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Blizzard Discontinues GrandMaster League in WoL - Page 7

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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12499 Posts
June 08 2013 02:49 GMT
#121
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.
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
June 08 2013 03:03 GMT
#122
Good change. I played someone with the GM logo today and was super-excited, thinking that I was playing my first GM ever. Was very disappointed to find out he was WoL GM.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
Mikantoray
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States25 Posts
June 08 2013 03:15 GMT
#123
I have a few days to get from plat to GM....time for some BL Infestor
gogo!
liberate71
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia10252 Posts
June 08 2013 04:00 GMT
#124
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
Minelord Stimfestor, also known as karma.
Nagas
Profile Joined July 2012
Lithuania19 Posts
June 08 2013 04:19 GMT
#125
the ones who wanted to become GM in wol already did that:D a bit too late.
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shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
June 08 2013 04:56 GMT
#126
i still can't make it to GM lol.. poor me.
AKMU / IU
TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
June 08 2013 05:13 GMT
#127
It was nice of blizz to leave it up for a while, but it's now irrelevant. WP Blizz.
2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
June 08 2013 05:14 GMT
#128
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
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
June 08 2013 05:14 GMT
#129
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
Profile Joined April 2013
Australia103 Posts
June 08 2013 05:34 GMT
#130
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.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
June 08 2013 05:36 GMT
#131
I haven't played WoL since HotS, so it doesn't really matter to me. (Not that I would be GM anyway...)
"Elvis Presley" | Ret was looking at my post in the GSL video by Artosis. | MMA told me I look like Juanfran while we shared an elevator with Scarlett
Arrtee
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia102 Posts
June 08 2013 06:18 GMT
#132
1337 votes for. lol
KillerofGods
Profile Joined September 2012
United States34 Posts
June 08 2013 06:25 GMT
#133
On June 08 2013 10:05 xAdra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2013 10:01 Velouria wrote:
its things like this that make me mad there is no grandmaster ffa and 2s etc, its just a game let some people have fun.

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
"insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - Albert Einstein
Ocbs
Profile Joined February 2012
France42 Posts
June 08 2013 06:43 GMT
#134
Well, congrats to lIlIlIlIlI and lIlIlIlIlI, our champions from EU and KOR respectively.
Ry2D2
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States429 Posts
June 08 2013 06:53 GMT
#135
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.
dartoo
Profile Joined May 2010
India2889 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-08 06:55:41
June 08 2013 06:55 GMT
#136
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.
OSM.OneManArmy
Profile Joined April 2011
United States509 Posts
June 08 2013 08:05 GMT
#137
haha about god damn time
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Fus
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1112 Posts
June 08 2013 08:11 GMT
#138
Great, but also take away the profile icons claimed by getting GM in WOL
NaNiwa | Innovation | Flash | DeMuslim ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nimix
Profile Joined October 2011
France1809 Posts
June 08 2013 08:12 GMT
#139
Seems that 110 people were still trying to get the border.
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
VArsovskiSC
Profile Joined July 2010
Macedonia563 Posts
June 08 2013 08:47 GMT
#140
Hahahaha.. didn't see this comming lol.. Never knew that ppl still played WoL.. I mean at least not those who prefer it..

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
Another world, another place, another universe, won the race.. :) ;) :P
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