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Dear Blizzard,
I have never made a game capable of filling stadiums with tens of thousands of spectators. I don't have 11 million players playing in a world I created. Nor do I have 2.5 billion dollars laying around in my bank account. I am simply one fan with an opinion I think you need to hear.
As a competitive StarCraft II player, I feel obliged to let you know that I find your current ladder system disappointing. I understand it is a work in progress and you have a million other things to work on, so I don't want to focus on the technical shortcomings. Instead I will consider only the changes that have already been made.
From the overall design of a segregated ladder and recent changes such as removing division numbers and taking away the ability for any player to create a uniquely identifiable name, it is obvious that you intend to obscure each player's global ranking information as much as possible. While your goal may be to let us all feel better about ourselves, I find it frustrating and condescending. I want to know how I stand compared to everyone, and as it turns out, I'm not alone.
Since I launched StarCraftRankings.com a little over a month ago, over 30,000 people have checked the rankings of themselves and their friends more than 500,000 times. My logs show that several hundred of those were even from your own office.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy writing my own ladder page for a game I love, but I think we'd all prefer that you just stop hiding information from your most dedicated fans in the first place.
An eternal fan,
Gibybo
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I have posted it on the front page of StarCraftRankings.com but I would appreciate some community support 
On Blizzard's forums: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25026573397&sid=5000
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On May 22 2010 19:00 Gibybo wrote:
As a self-appointed representative of competitive StarCraft II players,
stopped reading here
User was temp banned for this post.
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thats a shame because what followed was intelligent
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Awesome man, personal thanks from me for making that site btw I've certainly used it. Hopefully you can use the site to leverage your case and get some real attention. Real feels condescending by Blizzard to try and hide the global ratings.
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Signed a million times over.
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On May 22 2010 19:02 Crunchums wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2010 19:00 Gibybo wrote:
As a self-appointed representative of competitive StarCraft II players, stopped reading here
You shouldn't have, the point he makes about starcraftrankings.com is really valid.
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Nice letter. I really hope that blizzard totally changes battlenet. Leagues are okay but divisions are not. Let's hope they remove the division crap and add a nice ranking. I also hope that the facebook thing gets removed.
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On May 22 2010 19:02 Crunchums wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2010 19:00 Gibybo wrote:
As a self-appointed representative of competitive StarCraft II players, stopped reading here
You shouldn't have.
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I completely agree with you Gibybo.
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On May 22 2010 19:04 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Signed a million times over.
This.
/Signed
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On May 22 2010 19:02 Crunchums wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2010 19:00 Gibybo wrote:
As a self-appointed representative of competitive StarCraft II players, stopped reading here
That's unfortunate, I thought I made it clear with 'self-appointed' that I did not mean to claim I spoke for anyone else, although I think it is clear a lot of people agree with the message overall.
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Absolutely agreed. You never cease to amaze me, Gibybo. I feel the same way. You do a better job of explaining it than I would though >_<
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/signed sealed and sent to elven_z for playtesting...
Post on the official forums!
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On May 22 2010 19:09 Gibybo wrote:Show nested quote +On May 22 2010 19:02 Crunchums wrote:On May 22 2010 19:00 Gibybo wrote:
As a self-appointed representative of competitive StarCraft II players, stopped reading here That's unfortunate, I thought I made it clear with 'self-appointed' that I did not mean to claim I spoke for anyone else, although I think it is clear a lot of people agree with the message overall.
You should take out "self appointed". Instead of showing Bliz that you don't "mean to claim [you] spoke for anyone else", it seems more like you're being pretentious.
Besides that... I agree with your message.
Signed.
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I think you're right, I've modified the wording a little to better fit the tone I was going for.
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You sure as hell have my support.
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i dont mind the divisions as i actually find them to be kinda fun. But there should be someway of finding out if im better ranked than my friends. Mb just remove the bonus pool. then the score would be even for all the divisons.
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*signed and agreed in full.
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