TL Poll: How do you feel about the 5.0.16 PTR balance chan…

On June 12 2026 05:58 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

my sister-in-law loves the lore and the campaign. At best, she was a Gold level player in 1v1s. She preferred the slowed down game. She quit playing 1v1 after the LOTV expansion. She continued to play 2v2s with me in the WoL mode until Blizzard merged the different ladders 2v2s into 1.

i prefer the C&C "fast and fluid" feel that develops out of LotV's higher worker count. However, if they slow down the economy with this patch i'll give it a shot

On June 17 2026 14:00 mathphyswithvic wrote:


So regarding balance, I quite disagree.

People have the false impression that if winrate is ~50% it is a balanced game (yay mathematics, nay logic).

MMR system is designed in this way, so in no way having 50% winrate across the board implies it is a balanced game.

Let us do a gedankenexperiment (thought experiment), albeit exagerated:

Imagine this: every time you get over 50% winrate vs Terran, you face Maru, and quite suddenly the MMR SYSTEM humbles your over 50% winrate by making you lose (well what you expect vs Maru?), and return back to 50%.

While this experiment is purely imaginary, the idea stands. Unless you are top top or bottom bottom you will hover around 50% win rate and this is where majority of ladder hovers. Moreover, it is not indicative of game balance, at all.

edit1: p.s. in my opinion, the only metric that truly shows balance, is tournament wins.