Quote Originally Posted by Yelsha View Post
1) Too many people complain and b***h about having gems taken from them by members of other realms.

2) If you already can get gems in regular arena, no need to make gem stakes (or possibly any stakes) in UA. It is redundant, and may result in the top 10 in each realm getting more gem stakes than other players which would be a HUGE no-no.
Matt's suggestion only applied (so far as I could tell) to rank rewards and not stakes. That would mean the players in UA would not be able to get gem stakes and would therefore be missing out on gems that players who aren't in the top 10 of realm arena would be getting.