Some strange incentives

Starfury
Starfury Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
edited January 2014 in MPQ Suggestions and Feedback
I'm really confused about the thought processes behind the mechanics of the tournaments.

PVE events: The combination of rubberbanding and non-repeatable missions encourages you not to play the PVE events until shortly before the end of the event. (or until 9 hours before the event so you can replay the few repeatable missions)

PVP events: encouraging you to deliberately lose matches to lower your matchmaking ranking

Really, what was the last game that had you thinking: "Oh, I think I should throw some matches" or "Oh it's 2 p.m., I really shouldn't be playing until 5 p.m."

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  • mischiefmaker
    mischiefmaker Posts: 932
    To be fair, if you can complete all the missions in PvE, it actually doesn't make a difference as to whether you wait until the end or grind the whole time -- #1 in my main bracket was #1 almost the entire time and never out of the top 10, and I had the misfortune of getting into a sub event bracket with him where he was #1 the whole time as well.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    People keep on perpetuate the myth of play late in the PvE events. The fact is that it only matters to play late if you can only play once (then play as late as possible). Otherwise the guy who wins overall is still going to be the guy who played the most, unless that guy mysteriously decided to not do the last set of mission refreshes.
  • Starfury
    Starfury Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    Phantron wrote:
    People keep on perpetuate the myth of play late in the PvE events. The fact is that it only matters to play late if you can only play once (then play as late as possible). Otherwise the guy who wins overall is still going to be the guy who played the most, unless that guy mysteriously decided to not do the last set of mission refreshes.

    So this "myth" only applied to the event that went on for the entire last week? And even if it's only one in three events, does this make the whole thing any less absurd?

    I played through the first subevent (less the 3 last missions that required a specific hero) of The Hunt right when the event started. I was a top 900 finisher. The next time I did the same thing at the end of the event and got into the top 50. Must be real fun if you're living in a timezone where events end at 3 a.m.

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