - Page 2

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Wafflelisk
Profile Joined October 2011
Canada1061 Posts
June 07 2013 20:15 GMT
#21
Noo, now I'll never make GM
Waffles > Pancakes
Ragoo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2773 Posts
June 07 2013 20:17 GMT
#22
On June 08 2013 04:58 Prplppleatr wrote:
I always laugh when I see someone who got GM in WoL during HOTS anyway...some people just play for shinies, cosmetics simply aren't my thing, but to each their own


As long as people play WoL there would inevitably have been Grandmaster players, not necessarily because they were playing for "shinies" but just cos they were the best players remaining in WoL.
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awakenx
Profile Joined May 2011
United States341 Posts
June 07 2013 20:19 GMT
#23
Good change, although it doesn't really change anything; might just stop another way for a low masters/high dia troll to say "im gm im good"
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Shin_Gouki
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States313 Posts
June 07 2013 20:20 GMT
#24
Thank god. It's annoying to see someone with a GM portrait and it ends up being from WoL. Especially when they player is all like "errmagerrdd, I hit gm."
Death comes in many forms
Spec
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Taiwan931 Posts
June 07 2013 20:20 GMT
#25
You could just have more space in your profile. But yes, GM WoL no longer needed or meaningful.
Eye for an eye make the world go blind - Gandhi
Cereb
Profile Joined November 2011
Denmark3388 Posts
June 07 2013 20:22 GMT
#26
Damn! And I have my last exam the 10th of june! I don't think I can make GM in one day in WoL before it's all done ;p

In all seriousness, this confused the crap out of me the first time i faced someone who had GM in WoL. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that SC2 postgame score showed him as masters, but my SC2gears showed him as GM, so good change! =p
"Until the very very top in almost anything, all that matters is how much work you put in. The only problem is most people can't work hard even at things they do enjoy, much less things they don't have a real passion for. -Greg "IdrA" Fields
shiroiusagi
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
SoCal, USA3955 Posts
June 07 2013 20:22 GMT
#27
Makes sense for Blizz to discontinue it for WoL. And for poll I just have to accidentally click disapprove... TT I APPROVE!
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Msr
Profile Joined March 2011
Korea (South)495 Posts
June 07 2013 20:23 GMT
#28
Could have just made it show your highest hots league when playing hots and highest wol when playing wol. Stupid and waste of time change, should be focused on something important?
BamBam
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
745 Posts
June 07 2013 20:24 GMT
#29
On June 08 2013 05:20 Shin_Gouki wrote:
Thank god. It's annoying to see someone with a GM portrait and it ends up being from WoL. Especially when they player is all like "errmagerrdd, I hit gm."


And why is that an issue?

Honestly I feel blizzard is doing nothing but shunning those who still have WOL and have not moved onto HOTS. At the very least they could of found some way to make a distinction between HOTS GM and WOL GM instead of just scrapping the whole league. Rather pathetic move.
"two is way better than twice as one" - artosis
Serinox
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany5224 Posts
June 07 2013 20:27 GMT
#30
Approve. Sometimes I click on the Liberty GrandMaster list and it's almost funny what the WoL GM ladder has degenerated too. We don't need that anymore imo.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
June 07 2013 20:28 GMT
#31
Wait, I we supposed to be internet offended about this? I can't tell. How outraged, disgusted and disappointed are we supposed to be?
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Taefox
Profile Joined March 2010
1533 Posts
June 07 2013 20:32 GMT
#32
On June 08 2013 05:23 Msr wrote:
Could have just made it show your highest hots league when playing hots and highest wol when playing wol. Stupid and waste of time change, should be focused on something important?

turning gm off need some mouse clicks, why is it waste of time ? making it show highest league for each ones is much more complex and tons of time lmao
@taefoxy
Radicalness
Profile Joined September 2011
United States271 Posts
June 07 2013 20:33 GMT
#33
Agree with this.

Unless they changed Wol GM to "semi-grandmasters" or something. All the pros are in hots so Wol GM has lost a lot of prestige. Making masters can still be considered a great accomplishment though.

Just look at sc2ranks.com to see if you're in the top 200.
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RifleCow
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada637 Posts
June 07 2013 20:35 GMT
#34
On June 08 2013 05:32 Porishan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 05:23 Msr wrote:
Could have just made it show your highest hots league when playing hots and highest wol when playing wol. Stupid and waste of time change, should be focused on something important?

turning gm off need some mouse clicks, why is it waste of time ? making it show highest league for each ones is much more complex and tons of time lmao


It's bad because blizzard is evil, they are forcing you to buy hots, anything that doesn't pertain to what I want is a waste of time, etc.
hohoho
AnomalySC2
Profile Joined August 2012
United States2073 Posts
June 07 2013 20:36 GMT
#35
Makes sense to me.
Kyuhyuck
Profile Joined April 2013
Korea (South)40 Posts
June 07 2013 20:39 GMT
#36
Finally the wol gm bragging is over. Thanks blizz
You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief you can't have it.
Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
June 07 2013 20:47 GMT
#37
On June 08 2013 05:07 Biolunar wrote:
In my opinion a really dickish move. Now they are treating WoL as a 2nd class game which does not deserve a GM league. What a bunch of ass hats …

._. the game died on HotS release day. How are they asshats for discontinuing something that is not necessary to keep up with? tbh, it kind of annoyed me to see that people still went into tryhard mode and got gm on WoL JUST to look like they're good.
ok
SgtCoDFish
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom1520 Posts
June 07 2013 20:48 GMT
#38
And there goes any chance I might have had of making GM... not that I'd have spent any time playing WoL anyway

Good change IMO
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
June 07 2013 20:48 GMT
#39
there was a group of fake EG players on korean server that got kr wol gm. gg them
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Epamynondas
Profile Joined September 2012
387 Posts
June 07 2013 20:51 GMT
#40
It sounds pretty pointless to completely remove it though? Just make the GM icon from WoL have some winged theme and all confusion should be solved, without removing the motivation to be recognized among the best of a given region.

Quite silly IMO.
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