Blizzard Says It Will “Address” Point Sellers
Since it was first taken advantage of, a wide complaint by players concerning the arena was teams getting a high rating, gathering all of the latest season gear, and then selling the team off to players in greens and blues for gold. From where I stand, it completely goes against the spirit in which arena pvp was designed.
In a recent interview at gamespy, however, Blizzard Developer Tom Chilton insinuated that the company will be taking action soon. You can read the whole interview here, but I’ll cut and post the meat of it for this post:
GameSpy: Have you looked internally at the distribution of players doing arenas on the live realm, separating those who are playing competitively with those selling teams or just tanking games to get gear?
Tom Chilton: We don’t really have any way of knowing that. We can’t distinguish what the intent of a given player is, whether they consider themselves to be competitive or whether they’re just doing it for the gear or whatever. Certainly as far as players who are trying to exploit the system through loopholes, we have some changes coming in a patch just a few weeks away where we’ll close a lot of those loopholes.
GameSpy: Are you able to talk about those changes yet?
Tom Chilton: Not just yet.
GameSpy: But we can expect the changes will be targeted at the point-selling teams.
Tom Chilton: Point selling, personal rating selling.
GameSpy: The two big things that players seem like they’re against are the point-selling teams, since you can face highly skilled and geared players at even the low ratings, and those who bring alts or friends on a team to tank a team so that they can then get a high personal rating on the real team.
Tom Chilton: Exactly, that’s what we’ll be addressing.
Personally, I’m elated to here this news. While I’m not what you would say a “hardcore” competitor in the arenas, I am a competitive person and firmly believe that the best players deserve to be at the top with the accolades, not whoever has the most money.
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