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United States1578 Posts

February 21 2017 23:22 GMT

#281

On February 22 2017 05:08 MuNi wrote:
None of this matters. The better game will outlast the weaker game. Survival of the fittest. BW FOREVER.

True. Darwinism always wins out in the end.

Which is why SC2 is kinda starting to fade (even despite LotV being released only about a year ago), and BW is resurgent. SC2 caught a big wave upon launch thanks to the Starcraft name (which SC1/BW established), and because of Blizzard's huge and single-minded commitment to it (which included temporarily killing off the BW Pro scene, sadly and counterproductively).

But in the end, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. The best game designs and best games will endure, and the "Good try, but..." games will fade, no matter how heavily they're promoted.

It's like movies... a big-budget, super-heavily-marketed summer blockbuster that is nonetheless not that great at its core will have the big opening weekend, but then fade away after that. It doesn't have 'legs', to use industry-speak.

But BW has legs. In spades.

duke91

Germany1458 Posts

February 22 2017 02:35 GMT

#282

On February 21 2017 19:26 bartus88 wrote:

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SC2 is undeniably better balanced, the BW community had to do the balancing by making maps that counter-acted the imbalances.

But that is not something most people here would like to hear, they can only focus on the negatives of SC2. The few pages of this thread are pretty sad to read. Both are amazing games, but this community is way too blinded by bitterness to have a decent discussion.

There's a good reason I went from reading this subforum daily to reading it once every 3 months, around the time this thread was made.

Alternative balance facts

ninazerg

United States7291 Posts

February 22 2017 06:29 GMT

#283

On February 21 2017 07:45 Hildegard wrote:
In my opinion SC2 is better balanced than BW.

Well, it's okay to be wrong.

Jae Zedong

407 Posts

February 22 2017 09:15 GMT

#284

The last thread I read about balance in the SC2 section was about a matchup that now has a measured winrate of 29-71%, lol. Good balance there buddy.

That is a catastrophical discrepance from a statistical point of view, I don't think most people even realize how lopsided that really is.

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United States1578 Posts

February 22 2017 09:36 GMT

#285

On February 22 2017 18:15 Jae Zedong wrote:
The last thread I read about balance in the SC2 section was about a matchup that now has a measured winrate of 29-71%, lol. Good balance there buddy.

That is a catastrophic discrepancy from a statistical point of view, I don't think most people even realize how lopsided that really is.

Basically that's like vanilla Starcraft prior to the 1.04 patch. It was that lopsided... Zerg win rates were about like that vs the other two races, according to ladder stats.

But Bliz largely fixed that with 1.04, i.e. less than 8 months after SC came out. What's SC2's excuse?

2Pacalypse-

Croatia9558 Posts

February 22 2017 10:46 GMT

#286

Yeah...

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