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XERX
Profile Joined April 2017
85 Posts
May 16 2017 21:57 GMT
#21
On May 16 2017 16:25 Akara12345 wrote:
Dota only has 10 heroes on the map and it's already damn hard to see what's happening in a battle. Imagine 10 types of units amassed to 200/200 each.


you could always turn off the skins
XERX
Profile Joined April 2017
85 Posts
May 16 2017 22:04 GMT
#22
On May 17 2017 04:02 Th1rdEye wrote:
Skins and customization are kinda useless for any serious gamer. But sadly, the casual gamer enjoys this stuff. Everyone seems to be bashing it pretty hard but customization is a big plus for a lot of less-serious gamers. I mean, even I enjoyed playing The Sims back in the day because of the availability of customization. That game was basically sold on that principle and wasn't much more than that.


Exactly its toggle-able for a reason and tons of casual players would be inclined to be more involved in the scene it would grow the Brood War scene significantly.
Neneu
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway492 Posts
May 16 2017 22:22 GMT
#23
Well if we were reasonable and let those skins were only visible for the player with the skin. Now lets say a new skin were released, which during testing seemed fine, but it was later discovered after release that it e.g. made it slightly easier to select an irradiated muta. Now blizzard would be forced to remove the skin (and refund everyone who bought it) or go through a phase of disabling it, spending money, time, and company resources to redesigning the skin. Neither would be optimal for the player who bought it nor blizzard.

Skins matter in starcraft bw when it comes to balance. Either you are fine with a scenario like that where they release a slightly broken skin or you expect blizzard to be flawless.
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
May 16 2017 22:40 GMT
#24
On May 17 2017 07:04 XERX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 17 2017 04:02 Th1rdEye wrote:
Skins and customization are kinda useless for any serious gamer. But sadly, the casual gamer enjoys this stuff. Everyone seems to be bashing it pretty hard but customization is a big plus for a lot of less-serious gamers. I mean, even I enjoyed playing The Sims back in the day because of the availability of customization. That game was basically sold on that principle and wasn't much more than that.


Exactly its toggle-able for a reason and tons of casual players would be inclined to be more involved in the scene it would grow the Brood War scene significantly.

The problem is that nearly every multiplayer game with cosmetics doesn't have an option to toggle them off. The debate has raged across multiple games, but the status quo has not been changed.
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jume
Profile Joined February 2014
Germany25 Posts
July 21 2017 18:47 GMT
#25
Please not. I already don't like the new skins in starcraft 2. It is too disturbing for me.
sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
July 21 2017 18:59 GMT
#26
If we get an option to disable the skins I would be 100% in favor of this.
The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
July 21 2017 19:32 GMT
#27
if and only if they could be turned off
Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
July 21 2017 19:43 GMT
#28
if they can't be turned off then it literally kills the game. when SC2 added skins and the zergling skin had MASSIVE wings that made 1 ling cover 6 others, i quit since i had to look at health bars instead of units to count them. it was absolutely absurd..

dota 2/league/csgo are fine since you can generally tell and the skins don't interfere.. which is strange given that they have like 10000x more skins than sc2, yet sc2 picked the one skin that completely fucked with zergling visibility.. there HAS to be an option to turn it off...
Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
ProMeTheus112
Profile Joined December 2009
France2027 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-21 20:06:01
July 21 2017 20:05 GMT
#29
I don't mind as long as I can toggle it off, who knows, some skin/skin packs could look great. The shown "aiur nexus" "char hive" and "korhal CC" look quite good to me. Still wonder how they will work, if they just replace all your nexus/hive/CCs, I guess not though, that should look nice^^

definitely want option to turn it off in case smtg doesn't look good or detracts
Kare
Profile Joined March 2009
Norway786 Posts
July 21 2017 20:35 GMT
#30
Keep the cosmetics out! It sucks
In life you can obtain all sorts of material wealth, but the real treasure is the epic feelings you get while doing something you love.
iFU.pauline
Profile Joined September 2009
France1661 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-21 21:12:32
July 21 2017 21:09 GMT
#31
The only cosmetic I would tolerate is remasterized radio free zerg!

edit : OMG I JUST NOTICED RADIO FREE ZERG ISN'T WORKING ANYMORE!!!! THIEF!!!
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere, I see Heaven's glories shine, And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9221 Posts
July 21 2017 22:44 GMT
#32
They already have these for preorder and given how much blizzard pushes skins I doubt they will be the last.
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sM.Zik
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2550 Posts
July 21 2017 22:48 GMT
#33
^these looks ugly af. Maybe i'm getting old, but I never understood this massive interest in skins the past couple of years...
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eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-21 23:07:11
July 21 2017 23:06 GMT
#34
They already got an option to turn off the Town Hall skins in the patch 1.19 PTR.
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Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-07-21 23:22:29
July 21 2017 23:14 GMT
#35
On July 22 2017 07:44 Weavel wrote:
They already have these for preorder and given how much blizzard pushes skins I doubt they will be the last.
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those hurt my eyes, particularly the nexus

edit
also why in the world would a "char hive" look molten? even on char it wouldn't look like that unless it was on top of an active volcano that somehow wasn't covered by creep... they should have done an aiur hive, with like a hive overgrowing a big tree or something.. same with the CC and nexus. like you know how in warcraft 2 they had different building sprites depending on what tileset you're playing on? THAT'S what they should do, it was one of my favorite parts of warcraft 2:

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Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
July 21 2017 23:34 GMT
#36
Why every game has to have "skins" nowadays?
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
riotjune
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States3394 Posts
July 21 2017 23:58 GMT
#37
cause it made the folks over at rito games rich af
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
July 22 2017 00:20 GMT
#38
On July 22 2017 08:58 riotjune wrote:
cause it made the folks over at rito games rich af

cause that charge a fucking arm and leg for them, i could get a full set on dota for like 30c, but on league they're like 10$ for decent ones and 20 for good ones, fuck that
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Lazix
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia378 Posts
July 22 2017 02:07 GMT
#39
The vast majority of these skins are rubbish with zero artistic integrity. What sense does a Char Hive make on a space platform? None of course, but it will make a few bucks off the people who want to "bling" their account.

That's the problem with these skins. Artistic vision and cohesiveness to the original game are lost to gimmicks and second rate jokes designed to make a few bucks.

By their very nature they're all designed to be eye catchy which also completely screws up the visual harmony of the game.

I really hope Blizzard give us the option to turn this filth off. Even though they will probably force tournaments to leave it on.
Levque
Profile Joined October 2016
88 Posts
July 22 2017 02:35 GMT
#40
My fear is the low $15 price tag was chosen because they plan to flood the game with skins. 2 years from now brood war might be completely unrecognizable.
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