Why is it still based off games won and not games played?
“BUT MEOW PEOPLE WILL INSTANTLY THROW!”
Heroes of the Storm has a “arcade” equivalent with games played, not games won. No one throws there. In my many, many games played in that game’s version of a ‘arcade’ I’ve ran across one guy throwing and it was only because he got into a argument with some other guy.
This idea that people will instanly start throwing like absolutely crazy the milisecond it becomes ‘games played’ and not ‘games won’ is silly.
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The most effective way to get arcade boxes is through FFA cause it’s easy to cheese it and win to get in the top 4, but if you try any other game mode (with the exception of 3v3) it becomes extremely painful to do.
I just play FFA, gg ez lootbox farm. Just don’t play Baguette or Moira in there pls.
Ya guys are missing the point
Anyone can get lootboxes, its not that hard
But the experience could be improved immensely and be made much more fun and less tryhard if it was just turned into ‘games played’ instead of games won
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I cry whenever there’s a Moira/Baguette
Since matchmaker is allegedly 50% win chance, or as close as possible, make it 18 games played with boxes every 6. On average, same number of games played and won but without any unnecessary pressure. It is supposed to be game modes where you can relax and do different things, after all.
Just make sure to spray the Moira and tbag the Baguette when you kill them.
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Don’t worry, you don’t even need to tell me to do it
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It is an awful experience. I still don’t understand why mystery heroes allows hero stacking, since total mayhem is the mode specifically designed for hero stacking.
I don’t understand why we get 3 lootboxes only also per week via that system and not more.
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That’s actually kinda true.
Nobody throws in HotS arcade, even though it’s always been 2 or 3 games played to win your weekly lootbox.
As a tank or healer player it’s all I really have, Moira that is.
I’m sorry. 
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Hots rounds are about 20 minutes each which is why its only 3 games each
Yeah, games played (start to finish, no network shenanigans to farm faster) would be better. Also total time played is acceptable to me too.
I will say though that I’m in the honeymoon phase with No Limits right now so I’m not too bothered.
I agree, i would like to chill in arcade, but cant, every mode in arcade is far more stressing for me than qp or even comp
FFA are full of cheese, mystery heroes are random and other modes are tryharding crap
I would like to get “half” of a win when losing so it takes 2 losses to get a win, so it would still reward you instead of having 10 lose streak and getting nothing.
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Right. That’s not my point.
My point is that people indeed do not throw in HotS arcade, which is pretty surprising, or perhaps unsurprising.
Its a good thing if people try to win.
I wish it would be changed to games played just so that the lootbox farmers could chill out a bit. Some of them get really toxic when they’re losing…
I would love it if they changed it to games played.
I personally don’t really enjoy any of the arcade game modes much anymore. Mystery Heroes makes me rage when the enemy team is all tanks and we have four healers and two dps. Those kinds of games feel completely un-winable unless you can get your team to focus down each tank one by one.
It used to be my go-to mode when I did arcade early on but now I just can’t stand it. The only time I really bother with arcade mode is during events to up my lootboxes every week.
Difference in playerbases tbh.
Remember the genji and D.Va skins?
A LOT, were throwing. Probably over 50%. Same thing would happen from people who think they shouldn’t be ““forced”” to play arcade.
It ought to be moved to quickplay. Why is there any reward for playing arcade? That just forces tryhards and uber casuals at each other, ruining the whole point of the arcade.
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