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Meanwhile in PvP people got their titles while admitting to wintrading in in-game chat, queuing into their own alt account, running it down mid with zero gear on and coincidentally playing their last 5-15 lobbies against the same player(s) griefing for them, etc. etc.
According to PC Gamer, Blizzard is reviewing the top 1% of Season 1 Mythic+ runs for paid boosts and will be sharing more with the community soon on the results and how they conducted the review.
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My thoughts on the new PvP season a few days into it.
I was shocked at the game balance last season, and how long it took for Blizzard to nerf or buff certain outliers - Some of which never even saw any hotfixes. We had a full AWC season where you were pretty much not able to play unless you played mage, and more specifically Mage + Rogue or Mage + WW.
The fact that I was shocked at this, yet still sit here surprised at how bad class balance seems now, says it all. Somehow it's gotten even worse. I have little faith this is going to get even remotely fixed, after Ion pretty much confirmed they need to grow the PvP playerbase before being able to justify allocating more resources to it.
It feels like we're playing one bugged patch after the other. The season has been out for 2 days and people are still getting the bug where you can't move your character after a Solo Shuffle round, and end up glued in place watching people kill your team for the remaining rounds.
It feels like no effort has been made to improve the reward structure and system at all. The forums are full of people who don't want to play this season because they're suddenly 500-1000 MMR lower and "can't get rewards". It's the same issue every season because Blizzard refuses to actually properly address the issue, and every time they add the band-aid MMR fix, people instantly get happy as they can get their rewards, instead of pushing for an actual change so this isn't a problem next season again. In other games, you can push through the rankings at any point in the season. Imagine if in League top players were stuck in Platinum until midway through the season, while everyone else was unable to get out of Bronze-Gold. There has to be a ranking system where you can get relevant rating/ranking BEFORE the end of a season. We should be able to hit 3000 early in the season, and it shouldn't magically get 20x easier to hit it towards the end because of some magical inflation that makes it exponentially easier.
I'm still facing the same people who have been wintrading every season the last few years. The same people who so blatantly wintraded last season for their titles, just waiting to get their rewards next week when Blizzard inevitably fails to ban 95%+ of them again. I'm still having lobbies where someone is griefing or just straight up doesn't want to play because it's a "boring matchup", as if playing in a game you queued up for is optional.
We're 2 days into the season and a lot of the people who were high last season can't even get queue pops because the MMR soft reset wasn't enough. This makes the game feel incredibly dead. The queues are very long and you can barely tell the new season just started. LFG is pretty much dead, as it hasn't gotten the attention or revamp that it has needed for a while now.
The game pace also feels incredibly slow. I realize we don't have full gear yet, but it's a problem if the game is unenjoyable the first many weeks of the season, as people will end up quitting and not come back. Another change I don't personally like is the longer DRs on CC, which I guess adds to the slower pacing of the game.
It truly feels like PvP is an afterthought and that it just isn't gonna change. Since the nerf to PvP iLvl in PvE after Shadowlands, it has been almost impossible to do content outside of PvP. This means that whenever cool new challenges come out, such as the ?? Nemesis boss, new Delve content, whatever solo content you may want to do, we have to either farm a bunch of PvE gear to play, or just not participate at all. This might sound troll to say, but remember how PvE players felt when they had to PvP for gear. The reason this is especially annoying this season is that you need 273 iLvl to queue up for LFR, the easiest raid difficulty. With the full available PvP gear this week, we're at around 270-271. Again, this may not sound like a big issue, but it becomes pretty annoying when the only way to get your 4p set bonus this early is from PvE - Which, keep in mind, we also need in PvP. It's either farm PvE gear on our alts to be able to do LFR/Normal, or wait till week 5 for 4p. I understand not being able to do the normal raid in PvP gear, but it feels incredibly troll to be locked out of LFR due to the PvP gear literally being THAT useless. Imagine the outrage if PvE players had to play PvP for early 4p.
It genuinely feels like WoW PvP is becoming this meme.
People are blatantly wintrading 100s of lobbies, even on stream. Even in the most severe and obvious cases, it takes weeks before they get banned, and then they pop up 1 day later again to ruin the ladder for weeks until another ban hits. 90% of them don't even get banned either.
Queueing up is a complete coinflip where there's a 30-50% chance to hit someone not playing the game legit, just to lose your rating and get put back into another 10-60 minute queue.
Is it really that far fetched of an idea to employ a single person to sit and watch streams or monitor high rated lobbies in the last two weeks of the season, and instantly ban the players running in without gear on or playing against their own alt accounts? If this happened, at least the GM could cancel out the lobbies immediately before they mess up the entire ladder.
For some reason it's accepted that the wintraders use the leaderboard as an "advertisement board" for their wintrades, and wintrade characters to the top of the ladder named "Dmforrating" etc.
For some reason it's accepted that people stream account plays while advertising wintrades in Solo Shuffle. What more proof does Blizzard need?
Every single day I receive at least 10-20 DMs from people I don't even know with recordings of incredibly obvious wintrades in Solo Shuffle and Blitz. A lot of the people are the same offenders who've been doing it for years. More and more people are starting to do it because they've seen the lack of enforcement.
Why do you allow the same 20-30 players to completely ruin the solo queue brackets you've added? @BlizzardCSEU_EN @BlizzardCS
If you're not going to even do the bare minimum to make sure people who wintrade or grief other players' games get banned, maybe it's time we reconsider if the solo queues should even exist in the current format?
Perhaps a solo queue straight into the 3v3 ladder, with a rating separate from your regular premade 3v3 rating, is the better choice here. It would also help make the game feel more active, as everyone would be playing the same bracket, instead of having brackets cannibalize each other in a part of the game that already has a dwindling playerbase?
Infernion retweeted
A streamer who has openly been doing accountplays on stream for years while advertising a boosting website is now streaming with a pinned message advertising wintrades on the same site.
The blatant neglect from Blizzard towards the PvP community is honestly getting embarrassing.
A streamer who has openly been doing accountplays on stream for years while advertising a boosting website is now streaming with a pinned message advertising wintrades on the same site.
The blatant neglect from Blizzard towards the PvP community is honestly getting embarrassing.
This is a player who's been wintrading for years with his friends. If Blizzard would just do the bare minimum of actually HWID banning people who are so clearly and without a doubt doing this, maybe it wouldn't be as widespread.
It's sad to hear that Blizzard needs a bigger PvP playerbase to "justify" spending more resources on it when years of neglect like this is partly to blame for the massive loss of players.
It's a mystery to me how declining Solo Shuffle queues still has no penalty.
A stacking deserter debuff would make it a lot harder for people to queue into their friends and wintrade.
Not that fun to click accept 20+ times before entering, just to have a very suspicious lobby.
Gladiator rating is now top 9.54% of the EU ladder.
This makes it equivalent to the old Rival title (top 10%). Rival is now 1800.
PvP needs an extra mount, similar to PvE's top 1% reward, so players have something to strive for and a reason to keep playing after reaching Glad.
2 hour queue just to get the wintraders again.
It's actually so disappointing Blizzard has been aware of these people wintrading and griefing 5+ lobbies a day for more than a month, and they're still not banned.
No one wants to play because of this. @BlizzardCSEU_EN
Literally 2 minutes later they're in another lobby.
It's beyond insane that a few people are allowed to hold the ladder hostage and ruin the game for everyone. High rated shuffle on EU is genuinely dead because no one wants to queue into this anymore.
