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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
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TaShadan
Germany1970 Posts
On December 05 2012 01:18 Wildmoon wrote: Well, if you bother to check then this is not really true. You know Rob Pardo, the man who was lead designer of BW,WC3,TFT,WoW,BC,WOTLK is working at Blizzard as vice president of game design and many other guys from their RTS team. The team that was mostly replaced is Diablo team. Rob Pardo is just management now, he is not making games anymore.+ Actually James Phinney and Patrick Wyatt were the real masterminds behind most of the games. but they left Blizzard and founded ArenaNet (GuildWars). Mike O'Brien and Jeff Strain left Blizzard for ArenaNet too. The number of important people still working for Blizzard is short and most of them are not designing/developing games anymore, they are just PR or manager guys. Most guys of the art team are still there. | ||
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
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sylverfyre
United States8298 Posts
On December 05 2012 02:34 Torenhire wrote: I hope he has a 2nd job if he's only making 2k/month lol Eh, 2k a month - $24k / year - is a perfectly livable income for a single person. Not a huge income, but perfectly livable. I'm not really paranoid about this on TL. TL has much better moderation policies than nearly all other forums, and has a recognizable core community. There's much easier forums out there to target (reddit, anyone?), where the message could potentially reach more people *AND* be easier for a hired gun to slip under the radar. 5 stars anyway. Awareness of this type of thing isn't bad at all. | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22254 Posts
On December 05 2012 03:03 Glurkenspurk wrote: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sixen http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/profile.php?user=Sixen This guy is a blizz shill 99% Jokes aside, even on Reddit he literally only posts about how cool blizzard stuff is. I've known Sixen for a long time (10+ years); he was a Blizzard forum MVP back when the Blizzard forums were relevant. He's definitely a huge fanboy, but I don't believe he's actually on the payroll. For a real example we've had here on TL, you guys might want to read this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=32696¤tpage=1275#25487 | ||
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
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Team .SCA
United States327 Posts
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schimmetje
Netherlands1104 Posts
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MattBarry
United States4006 Posts
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Ahelvin
France1866 Posts
On December 05 2012 03:46 EvilTeletubby wrote: I've known Sixen for a long time (10+ years); he was a Blizzard forum MVP back when the Blizzard forums were relevant. He's definitely a huge fanboy, but I don't believe he's actually on the payroll. For a real example we've had here on TL, you guys might want to read this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=32696¤tpage=1275#25487 Thanks for posting an actual instance of this kind of practice, so people can see what it's really like. Drop the tinfoil hat guys, I really doubt Blizzard would target TL.net to advertise their games. | ||
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sabas123
Netherlands3122 Posts
On December 05 2012 01:18 Wildmoon wrote: Well, if you bother to check then this is not really true. You know Rob Pardo, the man who was lead designer of BW,WC3,TFT,WoW,BC,WOTLK is working at Blizzard as vice president of game design and many other guys from their RTS team. The team that was mostly replaced is Diablo team. ow, i thought for all the old blizz games, thanks for letting me know. | ||
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Glurkenspurk
United States1915 Posts
On December 05 2012 03:46 EvilTeletubby wrote: I've known Sixen for a long time (10+ years); he was a Blizzard forum MVP back when the Blizzard forums were relevant. He's definitely a huge fanboy, but I don't believe he's actually on the payroll. For a real example we've had here on TL, you guys might want to read this: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=32696¤tpage=1275#25487 I don't see much of a difference if you compare the reddit posts to that shill. Always being able to quote CM posts from the forums.. It's just odd. | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
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Game
3191 Posts
On December 04 2012 20:17 Shady Sands wrote: So I was chatting with one of my friends who does social media consulting. I'll let the chatlog speak for itself Now, as I read through the SC2 section, I notice the same people defending Blizzard again and again. Sigh. On December 04 2012 20:34 ajxPurpleRain wrote: Blizzard products are great! I love all them. I was thrilled to purchase Mists of Panderia, an action-panda adventure-themed game filled with excellence. Another example of their can't miss spirit will be the release of Heart of the Swarm, a top-notch thrillride strategy-player which will come at the low, low price of 40 USD. Right forum buddies? On December 04 2012 20:43 Shady Sands wrote: 40 per month per forum account. So that guy in Seattle is making... 2k/month for spending all his time engaging in low-intensity flamewars and sockpuppetry Clever plan, "Shady Sands". Have a single account for years to lay low with as your main account, create notoriety on TL with it, then expose your entire plot. You follow that by logging on another 23 post account to demonstrate how exactly you go about your devious plan, and then explain to us the simple details of salary, which I should mention was not in the original chat log. You say it vaguely, yet on another line, to put yourself far enough away from it that no one would suspect you as you further embed your forum abusing, Blizzard promoting ways into TL's impenetrable God like forum and database. Well played you scum villain. Also, lol @ Imbatoss and Blind-Rawr  | ||
