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Therick
Norway324 Posts
welcome to 2 weeks ago | ||
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red_b
United States1267 Posts
but if it's blizzard then it's ok? sorry, but Im not 9 anymore and this wont work on me. | ||
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andeh
United States904 Posts
Remember w3 was "supposed" to get online replays | ||
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Dugrok
Canada377 Posts
 My epic gaming company is still epic I'm just anxious to see what kind of solution they'll come up with for the custom games problems. | ||
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
On June 25 2010 18:53 skeldark wrote: THATS SO FREAKING BAD TO HEAR. comming one day.... perhaps..... and not sure if it will cost money. dam this a bad news not good ones. because no chance at all to do it is way better. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
On June 25 2010 18:53 skeldark wrote: THATS SO FREAKING BAD TO HEAR. comming one day.... perhaps..... and not sure if it will cost money. dam this a bad news not good ones. i think this are no nice to have options. like: "oh thx bliz for adding such features". this are essential options. its like : you want to drive with your car in a other city. Yeah we will do this in a upgrade but for moment pls stay in your city with it. so this what they say is : "done when its done" was the past. game is ready in upgrade nr 20 is future... So you'd prefer not hearing it? lawl On June 25 2010 20:25 razed.dead wrote: Guess they had to give us something so people would stop bitching and saying "OMG I HAVE TO CANCEL THE PREORDER AND TELL ALL MY FRIENDS TO CANCEL THEIRS SO WE CAN PROVE A POINT!" in order to keep launch sales from slumping and all the stockholders happy. Still though, saying that the features won't be available at release means they have from July 28 to ~infinity to implement these features which could take quite a while .. but it's still awesome This is such a fucking dumb comment. If the like whole 1000 nerds on the internet who canceled their pre-order actually had the power to DIRECTLY influence stockholders, we wouldn't even be in this predicament. You realize how fucking ludicrous that is? Activision stocks went up when MW2 boycott hit over 2 million signatures, then went down when MW2 was peaking 21 million sales. Stocks don't work like that lawls. | ||
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shalafi
394 Posts
On June 26 2010 03:09 FliedLice wrote: because no chance at all to do it is way better. It's the confirmation of not having it on release. Bad news imho. | ||
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ForKvatch
United States54 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
On June 26 2010 02:19 ocho wrote: Do you really think the small amount of constructive criticism was the deciding factor? Which do you think a for-profit business cares more about, ten thousand people "whining" and saying they won't buy the game because chat channels aren't included, or one person giving constructive criticism by saying "the game is currently missing something, if you add chat channels maybe that would help"? Whining fixed this game. Do you really think a company with a target audience in excess of over 20 million people if you include customers lost to piracy in the original Starcraft cared about the internet rages of less then 10,000 people? Less then 1% of their target audience? .05% of their target audience? Get fucking real. No, if Blizzard listened to its vocal minority of fans, its because they felt that their complaints were legitimate complaints that could be extrapolated to harm the mass audience if left unfixed, and the alternatives they called for were at least somewhat practical and best for the long term success of the game, for reasons they may have previously overlooked. Stop simplifying and polarizing everything to shades of black and white. Blizzard is a company that makes money, but they way they've come to do this is by providing quality products with both niche and long term, as well as mass, appeal, as well as profitable business practices in development and management. Most of the communities goals are congruous with those goals. Blizzard "listens" to their community when a community member brings up a concern that is widely shared, and blizzard determines that concern to be both valid, and applicable to the games long term and short term success. Then, they internally develop a solution based on the general direction and non-specifics of ideas players have suggested. If Blizzard does not feel your complaint is legitimate, no mass pressure from a niche audience will appeal to them. This isn't strictly a business decision either. Blizzard is in the business of making good games, and making a game that has some degree of mass appeal is part of making good games. If I make a game and everyone says its shit but ONE GUY really likes it, should I feel incredibly content and happy as a game designer, persuading myself I made the best game ever with incredibly niche appeal? No, I haven't, and I'd be delusional to think that. Not only is it not profitable to implement things that go "against the grain", its also a decision I wouldn't want artistically and professionally as a designer. | ||
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SiegeFlank
United States410 Posts
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TaaiJoeng
Hong Kong164 Posts
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mini-miya
Sweden78 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
Actually, it makes sense to not allow LAN at the start, but to implement it later, so as many ppl will buy it as possible before LAN pirating is available. (not sure how it would work, but w/e) | ||
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junemermaid
United States981 Posts
On June 25 2010 21:15 skeldark wrote: if we have to pay for it i dont pay. i dont pay for options that are essential. when we start paying for cross... they think they can take money for everything. so in some years they sell each unit alone. and if you dont have enough money you must play without tanks ^^ What the hell are you even talking about...? I'm trying to wrap my head around both your posts in this thread and I'm coming up with nothing. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
On June 26 2010 03:23 ForKvatch wrote: I don't understand why people think you'd have to pay for cross-region play. I don't think Blizzard is really that dumb. Never underestimate what a company that wants to make money will do to make that money. | ||
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Puosu
6992 Posts
In WoW it makes a lot of sense, you can't allow people to constantly switch realms in a role playing game, that would be a mess. Simultaneously if you were never able to change realms it would also be annoying. Paid character transfer seems perfect. In SC2 there's really no harm in a player being able to play with people from other continents, he won't be able to get a cool axe from the US server and bring it back to Europe. Also Blizzard has stated latency as their main worry regarding cross realm play, it would seem rather shady for them to claim that a certain amount of money just makes it that much easier to transfer data around the world when they've done it in older games with a lot less money involved. I won't start throwing insults and begin being pessimistic just yet, maybe Activision isn't corrupting Blizzard but rather Activision is going to get changed by Blizzard, towards a better future? Let's hope so.  | ||
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Sejong
Korea (South)153 Posts
It says you will be able to (at a future date) change servers. It sounds like you'll be able to move your battle.net account to the EU or Asia server, similar to changing a WoW character to another server. It may even cost a few dollars and it may take 24 hours. So it's not quite cross-realm play necessarily. | ||
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QueueQueue
Canada1000 Posts
On June 25 2010 18:53 skeldark wrote: THATS SO FREAKING BAD TO HEAR. comming one day.... perhaps..... and not sure if it will cost money. dam this a bad news not good ones. i think this are no nice to have options. like: "oh thx bliz for adding such features". this are essential options. its like : you want to drive with your car in a other city. Yeah we will do this in a upgrade but for moment pls stay in your city with it. so this what they say is : "done when its done" was the past. game is ready in upgrade nr 20 is future... How is it bad news to know that one day a feature will be included that people otherwise thought wouldn't be? | ||
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FreshVegetables
Finland513 Posts
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Tabbris
Bangladesh2839 Posts
"FU",Haters | ||
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