It seems programmers are getting a whole lot of rage. Please consider that developers, designers, achitects, testers and technical staff all have a manager that tell them exactly what to do and are constantly pushing them to do more things in less time.
To put it into simpler terms, the fact that a game was not release ready is largely to blame on managers and CxOs. Because they didn't allocate enough resources or time for proper testing and developping. Whereas there is no excuse for testers in their lack of expertise or thorough testing, they will get fired.
If these programmers and testers were giving enough time, I'm positive that they could have done a better job. However, when pressed for time by deadlines and pressure from a senior, I'm sure they won't do their best job.
But hey anyone who thinks about it, should realize that SC2 is not top priority for Blizzard now, because they have so much more in the pipeline, in such a case it's very easy for errors like these to slip in. Not saying that these errors are okay, just a logical consequence.
Unlike most people I dont seem to be so passionate for this issue as to write a while paragraph. But I believe the fault is more in the management of the product rather then the programmers themselves.
The most hilarious thing of it all is, by the time this thread has dried up, Blizzard will have already patched everything Anyway, piece of advice: if you haven't played any SC2 since it came out and are happy with watching streams and/or events, then think carefuly about buying HOTS.
It is nice to see people passionate about sc2, it shows how much you love/like this game. If you truely hated the people behind this game then you would leave and play other games like LoL, dota or some other cool app games. I won't deny that the patch has it faults but please give the patch some time to be fixed. I am sure in a couple weeks it will be all sorted out. Also the game is still playable, it's not like it will affect your life or wellbeing.
On August 04 2012 10:19 DtorR wrote: It is nice to see people passionate about sc2, it shows how much you love/like this game. If you truely hated the people behind this game then you would leave and play other games like LoL, dota or some other cool app games. I won't deny that the patch has it faults but please give the patch some time to be fixed. I am sure in a couple weeks it will be all sorted out. Also the game is still playable, it's not like it will affect your life or wellbeing.
On August 02 2012 16:57 eviltomahawk wrote: Whatever happened to all the feedback that they were supposed to get from the 1.5 beta? Did people even post much feedback at all?
most of that feedback was congratulations on certian things they added or another list of features peopel demanded. none of the people really searched and tested for bugs.
on the beta server i didnt have any lags although it was a US server and i am playing from europe. now i have lags on the EU server.... moreover, the custom game issues did not happen. they just didnt put everything on the test server....
On August 02 2012 16:25 Swwww wrote: Game may as well be made by activision. I don't really see any point in playing sc2 anymore if blizzards themselves are putting this little effort into their game. Hots will be trash and so will void. Thanks for ruining starcraft.
how is this little effort when they have just released this huge patch? Even if it isn't working 100% as intended, still a pretty big chunk of new stuff added in and changed
Yeah, I'm really glad I didn't decide to play recently. (As far as I know) This is Blizzards second big launch fail. First D3, and now a major patch for SC2? Two strikes.
...Three strikes your out. Would be nice, but will not happen. As mentioned earlier, blizzard/activision is exploited their monpolistic stituation and their good reputation, that isnt used up for many people. I wont purchase HOTS or any other blizz product, until this changes.
Is anyone else getting constant friggin' lag spikes after 1.5? I've lost countless ZvZ's in ling/bane b/c of it, as well as having massive micro issues early game in PvT/TvP.
I'm starting to wonder when people will stop putting "I love Blizzard and all their games" at the end of these blogs. I mean, we're going on 3 years of more or less the same bullshit...
On August 04 2012 10:19 DtorR wrote: It is nice to see people passionate about sc2, it shows how much you love/like this game. If you truely hated the people behind this game then you would leave and play other games like LoL, dota or some other cool app games. I won't deny that the patch has it faults but please give the patch some time to be fixed. I am sure in a couple weeks it will be all sorted out. Also the game is still playable, it's not like it will affect your life or wellbeing.
I can't log in or play single player, and I have sent three support tickets now trying to get a fix, so the game is in fact 100% unplayable for some.
On August 05 2012 03:39 FabledIntegral wrote: Is anyone else getting constant friggin' lag spikes after 1.5? I've lost countless ZvZ's in ling/bane b/c of it, as well as having massive micro issues early game in PvT/TvP.
I think I kept getting this same lag spikes you are even after turning down the graphics settings... wtf
I don't understand why they feel like they are in a hurry. They took forever to release Diablo 3 and it was lackluster. They should just release a quality product, instead of releasing a bugged one. It's inexcusable for there to be this type of bull-shit that the consumers have to deal with. If it happened a few times, sure I'd let it slide, we all make mistakes. But this shit happens all the damn time. Get your shit together blizzard.
On August 04 2012 05:44 lunafraga wrote: I don't know what to say or expect on behalf of the programming team who made this patch 1.5.This is a total C++ kind of program.It is a total mess to entire SC2 players either pro or not.This is not acceptable in our reason or any of our mild speculation.Blizzard should be responsible for this mess and maybe face a court trial.
Flawless representation of my reaction. Literally lol'd
I agree with the people who are saying that these masses of bugs have happened before, even in BW. BUT, you have to realize that it's Blizz's fault for not having LAN support. Yes, we're back to this topic again, but for good reason. It's a big reason why these types of patches are recieving huge overreactions.
On August 04 2012 17:30 LuckyFool wrote: they're putting in effort and actively working to correct issues, it's not a total lost cause, I just feel they could be doing a MUCH better job.
Tech support has informed me that I do not meet the system requirments to play the game and thats why I cant LOG IN.
Nevermind that logging in shouldnt be a demanding act...
i7 920 @ 3.7ghz (42 hours prime stable) 12 gigs of DDR3 Ram at 1566mhz or so 64 gig SSD (with OS and SC2) GTX 560
lol.
I closed the ticket and remade a new one cuz thats just... wow.
I reformated, took away the OCs, tested my ram, tried a different HD, tried windows XP instead of 7....
Then I tried logging into my wifes account and it worked fine.
EPT
Anyway, piece of advice: if you haven't played any SC2 since it came out and are happy with watching streams and/or events, then think carefuly about buying HOTS.
