Originally Posted by Malan
I don't see how that's a bad thing at all.
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Depending how drastic the drop in point inflation is, you may have battlegroups where no teams can even break 2200 rating under non-collusive circumstances. If you go from a population of 4000 active 5v5 teams in Season 3 to 1500 active 5v5 teams in Season 4, you are going to have significantly lower available points in the system and therefore a trend of significantly lower ratings.
Another way to look at it: Blizzard has a target X percentage of arena players they want to see getting these rewards. That percentage is based on current participation. If less ability to get rewards leads to lower participation which leads to lower ratings overall, the real percentage of players getting these rewards will be much lower than Blizzard's intended percentage of players getting these rewards.