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100ms is kinda more than comfortable for many

There's rules and terms of service. No one is above them. Just because Happy is Wunderkin doesn't mean he can skirt past these principles. He's involved in something with rules, rules must apply. It seems entirely moot in the first place. If the king truly wants his throne he should earn it, not do some bullshit to allow them to maintain prestige while others claw to get to where he is. Tl:Dr Happy is lazy and is avoiding playing with others to keep his win to loss ratio/mmr high, and thus his precious ego and middling earnings.

@@lucamckenn5932 Why are you telling me "there's rules and terms of service"? You think I don't know that? I'm trying to understand the motivation behind the rules and you're not helping. This "scheme" doesn't inflate Happy's mmr. It potentially even deflates it. This scheme doesn't bias his win rate, but accelerates it toward equilibrium. I'm still not understanding who is being hurt here (besides "the terms of service").

"how exactly does this "negatively affect other players"?" - Players repeatedly flaunting the rules for personal gain is bad for a community. Choosing to enter into a ranked competition, then deliberately not acting, would be grounds for immediate disqualification from an event and possible banning from future events, not to mention boos from the crowd as you sit there. When it's framed that way, hopefully you can see more clearly what Happy is doing. He keeps the benefit (high mmr within a system) while avoiding the downsides (certain people/playstyles/matchups that are either unpleasant or unfavorable or both to him). To achieve this trade, he pays with sportsmanship and his own integrity, AND other people within the system who also value MMR suffer, as they would have gained more overall if he lost more overall. Here's another way of looking at it - what would things look like if everyone behaved this way? Would the community overall become better or worse, more or less fair for everyone, if everyone left/wintraded as Happy has been doing? Queue times would skyrocket, mmr would become almost completely untied to skill.

@@evanwhite6369/shorts It seems like you can't get past the fact that he's breaking the terms of service, so I'll (re-)frame the question in terms of altering the matchmaking algorithm: If MM gave you a field to enter in names of opponents you didn't want to play, and when two players mutually entered each others names into that field then MM would never match them together, why would anyone complain? Who would suffer under such a system? And the match making system is not a tournament. I actually don't care about Happy, I barely follow the scene. My main interest here is in game design. The match making system is supposed to maximize for FUN and playing against someone you don't like is not fun. So if Happy is doing this in order to, say, keep his stream entertaining, then I see no problem with it... especially since no one has demonstrated a single victim (besides the abstract victim of the poor "terms of service").

@@sterlingveil "It seems like you can't get past the fact that he's breaking the terms of service" I actually don't care about the rules. I hate rules in general, probably to the extent that it is bad for me. I thought I did a good job describing the actual negative effects of his actions, because those are what matter to me. "If MM gave you a field to enter in names of opponents you didn't want to play, and when two players mutually entered... Who would suffer under such a system?" I don't think anyone would, and I agree this would be a positive change for some players. "The match making system is supposed to maximize for FUN" Strongly disagree. The purpose of MMR is to determine players actual skill level, that's it. I'd even go as far as to say the OPPOSITE is true - plenty of high rated streamers can be found time and time again creating smurf accounts, because it is more fun for them and their audience to dominate players of lower skill, instead of ~%51 w/l sweaty games against the best, where they belong. What do you think of comparisons I made before that you skipped over? Like an athlete or a team at a competition just choosing to sit down on the pitch. How would that feel to the people watching? Or the what if everyone did it question. What would the WC3 community look like then?

Leave Happy alone, guys gotta have something. Have you seen pictures of him? His live cam lack thereof facial expressions? Guys a few pegs taken down short of becoming a Hollow from Dark Souls.

@@lucamckenn5932 this is not about happy 🤣

I do agree that playing on Reforged grafix is THE MOST TERRIBLE CRIME ever but I do play and watch replays on "classic" grafix! What is more W3C has Reforged grafix disabled because it makes game unstable

give me back shots

@@gartoll hahahhaha, you mad, mad man !!! ❤

I am trying to prepare for every video I post on CZcams to highlight an interesting style/idea from a player. Will think about spoiling it less, but it's hard to avoid. Check out my twitch streams for live games casting with unexpected results!

remember that if you have an old w3 cd-key you can connect it to blizzard account - we don't use reforged graphic anyway - sadly I lost mine old CD-key so I had to buy it

@@SaulApeMan Yeah, I lost my old w3 key as well. It was so long ago since I played it, some 15-20 years