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kukarachaa
United States284 Posts
On December 05 2012 03:06 SgtCoDFish wrote: I can see this becoming a witchhunt thing where people who HAET BLI$$ARD LOL accuse anyone with a non-negative view of Blizz of being paid shills while smugly linking to this blog. Based off of a chatlog with an unknown person, posted by a relatively unknown person, talking about a non-specific company that could be one of like 20-50. Easy, you turn it around on them and accuse them of being paid by gaming companies, that are trying to bring Blizzard down. | ||
NonY
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Game
3191 Posts
On December 05 2012 05:01 Liquid`NonY wrote: I don't get what people who don't think SC is amazing (and therefore Blizzard is also amazing) are doing here in the first place. I feel like this is not the type of forum that ought to be targeted by advertisers (or social media supporters, if that's what you want to call them). This is a forum for believers. Of course all the hate is evidence against that and it confuses me. I don't want TL.net to be a battlefield for deciding whether SC is good or not. The people who don't like SC should just quietly leave. Speech in the form of written messages is not the best kind of speech for improving video games anyway. Playing the game and demonstrating what you believe is the proper form of speech and Blizzard already pays close attention to that. Those who aren't able to express themselves through the game aren't qualified for the discussion. Writing their thoughts down on forums shouldn't be some kind of consolation prize that allows them to cling to relevancy. Unfortunately it is. Also, nice post. | ||
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Antylamon
United States1981 Posts
I do believe that HotS has the potential to change a lot of things, but it's unrealistic to think that it will magically solve everything. On December 05 2012 05:01 Liquid`NonY wrote: I don't get what people who don't think SC is amazing (and therefore Blizzard is also amazing) are doing here in the first place. I feel like this is not the type of forum that ought to be targeted by advertisers (or social media supporters, if that's what you want to call them). This is a forum for believers. Of course all the hate is evidence against that and it confuses me. I don't want TL.net to be a battlefield for deciding whether SC is good or not. The people who don't like SC should just quietly leave. Speech in the form of written messages is not the best kind of speech for improving video games anyway. Playing the game and demonstrating what you believe is the proper form of speech and Blizzard already pays close attention to that. Those who aren't able to express themselves through the game aren't qualified for the discussion. Writing their thoughts down on forums shouldn't be some kind of consolation prize that allows them to cling to relevancy. And people wonder why Blizz doesn't listen to individual people... We've already proven that we're a gigantic mess of ideas multiple times. | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
On December 05 2012 05:01 Liquid`NonY wrote: I don't get what people who don't think SC is amazing (and therefore Blizzard is also amazing) are doing here in the first place. I feel like this is not the type of forum that ought to be targeted by advertisers (or social media supporters, if that's what you want to call them). This is a forum for believers. Of course all the hate is evidence against that and it confuses me. I don't want TL.net to be a battlefield for deciding whether SC is good or not. The people who don't like SC should just quietly leave. Speech in the form of written messages is not the best kind of speech for improving video games anyway. Playing the game and demonstrating what you believe is the proper form of speech and Blizzard already pays close attention to that. Those who aren't able to express themselves through the game aren't qualified for the discussion. Writing their thoughts down on forums shouldn't be some kind of consolation prize that allows them to cling to relevancy. Got here with broodwar and following the bw proscene and such. Can't really leave tl just cause i don't think blizzard or sc is amazing... TL is amazing and it's my home on the internet. And really, calling this a forum for believers and saying people who don't like sc should just leave is pretty offensive. | ||
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NonY
8748 Posts
On December 05 2012 05:14 nttea wrote: Got here with broodwar and following the bw proscene and such. Can't really leave tl just cause i don't think blizzard or sc is amazing... TL is amazing and it's my home on the internet. And really, calling this a forum for believers and saying people who don't like sc should just leave is pretty offensive. I don't mean to say that the folks who have settled down in General and Sports & Games and Blogs and now DotA, etc, should leave TL.net if they don't love SC2. If they disapprove of the direction SC has taken, then they just won't participate in anything SC-related and that's fine. | ||
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