Heroes Large General Thread - Page 157

On October 27 2014 09:18 deth2munkies wrote:


Just think about it this way: what reason would they have to not add draft mode?

On October 26 2014 04:24 KeksX wrote:

Actually they never tried to make SC2 an eSports game. At least officially, so unless you have some inside information I'm gonna stick with "not true".

eSports and fun video game aren't mutually exclusive, actually it's quite the opposite.

"Dilling explains that because Starcraft II is being developed with professional competition in mind, the sequel's special effects will be "tight, fast, and quick" such that they don't obscure the action or slow down your computer. However, "landmark events" like the summoning of the top-level protoss mothership unit will be accompanied by sufficient graphical fanfare to point out their importance."

May 2007

Q: And what about production queues?
A: There you see that Sc2 is orientated towards esports. We have to keep a fragile balance: The game should offer comfortable usage, but it should not play by itself, else the challenge would evaporate. Let's see what the Beta testers say about it.

Source May 2008, one year after unveiling

TL:OK, Blizzard has recently been making moves into the world of E-Sports - you have a dedicated E-Sports team now. With Starcraft 2, will you actually be organizing and sponsoring SC2 events or will you be leaving that to 3rd parties, either professional or in the community?

DB: I think Bob [Editor's Note: Bob Colayco, Blizzard PR Manager for SC2] is going to answer this one.

Bob: You know, we have an E-Sports team for a reason and I think you're going to see some 3rd party stuff as well, but we definitely like to get hands on with our own things. If you look at what we've done with WoW Arena, we do have the tournament realms and we do regional finals that we run and we sponsor. And then there's the grand finals which we have at Blizzcon, so I think you're going to see a mix of things. I can't say anything specific

DB: I think the important message for the community with this one would be, that we love the 3rd party tournaments as well. We love watching those, going to them and seeing them live etc. So we want to do stuff as well, and we want to promote E-Sports overall. <div class="insetQuote r">“We are trying to make this game as complete – like if nobody buys any other product, this game needs to be awesome. Like if Blizzard gets hit by a meteor tomorrow and we all die, at least Starcraft 2 was awesome – that's what it needs to be.”</div>We want E-Sports to grow and grow and grow – ideally with our game of course, but even in the wider world of everybody's games. We think E-Sports is an important component of what video games could become, and we want to take this opportunity with Starcraft 2 to push E-Sports forward. But, we really hope that lots of people out there see how fun it is and jump on board to make their own tournaments for our games or whoever's games. As long as we have a lot of E-Sports out there, we'll have more E-Sports players, more sites and bigger sites. It's just good for the business overall and because we put so much energy into it, it's good for us.

So we are really hoping that E-Sports, in the States specifically and in Europe as well takes off like it has in Korea where it's huge. We see that opportunity like “wow this is so fun, there's no reason this couldn't be a world-wide phenomenon” instead of one limited to a few places in the world.

December 2009, 2 months before WoL Beta launced. Whole interview is worth reading.

I also bring up the Muta stacking to Dustin Browder preobably every time I talk to him. He wants to include in in the game but the programming has troubles with it.

- Semioldguy, who reviewed SC2 alpha multiple times as Teamliquid press. June 22, 2009 (Source)

"Dustin Browder has noted a few times that they are looking for a solution to [the poor handling of mutalisks]. They have to "break" the engine in order to do it"

- Kennigit, July 20th 2008. (Source)

On October 27 2014 09:18 deth2munkies wrote:


Just think about it this way: what reason would they have to not add draft mode?

On October 27 2014 09:39 Serejai wrote:


Because it's Blizzard. They are lazy moneygrabbers and have halfassed every product they've released in the last 8 years. Explain to me why we are still giving them the benefit of the doubt after all of this time. Fool me once... But apparently some people can get fooled by Blizzard a dozen times and still blindly defend them. It has almost gotten as bad as Apple products.

Will there be a draft mode? Sure. But "common sense" doesn't dictate it will be at Blizzcon; fanboy-ism does. Common sense would actually dictate it will NOT be at Blizzcon given Blizzard's track record over the last decade.

On October 27 2014 09:45 deth2munkies wrote:


Put it this way, they wouldn't restrict SC2 to only 2v2 or 3v3. The esports mode is 1v1. In HotS, the esports mode is draft, the "fun" mode is normal vs.

On October 27 2014 06:05 xDaunt wrote:

Tassadar and Tyrael come to mind immediately. On the tankier side, maybe Arthas and Anub, but I don't have much experience with them.

On October 27 2014 09:59 kongoline wrote:
did they ever say they want hots to be competitive? all i remember is them saying they want it to be casual and fun, nothing serious, they could as well go with casual approach like they did with every recent game give no fuck about esport and just say they add it "soon".

On October 27 2014 10:54 Dismay wrote:

This is a bit anecdotal but Richard Lewis said on Unfiltered that one of the higher ups (Rob Pardo maybe?) confirmed when they were drinking at an event somewhere that Blizzard planned on it being ESPORTS as fuck.

I don't have a source on me because I can't remember what episode, but yeah.

On October 27 2014 11:38 LaLuSh wrote:


Yup, can't remember which episode it was either. It was Chris Sigaty he was talking with iirc.

Sigaty told him Blizz had "big plans" for Heroes as esports. Richard Lewis asked him what "big" meant, and told Sigaty it wouldn't really be considered big enough unless it blew every current ARTS/MOBA out of the water.

Sigaty repated it would be big, but Lewis had his doubts and seemed to think it would be something similar to SC2 WCS ^^

On October 27 2014 09:59 kongoline wrote:
did they ever say they want hots to be competitive? all i remember is them saying they want it to be casual and fun, nothing serious, they could as well go with casual approach like they did with every recent game give no fuck about esport and just say they add it "soon".

On October 27 2014 22:29 Hider wrote:
Anyone has a suggestion to which hero I should buy next?

Of the free heroes I liked Falcan the most. But then I bought Illidan and absolutely love this hero. I guess they both share a high mobility, and it's probably what I enjoy with them. In League I liked mages with skillshots the most and also mobile meele heroes such as Zed and Fizz, and I generally dislike tanky meele heroes.