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On August 04 2023 01:27 WGT-Baal wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2023 00:18 Mutaller wrote:We just got a green post, not blue on the thread. Here's the postThese posts don't make us feel any better. It's so miserable, it doesn't help at all it s contradictory even. The ladder was reset so someone had to do it. So since they did it why not change the map pool as well? Either nothing happens (no reset, no new maps) or something happen (a reset, here) showing that it is possible. You cant have the reset and their explanation together, one of them has to be false.
Given how the reset was exactly on Aug 1st, I would not rule out that this was an automated yearly script running (i.e. cronjob). No human interaction required.
One option to do this differently would be to have a permanent map pool across seasons but put like 20-30 maps in it. That wouldn't get boring as fast. Question is how do you get new maps into it.
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On August 04 2023 17:11 sophisticated wrote:Show nested quote +On August 04 2023 01:27 WGT-Baal wrote:On August 04 2023 00:18 Mutaller wrote:We just got a green post, not blue on the thread. Here's the postThese posts don't make us feel any better. It's so miserable, it doesn't help at all it s contradictory even. The ladder was reset so someone had to do it. So since they did it why not change the map pool as well? Either nothing happens (no reset, no new maps) or something happen (a reset, here) showing that it is possible. You cant have the reset and their explanation together, one of them has to be false. Given how the reset was exactly on Aug 1st, I would not rule out that this was an automated yearly script running (i.e. cronjob). No human interaction required. One option to do this differently would be to have a permanent map pool across seasons but put like 20-30 maps in it. That wouldn't get boring as fast. Question is how do you get new maps into it.
I had actually not considered that, but you are right. In which case they could easily edit it to have 6 months long season.
I like the idea of a bigger map pool but then you run into issues of veto overlap etc (now those can all bne tweaked, but it needs to be considered carefully) and still it doesnt solve the problem of new maps (as in newly made maps) being added.
I think the main concern is lack of transparency. If Blizzard came out like "ok guys, we just cant do anything going forward so we ll give you this mappool forever and reset every 6 months" it would probably go down better than the shambolic communication we have.
Perhaps we could get on a "standard" map pool and then any new/weird map would just be played elsewhere (tournaments, custom games, Shield Battery etc).
Like yeah it might be a bit boring but a lot of people (particularly in Korea, from what I gather) on ladder want normal maps to practice the basics, and then we play the tournament maps in custom games or during the tournament. We need to come up with a solution that is acceptable by Blizzard, and clearly them changing maps periodically is not it for them.
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ya'll are missing the point, no solution will work if there's no one at blizz u can even talk to for this. there is 0 investment in this game at this point.
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I like the idea of following ASL map pool.
You could try out map specific builds that you saw your favourite progamer use.
And this should be simple enough for blizzard.
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They should just hand the game over to the community.
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On August 05 2023 01:56 maybenexttime wrote:
They should just hand the game over to the community.
"We don't do that kind of thing anymore." (seriously, what big company has a story for "what happens to this game once we stop putting any manhours into it?") Shield Battery is the only hope.
I recommend reading the blizzard forums thread that was linked on the last page btw. Some info from the (volunteer non-employed) forum moderator about how this is run. Internet archive mirror (partial)
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Why dont you write them a e-mail?
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On August 06 2023 21:54 Leonix wrote:
Why dont you write them a e-mail?
There is nobody to email.
Bobby Kotick is busy drinking cocktails by the beach while the volunteers 'work'. Not sure if anyone is really working in this company anymore. (Other than monetization managers obviously...)
- if you have suggestions about someone to email, feel free to go ahead 
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On August 07 2023 18:53 hgfrzthgffg wrote:
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Oh I see, they pay trolls around the web. That's where the money goes.
P.S. Bobby is that you? 
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On August 07 2023 19:04 hgfrzthgffg wrote:
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Dude, you are silly. We all payed for a product before it being fully delivered. That's the only thing we are guilty of.
Me and everyone else here payed for this thing. Go play minecraft, this is starcraft.
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On August 07 2023 19:18 hgfrzthgffg wrote:
*mod edit*
2v2 ladder
clan support
axed chat commands and functionalities that were available with SC:BW
the list goes on
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We payed for these promises. Otherwise everyone would stick to Fish and ICCUP.
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EPT
