The Issue nobody talks about
Hello everyone,
I am here to bring up a subject that has been on my mind and probably in the mind of others for a while or even a long time.
MMR dropping.
I find this one of the most dangerous and menacing activities happening in pvp at the moment. The reason why is because it has a huge negative impact on the arena scene. And I have to be specific in order for everyone to understand:
1.- MMR dropping creates a huge problem when it comes to win or lose rating.
2.-MMR dropping is the main cause of why new players get discouraged to play arenas, rather than the human racial and BiS players generic excuse.
3.-MMR dropping makes the players who play legit lose interest in PvP and move to other areas of the game and eventually the queue and the activity in arenas gets severely damaged.
4.-MMR dropping abuse gives the false impression that Warmane is being selective with the punishments, I'm not saying it's the case, I'm just saying that it's weird that even though 80% of the teams in the top 50 page drop MMR, nobody is getting punished so far.
Now that a few points that came to my mind have been exposed I'll proceed with practical explanations in order to make it easier to understand:
-We have HolyPower69 (Ret pal) and Gankster666 (Combat rogue):
Both are exclusive PvE players, although they like to q BG from time to time to usually test the new gear they have obtained on the last raid. But today they have decided that they want to give a try to the arenas everybody talks about; The pinnacle of PvP. They make a team and queue.
They're both in the pre-arena room, getting buffs and joking around on discord, the gates open, their hearts start to beat faster but suddenly, they are awarded victors of the encounter. Both paladins in the opposing team seem to have left the arena before it begun or not even entered at all. They are awarded with 0 points, and the opposing team loses 0 points.
They keep queueing and the same thing happens 6 times in a row until ultimately they of course remember the name of the paladins.
After that they manage to beat some teams and climb up to 1400 rating while this keeps happening from time to time, they don't quite understand but they simply don't care, they don't lose rating so they just keep going.
The day after, they q again and they're faced against a Warrior and a Hpala. Both extremely geared and experienced and have no problem beating the **** of our little fellow heroes, so they lose, but not only do they lose, they lose 18 points. The rogue who has good memory remembers that this paladin's name is the same as the paladin from the team that never joined the arena. They keep the q and keep losing a few times in a row. Back at 1200 rating they fight against the mighty warrior and paladin and somehow they manage to win. After the match despite showing pretty much the same team rating, they win ZERO. 0 points awarded after beating the nemesis of their little adventure.
After experiencing this every week, our two friends eventually decide that arenas is not their thing and they leave the arena dream if not forever, atleast for a long time.
After this small but realistic tale, I would like to beg the Warmane staff to start taking a more serious and merciless attitude against teams that break the rules every season, that don't play fairly, that ruin the PvP scene and that their only purpose is to feed off casual players for their own ego gain. Winning under unfair circumstances, using exploits and deluding themselves into thinking that they are good. No dear PvP (gods), you are not good, you are scum. You are a bunch of tryhard losers that can't take a defeat, you are a bunch of scoundrels that have to resort to exploits and in some cases even scripts to protect your fragile egos from being destroyed. I don't recognize any scripter or MMR dropper as a gladiator and neither should Warmane.
My suggestion after all of this biblical post is to beg the warmane staff to take action at the end of each season, analyze 1 by 1 the teams match history, a feature that everybody has at hand and that it should be used for this purpose, taking serious action against MMR droppers. Maybe putting a GM specifically to look into atleast the most prominent teams and apply justice so that everybody can have fun experiencing anger, joy, tears and frustration with the security that those emotions are a result of skill nor a result of exploits and scripts.
Thank you
