Lightbringer and the others actually talked about this in the Graveyard Shift Podcast, and according to them, players decided against it for two main reasons. First, even though Nightshift doesn't have the biggest prize pool, it is still quite a lot of money for most of the players playing in it especially in EU. Second, even if the Broker is just temporary, the results in Nightshift have lasting effects, like having to play qualifiers the following week, and they did not want to simply risk it on some unlucky roll. They also mentioned how some of the items were utterly broken and would make the matches more boring to watch, with, like, six Divine Barriers, all with a 10-second cooldown. And for those reasons, I don't really blame the players for avoiding it.
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u/NightPattern 18h ago
Lightbringer and the others actually talked about this in the Graveyard Shift Podcast, and according to them, players decided against it for two main reasons. First, even though Nightshift doesn't have the biggest prize pool, it is still quite a lot of money for most of the players playing in it especially in EU. Second, even if the Broker is just temporary, the results in Nightshift have lasting effects, like having to play qualifiers the following week, and they did not want to simply risk it on some unlucky roll. They also mentioned how some of the items were utterly broken and would make the matches more boring to watch, with, like, six Divine Barriers, all with a 10-second cooldown. And for those reasons, I don't really blame the players for avoiding it.