Originally Posted by Broncojohnny
This illustrates what people have said repeatedly. Casual arena players aren't going to que to get beat without some incentive. The entire system will suffer for it. I know a lot of people who play casually, on the order of 15 players or so. I can't find one who says he/she will participate in season 4. This should concern people, instead it is met with elitist nonsense about "scrubs" and anecdotal evidence as to how every class can make the ratings because it happens once in a while.
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the problem is that, to use your term, the people who say they won't participate is anecdotal evidence as well. just because people say something doesn't make it true. this is true with any statistic of course, but it's especially true in WoW and probably other MMO's. when things don't go the way people want them to, they complain or give up, which is counter-intuitive to the purpose of competition and most games in general. if something is too hard, that should give you incentive to get better because it's challenging. nearly every 1850/2k+ rated player will tell you that they started with low ratings and it took them awhile to improve. when i first started doing 2's/3's in s3 (previously i had only done s1, i skipped most of s2) i noticed how challenging it was in the low brackets. the 1500s were the new 1700s. while it may be discouraging to people who excel in BG's and automatically assume that they can apply that experience to Arena and succeed, the fact is that Arena is an entirely different beast and provides a challenge that BG's do not, and most likely cannot. when BG's came, it killed world pvp. Arena's will most likely never replace BG's, but it's certainly the way that true, competitive PVP is heading.
in short, give it a shot. maybe you don't like playing the game competitively in PVP, in which case I would say that PVP is probably not for you. people should not be able to have access to such high-end gear by simply showing up. even before the honor system changed, you had to be competitively doing BG's to get access to better gear. they altered that, and then came the age of welfare epics. so they're changing it back (in a different way) to make that gear competitively achievable.