Infinity Season *Updated (9/19/17)

Justice Jacks said:

This change that you and the forumites have pushed for all but assures you won't have a chance again.  I hope it was worth it.  I know I am appreciating it.  Ironically, this is far better a system for many that are against it, and will be far worse for those that were, and are still, advocating for it.  

A fully developed 4 star roster just went from being able to earn a minimum of 75 CP a week in PVP to 30.  Meanwhile, the Haves continue to get everything they were previously getting, albeit in a different manner.  The Haves that previously transitioned into 5-star land will continue to pull away from the HaveNots that are stuck in 4-star land or below. 

As to Pheregas' original comment, I had an alliance mate hit 400 wins in the first event of this mini-season.  Many transitioned players had all their season rewards with 12+hrs left on the first event.  40 wins is easy for the people that were already top scorers.  And is hard for the smaller rosters, but it should be hard as you're getting a cover that was more difficult to achieve (based on the complaints here) under the prior meta.  And that's why D3 didn't tweak that number at all from the first to second test. 

In short, a perfect example of be careful what you wish for.

I have a very well-developed 4* roster. I have a single champed 5, and a few other 5s in the 10-12 cover range. I have never hit 1200 in a PVP event. I can usually hit the cover at 900, albeit often with the annoyance of constant hits by nothing but champed Panthos teams during the final push once I hit about 800. I play in slice 5, because it's the only slice that fits halfway decently into my schedule, and I maybe have broken 1000 points one time in my years of playing.

I don't coordinate hops, like the vast, vast majority of people that play the game, and also like most people, because I'm not coordinating every match, I can't queue up nothing but 60+ point matches every single time. I understand that those who currently can run past 900 in less than 20 matches would be annoyed by this change, but that isn't a typical example of a normal playstyle. Moving the CP from 1200 to placement only affects those who are coasting to that easy 1200 in the first place.

When arguments like "why are people complaining about scoring points? I got to 1500 points and barely made top 50 in my PVP bracket" gets used as a justification for why the system is fine, it shows exactly how much the system was being manipulated by the group that wanted to do so. Now, the group that drove scores up and up together can continue to do so, or split up the band and go out into the big scary solo wilderness and try and grab the placement CP. Or they can continue to shoot for big PVP scores together, and go cutthroat among themselves for the top 10. 

I know it seems as simple to those who know the system as "just get Line, join the busiest slices, and work with everyone else to coast past 1000 points easy". Not everyone can do that, but most people, if they really feel like it, can knock out 40 PVP matches in two and a half days. As someone with a roster that can cruise to top 10 in PVE in most events, yet has never gotten to 1200 in a single PVP event, I can speak for some, and say, no, the PVP system wasn't perfect for everyone just because their roster may be strong.