Originally Posted by Endoscient
What is wrong with it? It is just the same as 2 skilled friends helping out a not as good friend. Except you are paying them to be your friend.
How would you stop it? You won those games fair and square. You might not have pulled your weight on your team, but you won the games anyway. Your team has the rating that they deserve.
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Exactly. This sort of point selling is incredibly hard to combat, but also takes much more time, effort and skill on the part of the people doing the selling. It is much harder to level up a new team effectively going in as 2.5v3, since the buyer can hardly be expected to pull their own weight, as opposed to playing with three sellers, and then letting the buyers play a few games afterwards.
All told, this will hurt the point selling that takes just an hour or two to reach a very high rating, and just selling the team or letting people get in three games per week, but won't hurt the type of selling that can take multiple days of grinding, and will severely limit the maximum attainable rating. Not to mention this will be, for example with a 3v3, two people selling points to one buyer, instead of three people selling a higher amount of points for less time spent to three buyers.
I must say, I'm quite impressed with all of the changes Blizzard has made to the Arena system. It's not perfect, but it's a vast improvement over the last three seasons.