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#Dreampool: Old ladder maps return for Season 4 - Page 33

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Jett.Jack.Alvir
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada2250 Posts
September 24 2014 21:50 GMT
#641
On September 25 2014 04:44 Zzzapper wrote:
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On September 25 2014 04:39 [PkF] Wire wrote:
On September 25 2014 04:33 opisska wrote:
I finally realized how bogus is the "but what about the pros" argument. NONE of the old maps will ever get used in serious competition again, no matter whether it is Steppes of War or Ohana. The ladder pool with any of these maps is equally useless for anyone to seriously practice.

So, with this argument out of the way, we can only weep that Steppes is the only really weird map in the actual poll. It could have been useless and funny, but you will have it useless and boring, as you all wish.


You realize some players (who are the best on their teams or don't have any, don't have many connections, etc) get their main practice from ladder ?

Just to play devil's advocate, couldn't that actually help them by forcing them to find practice partners which will probably be useful in the long run?

You seem to think finding a practice partner is easy. Of course it will help to have a practice partner, but as Wire mentioned, many pros rely on the ladder for training; I believe Bomber trains exclusively on the ladder.
Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
September 24 2014 21:51 GMT
#642
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My votes
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 24 2014 21:52 GMT
#643
On September 25 2014 06:51 Darkhorse wrote:
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My votes

Darkhorse, I'm disappointed. While you seem to have picked every single map that had gold bases in the middle except Antiga Shipyard, you did not pick Steppes of War, or even Daybreak.
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Darkhorse
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States23455 Posts
September 24 2014 21:53 GMT
#644
On September 25 2014 06:52 The_Templar wrote:
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On September 25 2014 06:51 Darkhorse wrote:
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My votes

Darkhorse, I'm disappointed. While you seem to have picked every single map that had gold bases in the middle except Antiga Shipyard, you did not pick Steppes of War, or even Daybreak.

I only had seven votes TT
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SigmaoctanusIV
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States3313 Posts
September 24 2014 21:55 GMT
#645
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
September 24 2014 21:55 GMT
#646
On September 25 2014 06:53 Darkhorse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2014 06:52 The_Templar wrote:
On September 25 2014 06:51 Darkhorse wrote:
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[image loading]


My votes

Darkhorse, I'm disappointed. While you seem to have picked every single map that had gold bases in the middle except Antiga Shipyard, you did not pick Steppes of War, or even Daybreak.

I only had seven votes TT

Change Shakuras Plateau into Steppes of War and you have a perfect pool.
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Gold bases woohoo!
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jax1492
Profile Joined November 2009
United States1632 Posts
November 23 2014 03:09 GMT
#647
i don't see this helping anyone get motivated to play ladder.
Lumi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1612 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-23 03:56:02
November 23 2014 03:53 GMT
#648
Yeah, it seems to be going as miserably as everyone who gave two shits about the balance of the game could see coming from a mile away. In particular, the pros want nothing to do with it. Tournaments are opting out of it in favor of the last season. They're just alienating devoted players to try to bring back some casuals, who won't stick around. The cheesers who can't ever handle losing or aspiring to play a better overall game of sc are the only ones really enjoying this. It was a lame attempt to get people back and giving a shit about SC2 just in time for an LotV announcement which was itself rife with half-baked concepts and 180 degree reversals on positions they had kept on fan favorite issues like dealing with forcefields, having lurkers, buffing carriers. They're just trying to sell boxes and the dreampool was just an indication of how much they actually care about balance or their pro players, by contrast to what little sales they think they can squeak out by throwing those concerns out of the window for one stab at nostalgia to get the hype train in motion one last time, because it's their last chance to make money off of the game.

So yeah, I wouldn't think that they don't know what they've done and how people would experience it. Blizzard is a business. Fanboys are determined to forget that and be optimistic in ways that could only be enabled by naivete. Confirmation biases are powerful, until you kill them off and take one honest look around XD

I will poop my pants and eat it if Blizzard ever begins to acknowledge that this was a bad idea. They are notoriously uncritical of their own mistakes, and simultaneously obsessed with maintaining a mere image of competence and caring. That's why they only ever /sometimes/ look like the companies who /always/ look like the great companies they really are.
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brickrd
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States4894 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-23 04:22:36
November 23 2014 04:21 GMT
#649
it was a good idea and i'm enjoying it

only thing they should have done was probably give people a way to opt out, maybe make the dreampool unranked only or something like that. but it was a fantastic concept. the maps aren't my 100% ideal, but it's still cool for sure
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sM.Zik
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2548 Posts
November 23 2014 04:24 GMT
#650
I'm not, it sucks and I'm waiting for the next season before starting to play again more often.. i'm playing 2v2s these days lol.
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brickrd
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States4894 Posts
November 23 2014 05:18 GMT
#651
On November 23 2014 12:09 jax1492 wrote:
i don't see this helping anyone get motivated to play ladder.

then why did i immediately play a bunch of old WOL players using old WOL builds when the season started?
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Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15961 Posts
November 23 2014 11:46 GMT
#652
I have to say, its a good feeling to play on the old maps again.
But after a few games on them it becomes very boring to have ONLY old maps in the pool.
I think it would be a better solution to have 1 old map in each mappool instead of only old maps in one pool.
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Enigmasc
Profile Joined February 2014
United Kingdom147 Posts
November 23 2014 11:55 GMT
#653
im really not feeling this pool tbh, i only started playing sc2 in like very late wol (2012ish) so i dont even get the nostalgic feels from most of these maps except daybreak cloud kingdom etc
and even then my favourite maps (from when i started playing seriously) were things like whirlwind and star station

iv been offracing more than iv been mainracing tbh, these maps kinda demand the sort of zerg i dont really like to play so yeah
thankfully ittl be a shorter season!
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
November 23 2014 11:58 GMT
#654
This is a disgusting season
Less is more.
rotta
Profile Joined December 2011
5588 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-23 12:37:41
November 23 2014 12:36 GMT
#655
I'm loving it, but it's going to get real old real soon I fear. 1 vintage map per season sounds like a good idea. Maybe some BW revamps as well?
don't wall off against random
PepsiMaxxxx
Profile Joined October 2012
Sweden5452 Posts
November 23 2014 12:58 GMT
#656
I usually play 400 games per season. This season I have played 10... And I don't think I'll play anymore.
BonitiilloO
Profile Joined June 2013
Dominican Republic622 Posts
November 23 2014 13:01 GMT
#657
On November 23 2014 21:58 PepsiMaxxxx wrote:
I usually play 400 games per season. This season I have played 10... And I don't think I'll play anymore.



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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12399 Posts
November 23 2014 13:17 GMT
#658
I am having so much fun this season so far, so much cheese thrown to me :D
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
SatedSC2
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
England3012 Posts
November 23 2014 13:23 GMT
#659
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Dav1oN
Profile Joined January 2012
Ukraine3164 Posts
November 23 2014 13:46 GMT
#660
On November 23 2014 12:09 jax1492 wrote:
i don't see this helping anyone get motivated to play ladder.


This mappool motivated me to play heroes of the storm and only weekly online cups as zcup and go4. But ladder, no, thanks.
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