Don't understand rating requirements

[Stonecastle-herod]

@Zinqf-herod

I would say this change affects all players of all ratings. Lower rated players would simply not play and this would remove most of the lower percentile from the game, thus lowering the overall MMR of the competition, thus making things harder for everyone.

@Stonecastle-herod

I’ve posted extensively on the negative feedback loop that rating requirements will inflict on the MMR pyramid. A health pyramid needs a wide base, a wide foundation. You NEED all of those absolutely atrocious players at the bottom. You need the keyboard turning clickers in the 1500s. It’s necessary. Without them the entire pyramid collapses down by that same amount. If the real mouth-breathing players look at a 2050 requirement for a weapon and go “screw that, I’m out”, that collapses the pyramid. If 40% of the prospective participants bail because they believe the reward is unobtainable, the entire bracket collapses on itself. This forces the previous 2050 players down to 1600 and, again, makes the reward unobtainable for THEM, too. Now another 30% of the bottom of the pyramid leaves. Eventually, you end up with the retail problem of 1700 being gladiator level.

This is why I believe it is imperative that the requirements for the weapons at least appear to be within reach of the average moron. The carrot needs to be grazing the lips of the horses or else why bother? If you hang the carrot so far away they can barely see it, they won’t even try. 2050 is probably a-carrot-too-far.

But…

@Stonecastle-herod

This change will kill participation, yes. But for the wrong reasons. It will kill participation because people are being dumb.

Right now there is a gas shortage in my state. The fuel availability only decreased by 17% as the effected pipeline was 1 of 5 that feed my state. So why is there a 90% shortage on fuel? Because people overreacted and did dumb things like hoarding it. If people acted rationally there would be no fuel shortage. 17% isn’t enough to cause a crisis. The crisis is being caused by people overreacting irrationally.

It’s the same thing here. If 500,000 1300-rated players swear off arena because of the weapon rating change, it will collapse the MMR pyramid. But they were never getting weapons much before the season ended anyway. So it’s a stupid, infantile overreaction that is going to ruin things for everyone.

It’s nice, at this point in the discussion I don’t really have to type anything. I can just copy/paste from my increasingly large list of responses.