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 Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:13 am
According to Nethaera, a community manager on the Blizzard Starcraft 2 forums, the length of ladder seasons are to become more standardized beginning with the fourth season. Unless decided otherwise (as there's some call in the forums for seasons to be three months instead of two) each ladder season will last a total of two months before rolling into the next one.
Nethaera Since introducing the ladder season lock and roll process we’ve continued to monitor the length of the seasons and our previous desire to see seasons last around 3-4 months. After gathering data for several seasons now we’ve come to the conclusion that shortening the seasons will better match how most people are playing the game, and support a more dynamic, rewarding, and vibrant ladder experience. Beginning with season 4, we’re looking for each ladder season to last around 2 months. We’ll be providing further updates regarding the roll to season 4 in the coming weeks.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3229387002
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:20 am
Interesting. I wonder how they came to the conclusion of, "shortening the seasons will better match how most people are playing the game, and support a more dynamic, rewarding, and vibrant ladder experience. "
If they posted it in their actual topic forgive me, didn't look at it =/
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 11:25 am
Onos Interesting. I wonder how they came to the conclusion of, "shortening the seasons will better match how most people are playing the game, and support a more dynamic, rewarding, and vibrant ladder experience. " If they posted it in their actual topic forgive me, didn't look at it =/
Daxxarri Players have fairly consistently tended to exhibit more activity during the first eight weeks of a season. It's not unreasonable to conclude from that pattern that a shorter season will also lead to a more dynamic season, since a greater number of players are likely to be active.
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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:33 pm
Immortal Nobody Onos Interesting. I wonder how they came to the conclusion of, "shortening the seasons will better match how most people are playing the game, and support a more dynamic, rewarding, and vibrant ladder experience. " If they posted it in their actual topic forgive me, didn't look at it =/
Daxxarri Players have fairly consistently tended to exhibit more activity during the first eight weeks of a season. It's not unreasonable to conclude from that pattern that a shorter season will also lead to a more dynamic season, since a greater number of players are likely to be active. Well, thanks for clearing that up. I've been pretty pre-occupied lately, and was too lazy to actually read the thread. =/
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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:08 pm
Nice to see some uniformity. I would have thought they would be perfectly even time periods from the start!
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