D3 Bnet is going the same way as SC2 - Page 13

On February 07 2012 11:29 nvs. wrote:
Blizzard keeps seeming less and less like the company I remember growing up.

On March 23 2012 08:18 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
I don't understand what they're so afraid of with chat channels in B.Net.

From what I see, blizzard gamers and the communities in general are the best of any gaming community in terms of maturity and constructive talking. Even the B.Net general forums, despite what many people on TL may say, are several steps above any other gaming forum i've seen.

The community as a whole is asking for open chat channels. I haven't met a single gamer who says otherwise. Just give them to us! Or give us an extraordinarily articulate reason as to why "[we] really don't want them."

If D3 B.Net is not noticeably improved from what it is in SC2, I really don't see myself playing D3 very long after release. Social is everything in online gaming, and, through their actions, Blizzard is actively trying to fail it's customers and community.

On March 26 2012 10:24 Rumpus wrote:
Man, I have played the Diablo 3 beta and I didn't really know anyone else that did so I sort of said I'd shrug off the social aspects until launch. But after reading this, and going through it myself....I don't think so Blizzard.

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice...

Certainly won't be getting Diablo if this is the crap we'll have to deal with. Already went through this issue with Starcraft 2, and still going through it =/.

For those who don't understand, the social aspect is insanely important to a game like this. How would I find people to trade/group with and actually do some friendly banter and so forth? I don't want to have to go through TL or the Diablo 3 forums, swap friend codes and start getting people together every time I want to meet or play with someone. That is ridiculous.

On March 26 2012 16:27 nimdil wrote:
Of all features of d2 chat channels was the most useless for me to a point of being annoying and irritating. It was a place were teen players were bitching about stuff using more abbreviations than words and were spam bots made any activity a hell. I praise blizzard for kicking open chat channels out. They were discouraging.

On March 26 2012 17:03 TRAP[yoo] wrote:

you dont have to join them..................
and its not like bots cannot be prevented by blizzard.

On March 26 2012 17:03 TRAP[yoo] wrote:

you dont have to join them..................
and its not like bots cannot be prevented by blizzard.

i dislike the direction blizzard is taking with new games. why would they change stuff that was awesome in the old games?!

On March 26 2012 10:24 Rumpus wrote:
Man, I have played the Diablo 3 beta and I didn't really know anyone else that did so I sort of said I'd shrug off the social aspects until launch. But after reading this, and going through it myself....I don't think so Blizzard.

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice...

Certainly won't be getting Diablo if this is the crap we'll have to deal with. Already went through this issue with Starcraft 2, and still going through it =/.

For those who don't understand, the social aspect is insanely important to a game like this. How would I find people to trade/group with and actually do some friendly banter and so forth? I don't want to have to go through TL or the Diablo 3 forums, swap friend codes and start getting people together every time I want to meet or play with someone. That is ridiculous.

On March 26 2012 20:01 MrTortoise wrote:



Actually fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

No shame in being conned once.

On March 26 2012 19:31 dartoo wrote:

I recently got into the Dota 2 beta, and I was totally blown away by what I saw, it was amazing. Everything you wanted was in one screen and presented in a very nice way. Chat channels, personal skill level, friends, game selection,stats etc.

And whats more they also promote the e-sport aspect of it by constantly tellling you what matches are on, and which pro's are playing. it was really well done(it does have a lot of bugs currently, but it's beta for a reason).

After a while I realized that it was basically the war3 interface with some nice tweaks. Going back to sc2,I realized how much more they could've done to the ui. You can even watch whole pro-matches from the dota 2 game. I think they made a mistake in using a console UI designer. It's a little bit sad to see because it is blizzards original design made better, while blizzards current designs going backwards.