tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post3100736445081544651..comments2024-03-27T10:35:46.596+01:00Comments on Ravalation: SWTOR: No more ranked warzones?!Ravanelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-46875333303921112432013-08-23T13:51:43.763+02:002013-08-23T13:51:43.763+02:00I know what you mean, even though we have been wor...I know what you mean, even though we have been working on ours for shorter than that. I'm just playing all the ranked I can for as long as we can.Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-21113830799695564202013-08-23T05:43:15.009+02:002013-08-23T05:43:15.009+02:00I'm very upset that they are throwing 8v8 rank...I'm very upset that they are throwing 8v8 ranked out the window. After nearly a year my guild is just now finally getting a very solid team put together... now all that time and effort is for nothing. mitchhuphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06082931770749279419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-17763278243961742572013-08-16T13:07:10.786+02:002013-08-16T13:07:10.786+02:00I don't think Arenas would have to fear compet...I don't think Arenas would have to fear competition from ranked ("Not enough for a ranked team? Let's play some Arenas then."), since it's easier accessible and I think more people will play them. I'll definitely try some arenas out (not that we seem to have much choice in the matter), but just like you I'm more of an objective than a deathmatch person. I'm not against Arenas, but I think it's a shame to remove 8vs8 ranked altogether. It's not like it's hurting anyone.<br /><br />As for Farmville, it was an example referring to the general tendency of MMOs to make their game easier, more accessible for the masses. I wasn't referring to Arenas specifically, which I am sure will be challenges of themselves (but of a very different nature than current ranked warzones).Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-10330363090971655962013-08-16T08:42:44.181+02:002013-08-16T08:42:44.181+02:00I think Arenas will still be highly competitive, b...I think Arenas will still be highly competitive, but there's no getting away from the fact that team coordination is a lot easier when there's half the players on your team compared to Rated Warzones. The lack of objectives removes an additional level of strategy and coordination as well, so I'm a little worried that Arenas will feel like dumbed down ("more casual") Warzones.<br /><br />I will agree that individual skill (or lack thereof) will have a bigger impact with fewer players on the field, and some people like that, but Arenas will always feel one-dimensional compared to Warzones to me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01373217036166610926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-8645125249387515912013-08-16T01:16:09.694+02:002013-08-16T01:16:09.694+02:00A very well-written and impassioned rant on the su...A very well-written and impassioned rant on the subject! The only thing I strongly disagree with is the assertion that arenas are likely to be more casual. (Farmville? Really?) If anything I expect them to be more brutal and hardcore on the upper end, due to the smaller amount of players and shorter match duration, meaning that every little mistake will weigh all the heavier.<br /><br />I will admit that I don't really have a stake in this, as I've dabbled in ranked warzones but never got into them properly, so I personally won't miss them. I also really dislike death matches though and vastly prefer objective-based games, so I'm very put off by the idea of warzones and arenas sharing a single queue so I can't choose which one to get into?! But that's getting off topic...<br /><br />I do have to admit I can see why Bioware is removing 8v8 though - because the PvP community in this game is only so big, and they need to funnel people together as much as possible to make matches happen. The more they divide players between different match styles, the less likely the queues are to pop for any of them...Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.com