EPTRelic vs Blizzard, lets show'em [Escapist Vote] - Page 42
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InToTheWannaB
United States4770 Posts
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Tom Phoenix
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On March 30 2009 06:11 Luhh wrote: Why vote for companies?! Beacuse games do not make themselves. They are a work of developers and if those developers make a great game, they should be commended for it. Just like how progamers are commended for excellent play and how writers are commended for excellent books. So regardless if you enjoy their other games or not, Blizzard still deserves to be commended for that one game you do enjoy. And before anyone tries to raise this point, not all of the developers of the original StarCraft are now gone. Infact, at least a quarter of the current SC2 development team consists of developers who also worked on the original and this is not mentioning those who have gone to higher positions (such as Mike Morhaime and Rob Pardo) since then. | ||
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Jusciax
Lithuania588 Posts
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Tom Phoenix
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Deleted User 3420
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ok, so here's a question. how could you possibly not foresee cheating in a tournament based on polling. oh wait, im sure you did. so then here is a followup question: why would you not just make the polling based on IP address so this cheating couldn't happen? I can only see 2 possible reasons: 1.) the people who make the polls are stupid or 2.) so that the hosters can have an excuse to manipulate the vote counts. | ||
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Shade692003
Canada702 Posts
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Jusciax
Lithuania588 Posts
On March 30 2009 0:36 Aran from Escapist wrote: Acti-Blizz 1. Pitall! - non-flickering animated sprites imitating a moving stickman (apparently graphics ahead of its time) 2. Starcraft - first rts with factions that were entirely different to eachother 3. Starcraft - replay system to see old games 4. Guitar Hero - a way to get people to pay for music again 5. Call of Duty - (multiplayer) respawn near teammates for instant reinforcements *Also credited for instances in MMOs, but I think Asherons Call or Anarchy Online did it first. *Also credited for the leveling hero system in RTS games, but Red Alert 2 did it first, might've been an even older game too that I don't know of *Also credited for flying mounts in MMOs... *sigh* Anarchy Online did it first, possible someone else too Relic 1. Homeworld - first true 3d rts (not to be confused with 3d graphics. HW was set in space and let you fly up and down to flank) 2. Company of Heroes - cover system akin to FPS games, where your units hide behind objects for reduced damage 3. Dawn of War - reinforce squads of units in the middle of combat in RTS 4. Dawn of War - fatality animations (synchronized kills) in RTS 5. Dawn of War - secondary hp bar (courage) for units in RTS, running out lead to insane statloss *Also credited for squadbased combat, but I think someone else did it first. *Also credited for taking out basebuilding in RTS, but I find it highly unlikely that none tried that before  *Also credited for moving away from resource gathering by making capture points at focal points on the maps. Again, probably not the first RTS to do this That's all I could dig up from personal memory mixed with some wikiing Bold ones are hilarious. | ||
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TransfuSe
Canada201 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
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fuck spaghetti is hard to spell. fucking italians | ||
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roadrunner_sc
United States1220 Posts
You think this'll bring you good publicity, escapist? You've pissed off a lot of people today. Rigged vote tallying/complete lack of any kind of professionalism, good work. | ||
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GinNtoniC
Sweden2945 Posts
Simply stating why I believe this poll wasn't handled in a legit way and appologzing if that opinion upsets anyone. It took about 15 seconds, then I was banned. How utterly pathetic. | ||
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iloahz
United States964 Posts
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
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Jusciax
Lithuania588 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
Oh crap I'm 2 hours late! And the margin was seriously 11 votes out of 6000? That's not fishy.... I mean if Blizzard would've won it'd be fine... But this is baad. | ||
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eatmyshorts5
United States1530 Posts
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Deleted User 3420
24492 Posts
Poll: Which is more powerful (Vote): A relic (the kind nicholas cage would be looking for in a movie) (Vote): A blizzard | ||
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Manbear
Canada306 Posts
On March 30 2009 07:04 eatmyshorts5 wrote: wait i don't understand. Did we lose? I believe we did... though i don't think there's any real point or prize in winning this pole unless I'm mistaken it looks like it was just created to fuel the fires of a flame war of epic proportions and get there site recognized | ||
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feathers
United States236 Posts
I call bullshit on this. | ||
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