Infraction for soverpowerd: Whining

• Relwin · 07/11/08, 2:31 PM

Post: Season 4 PvP Changes
User: soverpowerd
Infraction: Whining
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Because you can't put together a successful team to get you a choice of items, means the way a portion of the game functions is inherently unfair?

If you are currently having fun not participating in arenas due to a notion that you should always win, then please, by all means, keep your commentary on it to yourself.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by whysoez

I am inclined to agree with what I'm seeing so far. It may be that the ratings have not 'evened out' yet, but I'm definitely leaning toward the idea of 1700 being the new 1850-2000. As much as I hate to admit, it seems like a lot of the fears of lower-rated people just dropping out (or maybe they can't break 1600?) are actually coming to fruition. I can see both sides of the implications here, while it means that it will be harder to achieve the better gear, it also means those that have it have truly earned it.

I'm not going to say I'm representative of anyone, but I basically quit doing arenas in Season 3 when the information that the system would be worsening from what it was in S3 was announced.

The ratings requirements on the S3 gear were a major slap in the face to start with, but I figured I'd give it a go since I had a 2k+ rated team in S2. However, the team that made it to 2k+ broke up and I was left looking for new partners. I moved around, got to ~1800 with several teams, but either had people quit or had teams backslide down from there. Back in March/April I realized I wasn't even going to be getting a good enough rating to get the S3 weapon. Soon after this I saw what blizzard was planning to do in S4 and I was done. I haven't played an arena game in months, and couldn't be happier. Arenas were making me a miserable person.

When arenas were something fun for 5 friends to do together to eventually get some gear is when blizzard had things right. I don't pay $15 a month to be in some kind of e-sport. I also don't pay $15 a month to be the stepping stone/punching bag for other teams to get their weapons/shoulders.

I figured that S4 would probably end up making a lot more people feel like I do thanks to blizzard cutting out the support system that even allowed people to balloon their ratings so absurdly high to start with. Teams that played below 1500 and people that sold teams were what was artificially inflating the ratings so absurdly high, and now blizzard cut the knees out from the system. What incentive is there for someone to play at below 1600 rating? The difference between S2 and S3 isn't much, and if you know you're never getting over 1600 even with S3 gear why bother?