Battlegrounds Rating Reset & New Rating System Announcement Soon
Blizzard just announced that next week, all players' ratings will reset to 0 and a new rating system will be deployed - more details will be shared soon.
⚠️ Battlegrounds Rating Reset Incoming ⚠️
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) September 24, 2020
Prepare for a fresh field! Next week, all players' Battlegrounds rating will reset to 0 to make way for a new rating system. More details coming soon! 👀 pic.twitter.com/4E1teTuwgc
It might be a point if there was any sign, just one single indicator, that the main game is being seriously neglected in some way. But instead, Constructed is getting more attention than ever. We still get 3 expansions per year, we get more balance patches than ever (with buffs even!), we got a new ladder system, a new class, and other things in the making (like the Classic and Reward overhaul), and all this happened just after Battlegrounds launched.
Complain about Demon Hunter all you want, but Skull of Gul'dan was nerfed in less than 48 hours, and several other cards followed a few weeks/months later. The Caverns Below wasn't nerfed for 3 months, and the final nerf happened a year later. Patches the Pirate wasn't nerfed for over a year. Pirate Warrior was in the (Standard) meta for about 9 months!
Whatever you think of all these things, anyone complaining about BG "distracting" the developers from the "main game", or actually thinking that Hearthstone would be better without BG, either has a really bad memory, or just no idea how the game was all the years before. Whatever you think is not going to happen anymore because of BG, it didn't happen the 5 previous years either.
Pretty standard for the Hearthstone community. Just like we always jump to the conclusion that they are trying to make the game harder for F2P players because "that's just like Blizzard" despite the fact that the game has been made easier and easier for F2P players down the years.
Ignore the evidence, ignore history, just circlejerk.
BG was the worst thing ever happen to Hearthstone, it is one of the main reasons I lost my interest into the game.
for the devs it's one of the only things keeping people playing
This is a lie. In previous posts they said that although the rating resets, your hidden MMR doesn't. It's NOT A RESET if they're not resetting the metric they use for matchmaking!
Then what is it? You got 7000 rating and then you got 0. What happen?
Behind the scenes, they continue using 7000 rating for matchmaking.
It was not about what are they using. If you make something equal to starting value it's reset.
This it should have been it's own game and not connected to Hearthstone. Gotta wonder how bad Hearthstone was doing if Blizzard's best idea to bring back players was add an entirely different game to it. I can just imagine the conversation. 1st Exec: "Hey the HS playerbase is dwindling fast cause our stupid ideas are driving players away left and right. Instead of fixing HS, let's add a completely different game to it, so our 2 small playerbases look like 1 decent sized playerbase." 2nd Exec: "Brilliant"
Standard hearthstone.
1. Brand new experience, probably the first CCG ever
2. not RNG related at all
3. Makes it easy to f2p because rewards are incredible.
4. im totally cereal
BG is not rng related at all? Have you played it?
I love BG but saying "it's not rng related" is like saying "it's not math related."
He’s being sarcastic
1. might be boring for you
2. doesn't have to be a brand new thing from concept to mechanics in order to be successful good and enjoyable
3. the rng is something some people like and some dislike, but most like it
4. for most games the rewards are purely simbolic, like skins or ranks, the real reward is winning
5. ok
I mean BG is actually a unique Idea for the auto chess genre. Because its autochess in a card game.
Teamfight tactics on the other hand unoriginal.
I would prefer that Blizzard announce these announcements of announcements ahead of time, so that I have time to prepare to read the announcement of the announcement.
Don't worry. It says "soon", so you have plenty of time :))
You know, they said they wanted to change the rating system, revealed their idea, got bad feedback, they brush it off and add new heroes, one of which encourages you to level and another which produces lag and can get one poggo the whole game and turn it into a 70/70, they're both very powerful and Jandice gets 1st 30% of the time she's played, now people are begging them to nerf Jandice, Maiev and LK and some to rework Omu and what do they do?
"We are happy to announce that we're changing the rating system, that's it."
And now I bet they'll do that and depending on the feedback they'll change those 4 problematic heroes and the lag if possible.
my best rating was 10k813 3 months ago. Was stuck at 10k since the last month of dragons, anywyas it was a fun run, let's see what the future would show us
Why are you content with the changes and the games? they suck