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Ertu
Greece686 Posts
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TrainFX
United States469 Posts
this man was a prophet. | ||
NexUmbra
Scotland3776 Posts
http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/349908/1/CraDieN/ladder/ | ||
Copymizer
Denmark2077 Posts
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
Seriously... portraits, achievements, divisions, glossy league icons. This is all so futile. They are not even a measure of skill. | ||
neo_sporin
United States516 Posts
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TemplarCo.
Mexico2870 Posts
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sansalvador
Austria308 Posts
On March 22 2011 07:45 fabiano wrote: Who cares about those stupid league icons? Seriously... portraits, achievements, divisions, glossy league icons. This is all so futile. They are not even a measure of skill. It is for the lulz, as is gaming for 99% of people out there. | ||
samsonasu
United States14 Posts
If blizzard can give away a few pixels to get people to play more, I think it's good overall for the game. I've been playing too much minecraft and not enough starcraft for the last couple weeks and I dropped down to #7, so I'll definitely be out there on the ladder this week, hopefully beating up some people who are at least as rusty as I am. | ||
Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
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imareaver3
United States906 Posts
On March 22 2011 07:45 fabiano wrote: Who cares about those stupid league icons? Seriously... portraits, achievements, divisions, glossy league icons. This is all so futile. They are not even a measure of skill. I would disagree--a top 8 master's league icon is an indicator of considerable skill, and a top 16 grandmaster's league icon will be an indication of being a professional player of the highest caliber. For that matter, just being in the Grandmaster's league will be very prestigious; it's great to see Blizz finally implementing special in-game bonuses for the best players. | ||
BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On March 22 2011 07:53 imareaver3 wrote: I would disagree--a top 8 master's league icon is an indicator of considerable skill, and a top 16 grandmaster's league icon will be an indication of being a professional player of the highest caliber. For that matter, just being in the Grandmaster's league will be very prestigious; it's great to see Blizz finally implementing special in-game bonuses for the best players. did you read posts like On March 22 2011 07:12 aloT wrote: Top 8 in the highest masters division in the world is 4000 points, easily top 100 player. Top 8 in lowest masters division in the world is 3100. Would also like to know the reasoning behind this ? your mindset is exactly the result of blizzards confuse tactic. there will be people with that icon that are barely mid masters. there will be thousands of people better then them with a worse icon.and this only gets worse in lower leagues with division modifiers. it just annoys me that they not only keep promoting their totally irrelevant division ranks but also now give out shiny stuff for it. i understand the basic intention. and the intention is good. but there are ways to implement this without basing it on random division ranks. | ||
peekn
United States1152 Posts
Edit: 200th post yay! | ||
imareaver3
United States906 Posts
On March 22 2011 08:05 BeMannerDuPenner wrote: did you read posts like ? your mindset is exactly the result of blizzards confuse tactic. there will be people with that icon that are barely mid masters. there will be thousands of people better then them with a worse icon.and this only gets worse in lower leagues with division modifiers. it just annoys me that they not only keep promoting their totally irrelevant division ranks but also now give out shiny stuff for it. i understand the basic intention. and the intention is good. but there are ways to implement this without basing it on random division ranks. And you didn't my whole post: "A top 16 grandmaster's league icon will be an indication of being a professional player of the highest caliber." There's only one Grandmaster's division, and would be extraordinarily surprised if random scrubs could get to the top 16 of it--especially in Korea. While I agree that master's top 8 is somewhat random--though, even in the easiest divisions, you have to be pretty good to get it--grandmaster's top 16 will not be. And if we're looking towards how much prestige the system awards, we should look towards its highest prizes--a special decoration for the region's top 16, 50, 100, and 200 players--not one of the prizes in the middle. And while ladder might not be the best indication of skill even at that level, it still is one--and some reward should be given for doing well on it. | ||
Jochan
Poland1730 Posts
On March 22 2011 07:16 SDream wrote: Blue answered me: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2228179462?page=9#177 (about reset, patch and lock) + Show Spoiler + We're trying to track down the source of the info discrepancy, but as the contents of this forum post are actually the most recent, we believe it to be accurate. Patch/lock tomorrow, reset one week later. Hmm I saw it 30min ago, now it's gone. I guess even Blue's are confused with the whole lockdown/reset/promotion/patch/grand master thing Now again, I don't know what to think. | ||
imareaver3
United States906 Posts
On March 22 2011 08:14 Jochan wrote: Hmm I saw it 30min ago, now it's gone. I guess even Blue's are confused with the whole lockdown/reset/promotion/patch/grand master thing Now again, I don't know what to think. Blizz actually changed there original post to say one week instead of two about 15 minutes ago. Seems like a classic miscommunication. | ||
xspaceghostx
United States22 Posts
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Heraklitus
United States553 Posts
@Harry: It's only one week. Originally, we did plan on allowing you to have a full two weeks to play out your bonus pools, and ideally that's how long lock-out periods will be for seasons going forward. Season 1 ended up being about nine months, though, and in the hopes of simply not prolonging it any further, the lock was changed to one week. When we originally wrote this blog, we were still going forward with a two-week lock, which is why that information was originally reflected in the text. That was certainly our mistake, and we apologize for any confusion that may have been caused. | ||
swim224
Botswana368 Posts
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PartyBiscuit
Canada4525 Posts
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