Blizzard explains "how" the ladder is reset... i

Blizzard explains "how" the ladder is reset...

http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=d2-general&t=1023096&p=1&tmp=1#new1023096

 

can someone rephrase that?

 

obviously, you have to read between the lines there. the simple expanation is, that until there have been enough hits on the chat gem, the ladder will not reset. last season there was lots of talk about the chat gem, and people constantly saying "i hit it so many times, but nothing happened".

im sure the one person didint even knwo it, but one of the times they hit the gem, actually reset the ladder last season.

 

That is one of the funniest explainations I have ever heard. But as strange and rediuclous as it sounds, that actually does make sense. I wonder, does that mean that if everyone had just sat there hitting the chat gem for weeks in the beginning of ladder, that it would actually be reset far earlier?

 

Is there any way to verify the validity of this theory?

 

meh, whats the chat gem?

 

chat gem ?

There isn't one anymore Usufruct's cat ate it.

 

funny. almost sounds like a belated april fools joke. i think i only clicked that chat gem a few times. i'm going to go home tonight and click the gem for 6 hours and see what happens.

 

The chat gem is the little colored button you can press in the middle and lower half of the screen. It's imbedded in the little strip that separates the chat screen from the Join/Create game screen.

Just look for glowing things and start clicking. You'll see a bnet message when you click it.

 

whats the chat gem .. for?

i clicked on it a bunch and it just activates and deactivates.

 

Translation: They don't care

 

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Wait a minute! I just found some nonpareil capers in the fridge. Hmm, expires 03'.... it's been open for a while too. Never mind

 

The chat gem does exactly what it was intended to do. Listen for a "cow moo" and you are on the right track.

 

Last I heard the chat gem was a feature that never got finished/added but blizzard left it in for kicks.

 

I miss the part with the maiden, the bathtub full of blood and the black candles. Or was that the rust storm ceremony ?

 

LOL HAHAH IMA PRESS IT ALL DAY THEN!! (i want my FAITH GMB from ladder)

 

The gem is a horrible feature that Blizzard put in. Didn't they know that all that clicking will cause arthritis?

 

The chat gem gave me carpel tunnel syndrome, Ima gonna sue!

j/k


maybe

 

I know what the chat gem is for.

It's a secret banner add. When you click it, blizzard gets money, but the user doesnt know that.

 

Sometimes it says "Perfect Gem Activated" and sometimes it says "Moooooo!"
(but this is very rare)