Posted May 5th, 2008 by Shayalyn
The how is actually surprisingly easy. There are a few ways, however the most common seems to be as follows. They generally have a fully geared 3v3 or 5v5 team (depending on which you are buying) that starts off being very highly rated. They then log on and throw many matches to drop their rating through the floor. The do this (when possible) to another of their (or their friends) teams to raise their rating. Once the rating is low enough to be in an easy bracket for their gear, they start a fresh team and put up a notice of a team for sale.
Posted Monday, May 5, 2008 by Ragingbully
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Originally Posted by Miralyn
Another aspect of this abuse, and goldfarmers and other such ills, is that it keeps Blizzard from working on real content. Instead they have to focus on fixing issues arising from people skirting and cheating the system. It's very disappointing.
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Posted Monday, May 5, 2008 by Hordesbane
I haven't looked but is there really that big a difference between say season 1 gear and season 3 gear that this would be worth the time and hassle? I would think since you could get season 1 gear from running BG's you would start there and that would make it harder for gear to be deciding factor. If there is such a difference that skill can't make up for maybe a change needs to be made there as well. Otherwise aren't you running into the same problem as when twinked out premades would farm t...
Posted Tuesday, May 6, 2008 by phil28
To a certain extent, there was Arena Rating selling going on in Season 2 as well, but this was mainly to get Gladiator titles and the faster flying mounts that went with it. This didn't effect the players in the lower ratings as much, since the Gladiator titles are usually acquired in the 2250+ rating range.
Season 3 brought something into the game that magnified the point/rating selling by a huge amount - Personal Rating requirements for weapons and shoulders. Gladiator players will ref...
Posted Tuesday, May 6, 2008 by Xerin
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Originally Posted by phil28
I keep hearing that Blizzard wants to achieve esports sponsorship based on their Arena system, but I'm not sure that a system that promotes gear imbalances can ever be labelled an 'esport' (and I hate the term esport). Surely the games should be decided by player skill/coordination - any gear superiority works against this.
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Posted Monday, May 5, 2008 by Miralyn
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While I am not the biggest fan of arenas the fact is people will do what is necessary to skirt the system. Apparently pride went out the door
. People want the "i win" button.
I think the difference between running someone through an instance versus an arena team is that in the arena team another team is affected by your decision....whereas is anyone really hurt if you get a run through on Deadmines? Okay maybe the high level people you run with when you do get to max level.
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