Originally Posted by Siddown
I guess I'm just not sure when people think this mass exodus will occur. Do they think that the "real" 1200-1600 crowd have enough points saved up that they'll only play for one week to get their Epics then quit? I think it's a bit naive to think that everyone (and their alts) have tonnes of point saved up, but I guess we won't know until S4 actually starts. My reason for posting was just responding to the flawed logic that the entire system would see a decrease in points, that just won't happen.
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Why would you need to play even 1 week? You know if you've never broken 1500 in S3 that you're not going to in S4, so if you have your points saved, there's no need for you to play at all. Just buy your non-rated items and go back to doing whatever else you were doing. Obviously only time will tell how many quit. But if any significant percentage of the under 1500 people quit, it would have a definite effect on where your rating would be for a given skill level relative to where it was in S3. This could easily cause a cascading effect as teams that used to be over 1500 in S3 are now under 1500 in S4 realize they also have nothing to gain from the new system and also quit, and the process repeats itself. If only the really good teams are playing and it's a zero sum system with a 1500 average then the average really good team will be 1500.