First off, I want to establish that free time to many consumers is important and has value. No further explanation req'd.
This season sucks butts. And, honestly the next season will probably be similar. In the bigger picture though, future seasons will be better as a result of this season. At least, I think so.
What I want to know is, if Blizzard anticipated that players find extreme exploits and "work-arounds" to playing the game as intended (which any responsible designer should have), why aren't initial seasons shorter? Plenty of players probably stopped taking this season seriously (if they even participated after hearing about the 1.5 hour ding to 70), and are just waiting for the next season to roll around.
Do you think Seasons should be shorter just for now, until we have a more stable system to compete in? If yes, what time frame would be appropriate?
Would a Rollback be the most consumer friendly approach? Does it matter enough what this season's outcome is to warrant that?
I find this question most interesting: should an "exploit"/game design flaw be left in the game until the end of season to allow all players a chance to be on equal terms, provided it doesn't make the game unplayable?
Should everyone just continue to "take one for the team" and ride it out for entire quarters at a time (keeping in mind that time has value)?
Exploiting players capitalize on these exploits way more when the bridges they got to cross were burned behind them, so to speak. They're actually being rewarded at this point. Long seasons are pointless at this stage, because I already know that the exploiters won. I don't need to wait 3 whole months to figure that out. (Edit: I would point out out for clarity that leaving exploits in game would mean that Paragon Experience carried over to non season would have to be adjusted to avoid PLVL 9000+ players by the end of the year. Fair enough...)
I speak for myself when I say that I would have an easier time shrugging off a crappy exploit knowing that the next season is already right around the corner.
The small exploits hardly changed anything or at all. Sure they got some paragon EXP gain... not much? Highest season char is like 540ish? im almost 430 just spamming T6 rifts and 35+ GRs I don't care if someone is 100+ ahead means shit to me.
Also, the leveling "exploit", pft lol, if anything it was better. No one wants to level for 4 hours or w/e it takes in a 4 man group spamming bounties on w/e level you can do it on the real way. People only care about max level. Sure you could go for one of the first for max level, but since everyone(if you didn't your bad basically) used the miners gold and other few to level it was still a race(kinda RNG but idc about leveling first)
Also, ya paragon exp getting passed to non season won't put people that high. The EXP from 500-700 is more than 1-450 or something around that. It would be the same if they spent all the time they did during season just playing non season its no different. You just feel like you did more starting from fresh.
This season sucks butts. And, honestly the next season will probably be similar. In the bigger picture though, future seasons will be better as a result of this season. At least, I think so.
What I want to know is, if Blizzard anticipated that players find extreme exploits and "work-arounds" to playing the game as intended (which any responsible designer should have), why aren't initial seasons shorter? Plenty of players probably stopped taking this season seriously (if they even participated after hearing about the 1.5 hour ding to 70), and are just waiting for the next season to roll around.
I speak for myself when I say that I would have an easier time shrugging off a crappy exploit knowing that the next season is already right around the corner.
Ideas?
Also, the leveling "exploit", pft lol, if anything it was better. No one wants to level for 4 hours or w/e it takes in a 4 man group spamming bounties on w/e level you can do it on the real way. People only care about max level. Sure you could go for one of the first for max level, but since everyone(if you didn't your bad basically) used the miners gold and other few to level it was still a race(kinda RNG but idc about leveling first)
Also, ya paragon exp getting passed to non season won't put people that high. The EXP from 500-700 is more than 1-450 or something around that. It would be the same if they spent all the time they did during season just playing non season its no different. You just feel like you did more starting from fresh.