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Nightmarjoo
United States3360 Posts
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RushGG
United Kingdom212 Posts
On August 25 2010 00:47 CharlieMurphy wrote: I present you with CALCULATOR 2.0.! I worked for months on this and its great, you're gonna love it. Server maintenance going on right now for an undetermined amount of time so sit tight before you get to your calculations. ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/yef6p.jpg) Rofl, this is brilliant. | ||
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
They suck. They're lazy. They're stupid. They're run by interns. You're absolutely correct to be outraged by a lot of these issues. There are good and simple fixes to the UI issues (assuming they haven't relegated the job to interns), the lack of LAN, cross-realm games, hosted live replays, & chat rooms. This bullshit is 100% political inertia - it's super easy to implement these things (unless they have interns writing all of their code). I know Blizzard has a lot of smart engineers (full-time employees, not slave interns), so it has to be a failure of leadership and decisiveness. Or maybe they just plan on charging you extra for chat rooms in an expansion pack? Why is it every time something new and improved comes out, no matter what it is. They always make it look all flashy and shit but totally forget the utilitarian side of it? A lot of people who go into the game industry are artists & 3D graphics programmers. Only an experienced subset of Blizzards engineers (read: not interns) make the calls regarding how the engine runs - the overall performance of the game is therefore in the hands of a few, but performance optimization is always an afterthought (especially by interns). We'll likely see a lot of lag and usability issues get fixed in major patches to come - after they've been complained about a lot in forums and the developers have had time to fully analyze the problem. The devs have probably been so tied up with bugs in the unit physics/interactions, game logic and map editor, and cutting corners on the graphics prior to game release that they haven't had time to worry about game play. Also consider that the lobby code was probably developed by a separate team from the game engine (probably a team of interns). | ||
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Freaky[x]
Canada995 Posts
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/374941825 maybe we can just get teamliquid to win the internet again and get some changes implemented | ||
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ChaseR
Norway1004 Posts
So much for a decade of expectations. All thou personally I'm not even disappointed because since 07 I didn't have any expectation that they would deliver the sequel to the best RTS of all-time. Edit : Oh and for the past 2 days on the http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/ server, I can't play online because "No StarCraft II license found", I hope this is temporary... | ||
alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
no hotkeys (ctrl c ctrl j ctrl H whatever/!??! WHAT!?) no online replaying watchin a la war3.. -_- no /f m no / r fffffffffffffffffffff turns me off sc2 evne more even though bnet2 isnt part of the game.. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:07 Freaky[x] wrote: i think this battle net topic covers most of our concerns... http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/374941825 maybe we can just get teamliquid to win the internet again and get some changes implemented lot of these are really important/good. | ||
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Megalisk
United States6095 Posts
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
What a colossal mistake by Blizzard. You gotta think there's something up in their office. This kind of shit would be unimaginable before WoW. | ||
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Megalisk
United States6095 Posts
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:25 mucker wrote: This is how big corporations work. It isn't about excellence, it is about good enough. Yeah, bnet2 blows, and we've all known since the beta. And we all still bought the game. And we're gonna buy the two expansions too, even if bnet2 doesn't improve. but at this logic, why would they even waste money creating all this inferior shit and marketing it only to have it ridiculed? Why not just stick with the same old shit they had before, its much cheaper. | ||
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Megalisk
United States6095 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:30 CharlieMurphy wrote: but at this logic, why would they even waste money creating all this inferior shit and marketing it only to have it ridiculed? Why not just stick with the same old shit they had before, its much cheaper. Because no amount of ridicule from TL and every other sc community will dent their profits. We all bought the game regardless of the obvious issues with bnet 2.0 right? EDIT: Hell Starcraft 3 can be about the great pony wars of 2546 and we would still buy it. | ||
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
The more they keep dirting their name, the less credit Blizzard is gonna receive from us, eventually we will be so disappointed that we will no longer buy the low quality games from them. Of course it is Blizzard, so their credit with us will take a long time of fade out... edit: just to clarify, I'm by no means saying SC2 is a low quality game! | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:31 Megalisk wrote: Because no amount of ridicule from TL and every other sc community will dent their profits. We all bought the game regardless of the obvious issues with bnet 2.0 right? so my argument remains, why would they waste their time making some shit then? Why not just keep the old one? The only reason they would do this is to make more money with flashy new shit. | ||
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Megalisk
United States6095 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:40 CharlieMurphy wrote: so my argument remains, why would they waste their time making some shit then? Why not just keep the old one? The only reason they would do this is to make more money with flashy new shit. Your ninja edit is the answer. Do you think casualites wanna play on bnet 1.0? It is so efficient and simple to use, but its "ugly", there are no stupid achievements, and it lacks the myriad of other shit thats been added to bnet 2.0. Even with all the development time and money spent, I guarantee that they made a hefty return on their "work". @Fabiano We can all agree that SC2 kicks ass, but bnet -_-; | ||
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:40 CharlieMurphy wrote: so my argument remains, why would they waste their time making some shit then? Why not just keep the old one? The only reason they would do this is to make more money with flashy new shit. Because the same old shit allowed for things like pirate servers and lan play over hamachi with pirate copies. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
On August 25 2010 01:43 mucker wrote: Because the same old shit allowed for things like pirate servers and lan play over hamachi. ie, make more money. | ||
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
That's what corporations do. | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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