Attacking the messenger of bad news is ill advised. His job is to comunicate with us and not telling us only the stuff we want to hear. I would also be suprised if he personaly had anything to do with any of the dessision you resent him.
Edit: Disregard my post since the post I am refering to a post that has been removed.
He didn't communicate it in a timely manner (and that's not going away)...
Perhaps he communicated it as quickly as Wizards approved his response. Its not his fault if he's had a muzzle placed on him and can't communicate everything that he'd like as quickly as he likes. He doesn't work for you or I.
I would be surprised if he had something to do with the censorship. If I were in his position, I wouldn't want to have to deal with all the grief it would cause.
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'He didn't communicate it in a timely manner (and that's not going away) and he seems to have little interest in actually representing us to his co-workers, instead, he "passes it along" (which is pretty indicative, he's not fighting on our behalf, he's saying "Yea, they're still whining about it.")
I would not be surprised if he had something to do with it, given how pathetic his performance has been so far.
I believe this is not the case.
I believe he communicated my original concerns to the powers that be soon after my voicing of them, but wasn't informed of the policy change, or possibly muzzled ("You can't tell them that yet!"), until after the CCC.
I also believe the decision to hold off on announcing this change in policy was was held off until after the CCC purposefully, for fear of public outrage and vitriol spoiling an otherwise pleasant event. Also so the Community players wouldn't have a chance to question WotC face to face.
This past CCC is forever tainted in my heart, a malignant tumor on my (up to that point) growing admiration of how WotC had been going and growing with MTGO. I was so happy with wizzo's. Then they pulled this [expletive deleted]. Now I'm back to where I think they don't give a [expletive deleted] about us, and can't communicate their way out of a paper bag.
Anyway, shooting the messenger isn't a good idea.
We'll see what happens when I hit 'em up for prizes for Ham on Wry II (Sat 5/4/13) and Modern's Second (Sat 8/24/13).
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke
This is why I take meta analysis articles from WotC with several grains of salt.
"Tron is the only deck that's currently outperforming Jund." This does not match what I see. The only aspect Tron is "outperforming" Jund (currently) is the (4-0) vs (3-1) finish ratio, and that is due to a recent event having 2 (4-0) Tron decks. Numbers-wise, Tron has fewer appearances. Tron has also consistently underperformed over the past year, typically showing Tier 1.5 performance, while continuing to be called a Tier 1 deck. Perhaps you have access to information I don't - which has only become the case recently.
Pod is Pod. There are two distinct versions thereof currently performing reasonably well: Blue Naya and GBW (Melira). There are also Naya (no blue) and Realm Razer variants, but they don't show up much.
"White Weenie may seem like a sword at a gun fight, but the deck is surprisingly well-positioned in the current format." Uh.... what? There is no White Weenie currently in the Modern meta. Lifegain Aggro (Soul Sisters, Martyr Proc, et al) is not White Weenie. I understand that it can be argued that the creatures are all small and white, but this is not White Weenie. Kithkin is White Weenie.
"Modern is an extraordinarily diverse format that handsomely rewards players for innovation." Best sentence. However, I have seen the Modern meta devolving in the past month. I no longer see as much "innovation" as was once present. This may be simply because I'm not seeing all the results. The decision to redact over half of the Modern results appears to have hurt, rather than helped, this format.
Please re-consider this policy change, at least in regards to non-rotating formats.
All results. All the time.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke
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... Oh wow. This is just plain hilariously absurd. Formats getting solved quickly? Whoa, what a surprise when the sets are smaller and the lower rarities are designed for Limited more and more, and just generally made increasingly simple due to NWO? When there's ever more retardedly stupid hard-to-answer bombs being printed, oftentimes completely at odds with the colour pie? And then simple limiters like Mana Leak are said to be too strong?
Yes, I think it absolutely is the information that is the problem. Time Spiral / Lorwyn / Coldsnap Standard absolutely wasn't ridiculously diverse while being the biggest Standard format ever. With lots of powerful cards across all colours and combinations while not being genericly powerful "goodstuff" or outright retarded "Lol I Win" cards. I remember wrong, naturally. I mean, my poor brain tries to tell me that there used to be a GR ramp deck that wasn't utterly brainless. It speaks of unfathomable things like interesting cards in black and red, and of a strange thing called combo. It keeps insisting that interesting commons like Blink and Teachings were printed, and entire archetypes ran primarily off uncommons.
Can anyone get me my fever medicine, please? I think I am seeing things. While I am at it, can I please have some Thragtusks, Delvers, Prime Times and Karns? I think I need to build a deck that I can go operate the next event so I can see who topdecks better.
Yep, it's an insane bad dream. Right up your alley!
I'm not a standard player, but I have heard quite a few complaints like yours. I have to say the argument that the New World Order might be one of the reasons the format gets solved too quickly actually makes sense. Alas, considering how Wizards considers the NWO to be essential to new players joining the game, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Ok, I would have a couple of questions for Wizards (not that I'm hoping for much of an answer): are we ever going to get feedback on whether the redacted results are producing the expected results or not? Wizards like to say "we try things, if they don't work, we roll back". Ok, cool, if you actually mean it and do not say that just to get angry people of your back. But how long would it take for this "experiment" to be considered as having yielded positive or negative results? Is there even an actual measurable goal?
Ok, I would have a couple of questions for Wizards (not that I'm hoping for much of an answer): are we ever going to get feedback on whether the redacted results are producing the expected results or not? Wizards like to say "we try things, if they don't work, we roll back". Ok, cool, if you actually mean it and do not say that just to get angry people of your back. But how long would it take for this "experiment" to be considered as having yielded positive or negative results? Is there even an actual measurable goal?
Probably a lowered frequency of complaints of harassment with a basis in ratings. That's the type of thing that only WotC can measure.
However, I have seen the Modern meta devolving in the past month. I no longer see as much "innovation" as was once present. This may be simply because I'm not seeing all the results. The decision to redact over half of the Modern results appears to have hurt, rather than helped, this format.
