Exactly but more specifically, it's my "oh so humble opinion" as I originally stated. :)
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How many games do you think it would take for a 1400's SKILL team to tank a 2k RATED team? ;)
It's hard to know for sure but if you make the assumption that the purchased team is always facing a team of the same rating, then they'll lose 16 points per game or 160 points per week if they lose their minimum 10 games. That would take 'em a few weeks to drop back down to the ~1400 range. In that time they've gained 822 points at the end of the first week (rating now 1840), 548 points at the end of the second week (rating now 1680), and 366 points at the end of the third week (rating now 1520). That's 1736 points "purchased" in 3 weeks assuming they lose 30 games in a row and never lose to higher ranked teams (meaning they lose less points).
At this point they buy another 2K team and start the 3 week cycle all over again with the money they grinded out from dailies since they didn't have to spend much time in the Arena since they already bought their points. :)
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They very quickly go where they belong -- so, in essence, they can pay an exorbant amount of money to buy a new team each week, or get their buddies to help them relevel their ratings back up so they oh-just-might-maybe not fail so miserably the next week?
Teams don't drop from 2K to 1400 in a week unless they are dumb enough to play more than 10 games (losing them all), it's more like 3 which can earn a 5v5 team a considerable amount of purchased arena points.
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2k rating purchased team comes up against a 1600's team and fails? How many points do you think they'll lose? ;)
In 5v5 they'll lose 29.09 points in a 2000 vs 1600 game. Worst possible loss of points per game is 32 so if they buy a 2K team they'll lose a maximum of 320 points per week unless they are dumb enough to play more than 10 games. :) So instead of it taking 3-4 weeks to get back down to 1400, it'll take 2. Meanwhile they are still "earning" points they aren't earning at all, but instead purchased.
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In this way, I think it's fair. If they want to spend their money on a higher rated team just so they can tank the ratings each week and maybe come out a few points further than they would have in the 1300's bracket, it's their money. If they deserve to lose, they will.
The same can be said for people who buy gold .. it's their money, but what happens when it breaks the whole environment? Also it's much more than "a few points" better than 1300's teams.
Also teams have to be built from 1500 to be sold which means there is a lot of 2K+ skilled players in the 1500-2000 brackets to "farm" their teams up with their full S3 gear, just so they can sell the team. How is that fair to the "legitimate" teams trying to actually compete at the ~1650 rating becuase that's where their skill level puts them? It's not and if battlegrounds has tought us anything, being rolled and honor/points farmed is not fun at all and that's what team selling creates, a system where the "legitimate" teams are farmed for the purposes of leveling up a team to sell to others.
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This reminds me of... "I don't care if Blizzard says it's ok... multiboxing is cheating"
Just like buying a spot in a BT raid doesn't make the gear you got from it "legitimate", so does buying points/teams does not make the gear that results "legitimate".
The problem is people use the PvP gear gained from buying points/teams to hinder others in PvP (since gear still matters as much if not more than skill these days), while the BT epics someone rocks out in Shatt doesn't hurt others enjoyment of the game in the slightest.
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There is some hurt involved, and I agree. However, I'm hesitant to say that it will go away in 2.4. 2k rated teams are still going to re-make teams and end up with a brand new 1500's rated team that they have to level back up into their appropriate bracket.
But it'll be much harder for people to do this since when they remake a 1500 team after selling their previous 2K team, that 1500 team will be matched against other 2K teams right away since the personal rating of the people who leveled up the first team to sell is still 2K. Leveling up multiple teams each week just to sell will become exponentially harder due to the personal ratings change.
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It's a problem, for sure -- but banning people for wanting to get the most points per week in a LEGITIMATE fashion isn't the right way to do it.
You feel purchased points are legitimate, I do not. We will agree to disagree on this one. :)
Also if it's "a problem, for sure" and people exploit that problem for their own gain, doesn't that fall under the TOS guidelines of not exploiting a flaw in the game's design? :)
