Gradual Reduction in MF Effectiveness

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What is somewhat hard to believe is that Blizzard would make such a change without bothering to announce it.  The reason being that the announcement by itself would have an enormous impact on mf running even if it were not backed up by changes in the code.  This would not be a long-term solution to the problem obviously, as I think botters would quickly penetrate the deception.  However it does illustrate the counter-productivity of keeping such a change secret.

Indeed. The goal behind such a change would likely be one (or both) of two things:

1) reduction in repeated game creation that might be taxing on server resources.
2) a move towards making bots less desirable.

If you don't tell people about the change, then people are just going to keep using their bots and repeatedly making short-lived games for runs.

It reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies:

The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost . . . if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, ay?!

Perhaps they were keeping it a secret for Roper's birthday.... then he left.