Seems more like this is an exploitable change, and while I applaud it. It’ll give you more problems than you wanted right now, simply because you aren’t engaging enough with your community. Idk if you realize this but you don’t have to evolve this game alone. What better way to fix problems than actually listening an talking to your playerbase, as opppsed to month later updates and silent megathreads. You don’t have to come to us with a plan, you can just be there to listen on a livestream, or forums, and that’s how you’ll grow, but the second you separate creator and player, you lose what’s most important, customer satisfaction and company betterment.
Yah but only to players with an SR above 3750.
All players below have no skill to have an opinion on Balance Nerfs or Buffs.
But for the rest its okay, PLats can say things about the avoid player feature or stuff like that but pls don’t hear them balance wise.
But the word ‘Playerbase’ refers to all the players, not just the players who are a high enough rank to be considered knowledgeable. I have a lot of friends who are in plat but don’t know what a ‘Nerf’ is.
so your saying that blizzard should balance just for the top players of the game? that is the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard, pander towards a minority in the community, and ignore a majority of your player base (gold-plat) and either way you wouldn’t know if people at that rank need avoid player if you haven’t been there. (also it’s typical people only thinking that they’re own feedback is all that matters, considering your basically the same exact sr you mentioned)
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Are you joking here or not I can’t tell
Just because a player doesn’t have a high rank doesn’t mean they aren’t intelligent on the game. I’m in bronze and I like to think I have a basic understanding on balance in the higher ranks
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If something isn’t balanced at the highest levels, it isn’t balanced at all.
if something isn’t balanced in 5/7 ranks of the game then it isn’t balanced at all.
Hasn’t this specific community been asking for an avoid option for the past few months? I’m fairly certain that change was made because of community feedback. I don’t understand what it is exactly that you have a problem with here.
Not engaging enough? This week we had daily posts from devs and they are often answering on the forum. I don’t know what you want, a game tailored only to your needs?
We’re all playing the same game here, though. You’d have to create an entirely different game or bracket or something for lower-rank players to play in.
Also, if you balanced around low-rank players, the mechanics would be absolutely broken at high levels and nobody would rank up without exploiting that. Then, your high-rank players would be people that did that and your game would be garbage.
and it’s the same if you balance around high-ranks, except it would be that no body in lower rank could rank up unless they are effectively 2 tiers above the sr they are currently at, balancing at just one rank ruins the game for everyone else, so balance everywhere not just people “3750” and above (quoting original guy to mention this)
I don’t know what to tell you, then. I solo queued from plat to GM in two seasons by just being better than the other team more often than I wasn’t. That’s really all it takes. I got a little better every game. Learn from higher-level players instead of complaining about the system and you’ll become one of them.
It’s limited to only avoiding 2 players at a time.