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Remember, he has to have a ladder account somewhere and he has to play all 3 races to be a balance designer. He also was very good at sc:bw so it would be extremely unlikely he wasn't an amazing sc2 player.
David Kim's replays. - Page 2
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Slayer91
Ireland23335 Posts
Really? Remember, he has to have a ladder account somewhere and he has to play all 3 races to be a balance designer. He also was very good at sc:bw so it would be extremely unlikely he wasn't an amazing sc2 player. | ||
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drewcifer
United States192 Posts
On September 06 2010 03:34 Slayer91 wrote: You can argue its not david kim, but its very hard to argue the converse. There is someone other than david kim that is a top RANDOM player but has not entered a SINGLE tournament. Really? uhhh yea? Why is that hard to imagine | ||
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Kyuki
Sweden1867 Posts
On September 06 2010 03:34 Slayer91 wrote: You can argue its not david kim, but its very hard to argue the converse. There is someone other than david kim that is a top RANDOM player but has not entered a SINGLE tournament. Really? Remember, he has to have a ladder account somewhere and he has to play all 3 races to be a balance designer. He also was very good at sc:bw so it would be extremely unlikely he wasn't an amazing sc2 player. word.. | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
On September 06 2010 02:23 Dente wrote: It's not david kim  yes it is. | ||
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
On September 06 2010 02:46 Kiante wrote: yeah all the blizz employees cant participate in tournaments. AFAIK its becuase they could influence the game. Say they put in a really specific bug by hiding it in a patch, then exploit it to win a tournament...yeah wtf? That doesnt make any sense. The balance testers are not coders. David Kim plays the game and suggests balance changes. He doesnt actually implement those changes. | ||
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
On September 06 2010 04:20 Mastermind wrote: wtf? That doesnt make any sense. The balance testers are not coders. David Kim plays the game and suggests balance changes. He doesnt actually implement those changes. Hence why he plays random. If he played protoss. It would be like.. "Hey one of the head balance testers of Starcraft 2 players protoss, must mean protoss will be getting the favored treatment, buffed, etc | ||
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
On September 06 2010 04:20 Mastermind wrote: wtf? That doesnt make any sense. The balance testers are not coders. David Kim plays the game and suggests balance changes. He doesnt actually implement those changes. In my completely unfounded and speculative opinion: David Kim is by far the best player at Blizzard and if something is imbalanced at high level, it is most likely solely his fault since he's the only one who has any clue how the game plays at that skill level, and he has a neutral perspective (as opposed to actual top players) from playing Random and being a Blizzard employee. Just think about what happens when they test balance changes, you have David Kim pretty much dominate the other inferior Blizzard employees doing whatever he wants, how you can you even test the game in this manner when there is such a skill discrepancy between testers? If anything he denies being David Kim so he won't be constantly bothered. In the game I played with him I knew it was him even though he said it wasn't at the start and I pretty much spent the entire game asking him how he could let Terran be developed so versatile and easy to play at a high level, he didn't budge. I have a feeling if David Kim feels the game is fine, the game's not going to change much despite what the masses say or statistics show. | ||
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Zerokaiser
Canada885 Posts
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Kage
India788 Posts
On September 06 2010 05:12 Zerokaiser wrote: Is it comforting to anyone else to know that the lead Blizzard balance designer is on Battle.net playing every single day at a high level? haha that was funny. What a slacker, playing games all day, doesn't he have like a race to fix now? I think if anything that's a great thing that hes actually playing the game and not theorising about possible strategies and counters but getting live data. | ||
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ooni
Australia1498 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/3427/previewmk.jpg) This is what David Kim looks like just incase ppl wants to know~ | ||
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