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Audacity17
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Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
For some reason, when the fellow above was talking about cheaters deserving to win for all their hard work, all I could think of was James T. Kirk saying "I don't believe in the no-win scenario"....thanks for the lol.
Broken_Kayfabe  1 star
Posts: 248
Registered: 2002-2-16 01:05:01
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
TruthyID posted:
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
If Blizzard only rewarded the people who actually deserved the rewards the game would collapse to 100k subscribers overnight.



You seriously believe this drivel?

Ultimately Blizzard only "rewards" one behavior, paying for a subscription. That feeling of superiority that beating scripted encounters give you is just to keep you forking over the money. At the end of the day you're just another rat hitting the feeder bar like the rest of us, you just do it with more finesse, congratulations.



Just when I think I've seen the dumbest the human race can get, I meet you.

 

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Five more minutes then I'm done!
I've been saying that to myself since
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Zero_Washu  2 stars
Posts: 290
Registered: 2001-9-28 05:17:03
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
If Blizzard only rewarded the people who actually deserved the rewards the game would collapse to 100k subscribers overnight.



But who defines deserving?

 

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Quazimortal  4 stars
Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
I deserve it all.

 

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Ferrydust  3 stars
Title: Iron Chef Jennifer
Posts: 938
Registered: 2002-9-4 20:32:54
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
So anyway... A few friends and I decided to see what was going on with this so we jumped on our lowbie alts and faced this team which was bringing the rogue up:



The rogue is 2441 already because his teammates have dropped their mmrs to 1429 and 447 (lol) which makes their team mmr 1439. So they are playing low teams and the rogue is in full 372 gear now.

We didn't face them again so we got another noobie team and faced them:


You can see that the rogue has now moved up to 2562 by facing teams in the 1550's.

and then finally.


The rogue is now at 2631 and still climbing by facing lowbie teams.

His partners will have to go drop their mmrs some more so he doesn't have to risk playing anyone above 1550.

Now the way MMR and team rating works is: You do not lose any team rating for losing a game if you are not near your mmr. So the rogue will get to some astronomical mmr and then pair up with his 2 friends who have also used this system and hope to be able to beat lowbie teams to sky rocket their team rating up to their mmr.

 

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I, on the other hand, prefer a command-line system 'cause i'm so hardcore
/north /north *You encounter an [Avatar of the god Set]!*
/cast sheild *sheild spell unavailable*
/csat shield *csat: unknown command*
*[Avatar of Set] beheads [Peasant]*
Broken_Kayfabe  1 star
Posts: 248
Registered: 2002-2-16 01:05:01
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
Of course if everyone did this, all those teams in the 1500s would be the same quality as that rogue!

So the clear message is, exploit early exploit often.

 

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Thanks, but it's been fun
Five more minutes then I'm done!
I've been saying that to myself since
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Ferrydust  3 stars
Title: Iron Chef Jennifer
Posts: 938
Registered: 2002-9-4 20:32:54
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
OMG typical blizzard response to this!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2723732

PvP
Arenas


The individual Matchmaking Rating column has been removed from the Arena scoreboard.

This way we can't see what is going on. They have consistently made changes that make it impossible to keep other players in check.

 

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I, on the other hand, prefer a command-line system 'cause i'm so hardcore
/north /north *You encounter an [Avatar of the god Set]!*
/cast sheild *sheild spell unavailable*
/csat shield *csat: unknown command*
*[Avatar of Set] beheads [Peasant]*
Ugh_Lancelot  3 stars
Title: Ooo...bouncy!
Posts: 766
Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Arena - People cheating their way to the top
Ferrydust posted:
OMG typical blizzard response to this!

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2723732

PvP
Arenas


The individual Matchmaking Rating column has been removed from the Arena scoreboard.

This way we can't see what is going on. They have consistently made changes that make it impossible to keep other players in check.


/waves hands
These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along...

 

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