EPTWoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid.
Blizzard Discontinues GrandMaster League in WoL - Page 7
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ETisME
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WoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid. | ||
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Salivanth
Australia1071 Posts
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Mikantoray
United States25 Posts
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liberate71
Australia10252 Posts
On June 08 2013 11:49 ETisME wrote: Not sure why they need to remove it, seems unnecessary imo. WoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid. At least the WoL ladder is still up. Other game companies would have just shut it down | ||
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Nagas
Lithuania19 Posts
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shin_toss
Philippines2589 Posts
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TRaFFiC
Canada1448 Posts
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
On June 08 2013 11:49 ETisME wrote: Not sure why they need to remove it, seems unnecessary imo. WoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid. | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
On June 08 2013 11:49 ETisME wrote: Not sure why they need to remove it, seems unnecessary imo. WoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid. GM is for the best players, not diamond kids playing a dead game trying to impress their friends with a gm border. | ||
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FCReverie
Australia103 Posts
On June 08 2013 11:49 ETisME wrote: Not sure why they need to remove it, seems unnecessary imo. WoL is still a game and had its own ladder system, even with the imbalance status shouldn't make gm invalid. Because mid masters and lower players just go on WoL and play it to get GM and get a badge on their profile. | ||
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MrMotionPicture
United States4327 Posts
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Arrtee
Australia102 Posts
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KillerofGods
United States34 Posts
On June 08 2013 10:05 xAdra wrote: In this context, your idea of "fun" is to have your achievements possess some prestige, am I right? By allowing people in WoL to get grandmasters, it lowers the prestige of the HotS GM league, since there is no clear distinction between the two. So you are depriving the majority, not to mention the more important group, from having their fun. Seems like people will complain no matter what blizzard does. Well this will be my last post I don't want to be spamming or anything and I don't have anything more to add but I think they should simply just divide the profile leagues between the two to make it even more obvious than it already is (you know by looking in their career history and seeing when they got GM) that would be a nice compromise. Also to all the people laughing at the youtube videos well sure WoL GM isn't anything amazing anymore, but think of it this way what games now-a-days give you that much joy anymore? Sure its not the same as HotS GM but its not like it hurts you at all and for all the people saying it disgraces past WoL GM's 1. Its a video game (an awesome one but still a video game) 2. That's what career history is for 3. Dividing the player profile and border to what your current expansion level is at would fix this with an option to switch back and forth 4. With 3 in place this doesn't hurt you at all after all they can still go to WoL and get masters if they wanted to my way is much more efficient way of fixing things and shouldn't be too much trouble to code/change the UI. So if it doesn't hurt you at all just live and let live. (In case your wondering I am not one of the people who try to get GM for a fancy icon on my profile. I just believe in what I said before live and let live it doesn't bother you so why bother them? Unless someone being happy bothers you than you have bigger problems than that.) http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/2586985/1/KillerofGods/ Only plat but you don't see me trying to get fake masters | ||
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Ocbs
France42 Posts
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Ry2D2
United States429 Posts
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 … In case you haven't noticed, HotS > WoL in just about every way. WoL doesn't deserve a GM league when the best players are all on HotS now anyways. WoL gm has just become a giant joke of an accomplishment in the modern era and pales in comparison to acheiving HotS gm. | ||
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dartoo
India2889 Posts
On June 08 2013 15:43 Ocbs wrote: Well, congrats to lIlIlIlIlI and lIlIlIlIlI, our champions from EU and KOR respectively. lol It's understandable, no point in having it there anymore, I wonder how many people even play wol at this point. | ||
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OSM.OneManArmy
United States509 Posts
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Fus
Sweden1112 Posts
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Nimix
France1809 Posts
It was stupid to be able to get the gm border/career finish on a dead game with nobody remotely good actually still playing it. Too bad it took them 2 seasons to realize it as usual. Only good thing about playing WoL is the old right click animation. WHY DID YOU CHANGE THAT BLIZZARD? The old little arrows were so much better than the new big ugly ones  | ||
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VArsovskiSC
Macedonia563 Posts
The funny thing though is - the game became balanced AS the game was FADING AWAY.. The last season the games in WoL were relatively good.. but Before that Terran were OP for almost a year and a half, and Zerg was OP for about 6 months right after that..  Good move for Blizzard though - WoL CAN work as a "training" game, but still - all the major events happen in HotS now and happy for that | ||
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