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MilesTeg
France1271 Posts
And I bet a lot of those comments come from self entitled master players or something like that. Well sorry, but you're probably not as good as those random diamonds, both when it comes to the game and certainly when it comes to opinion on balance. There's always a lot of this ridiculous "if you're not top GM you suck" sentiment on this site, but this is really silly. | ||
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nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
On August 03 2012 08:41 superstartran wrote: To be a professional player in tennis, you have an ATP point. That would put you in an elite category of like top 4000-5000 people in the world. That means out of all the tennis players out there, you are better than every single one except like .0001% of the population of the damn world. It's a joke to believe that Coaches that have professional experience are bad players. They would kick your teeth in even at their age in their respective sport. yah, and a diamond player would kick the the teeth in of every single person except like .0001% of the population of the damn world. | ||
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Redlol
United States181 Posts
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snively
United States1159 Posts
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superstartran
United States4013 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:32 nkr wrote: yah, and a diamond player would kick the the teeth in of every single person except like .0001% of the population of the damn world. Diamond is top 20% of the current population of players playing the game. That's not anywhere near close to an ATP pro. | ||
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frogmelter
United States971 Posts
Problem is I don't actually know much about any match ups besides army compositions, since I got there on my mechanics alone... | ||
digmouse
China6327 Posts
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Heavenlee
United States966 Posts
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tuho12345
4482 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:34 eviltomahawk wrote: If only Gumiho and TLO were still random... I hear that MVP's off-race is pretty good, especially his Zerg. Dunno if he can ever ladder as random, though. MVP is top Korean GM with random at his prime time. Not sure now but he's ridiculously good. | ||
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EdenPLusDucky
571 Posts
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hiyo_bye
United States737 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
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Valon
United States329 Posts
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dragonblade369
Canada464 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:53 Valon wrote: They should be talking to pros about balance not diamond levels. This is the worst advice ever. Unlike popular beliefs, pros are extremely biased. After all, their job is to win. EDIT: I'm not saying not to do it. But if that's the only way u suggest them to balance the game, then please redo some thinking. | ||
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sjschmidt93
United States2518 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:54 sjschmidt93 wrote: Well, obviously you don't need to be good at the game to have a brilliant understanding of it. But at the same time being good at it doesn't equate to understanding it. Or any ability to write well, work with a team or convey ideas clearly. | ||
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mordk
Chile8385 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:43 Heavenlee wrote: Pretty amusing how much people shit on Blizzard for "bad balancing" when they've created three races with an insane variety of timings, for games that can go on for over 30 minutes, over a dozen units per race, etc. where there are somewhat standard builds but still a wide array of potential stylistic choices. Even if Brood War and other RTS's provided the template for this kind of game it's still impressive how good the game actually is. People act like this is somehow easy to do, then just whine incessantly when something seems remotely a bit too strong at a specific point of the game even though the metagame tends to sort itself out. This is clearly an attempt to belittle Blizzard for some kind of "low standards of designers" when I doubt they're trying to replace David Kim with a low diamond player. People, I've learnt, and gamers in particular, are brutally critical about pretty much anything. Especially when under the cover of internet anonymity. People like to disregard other people's efforts without knowing anything at all about how much work it takes to create something. Which is why forum discussions should always be taken with a grain of salt. | ||
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Darthsanta13
United States564 Posts
Seriously, this is like reddit-level getting upset over nothing. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On August 03 2012 08:54 0neder wrote: Because having dedicated balance guys ruins the game and takes focus away from game design itself. But the job ISN'T as a "dedicated balance guy." It's as an assistant game designer. Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented assistant game designer Balance is just one part of the job, as it should be. It even says in the job post that you'll also be involved in mapmaking and general game design. This is NOT a dedicated balancing job. It's a whole bunch of game design activities that the candidate will be an assistant to. If people read the entire job posting instead of jumping to conclusions from the title and a few bolded parts of the posting, then there would be much less misunderstanding on what this job entails. | ||
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Wuster
1974 Posts
On August 03 2012 09:48 EdenPLusDucky wrote: I don't know about blizzard's decision on this. You can get into diamond as a random player by doing 1base allins or 2base timings each game and that doesn't really prove that you are knowledgeable enough to balance the game. Fortunately there's more to the hiring process than resume. I imagine a random diamond all-iner's interview will go like this: Blizz: What's an area that you think is a balance problem based on your game experience? n00b: PvP is too coin-flippy (he only says this because he was mad about the GSL finals, not from personal experience). Blizz: Ok, what's your normal PvP strategy to get around the coin-flippiness. n00b: Um, I find cannon-rush to be a good all-around opening (cannon rushes every game). Blizz: Thank you for your time, please remember to get your parking validated at the front desk. Seriously, imagine the rants and venting about frustrations you have with your friends over this game. And how fast you can tell if your friend is blowing off steam or raving nonsense (arghargh! Terran bulidings shouldn't fly that's so stupid!!!!). That's how the interview will go down. I wouldn't be surprised if they asked to see some replays too, just to see that people really know the matchups and how hard some strats are to pull off. | ||
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