09-19-2005, 10:41 PM
When Blizzard first announced the Honor system, the webpage stated that about 5% of a realm's population would be able to reach Rank 11 or higher after a few months stabilized it.
Fast forward to a few months, and people recently started complaining that the numbers were much, much lower. What did Blizzard do? They changed the webpage to say 1.4%. A firestorm overtook the PvP forums over the weekend, and spilled over to the General forums. Now, there is a response from Caydiem (a real response, instead of the 10 or so "we're looking into its" given before):
Cryptic, but maybe the 5% will be seen someday.
Fast forward to a few months, and people recently started complaining that the numbers were much, much lower. What did Blizzard do? They changed the webpage to say 1.4%. A firestorm overtook the PvP forums over the weekend, and spilled over to the General forums. Now, there is a response from Caydiem (a real response, instead of the 10 or so "we're looking into its" given before):
Quote: All right, folks, I've just spoken with the developers on the situation with the mysterious 1.4%.
The original 5% projection was based on the assumption that players perform at the same level consistently, which, as you all know, isn't normally the case.
Now, the change to the web page wasn't requested by the developers, but rather by one of the testers, who was going off more specific, recent data. The change was made, and thus sparked all this confusion.
Here's the important bit of what I learned, however...
Due to the fact that players are not performing as consistently as previously estimated, the developers currently plan on widening the rank percentages somewhat.
Cryptic, but maybe the 5% will be seen someday.
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