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"The Future Of SC2": Unit Skins and Voice Packs - Page 2

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eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
November 06 2015 21:44 GMT
#21
Abathur voice pack, TAKE MY $$$$!
ㅇㅅㅌㅅ
Hider
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Denmark9433 Posts
November 06 2015 22:01 GMT
#22
Unless they build a proper business model around skins and microtransactions, it's not gonna be anything more than a gimmick. Given that they provide so little information and developing a proper system is very expensive, I think they are just going for the "gimmick"-approach here.
Gaelic
Profile Joined December 2011
United States44 Posts
November 06 2015 22:05 GMT
#23
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.
In the game of throws, you win... until you lose.
Hider
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Denmark9433 Posts
November 06 2015 22:07 GMT
#24
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


The best-case scenario is that they make the game F2P 8-12 months from now on and finance the game through F2P-microtraansactions. I think that's way too late for F2P too have a noticeable impact on the playerbase and the learning curve is also way too high for the game. F2P games generally makes more sense to games with a low learning curve since it requires a great deal of commitment.
MstrJinbo
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1251 Posts
November 06 2015 22:26 GMT
#25
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


True, but what you are missing is that there is now confirmation that there will be future development on the sc2 client. I find that exciting in itself. It might not work out but I like that blizzard is committed to try.
ObeseHydra
Profile Joined March 2013
Brazil196 Posts
November 06 2015 22:30 GMT
#26
Abathur voice pack? TAKE MY CREDIT CARD NOW, BLIZZARD!
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
November 06 2015 22:35 GMT
#27
Omg Abathur!
I am worried if we all switch to zerg at ladder because of Abathur
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 22:49:50
November 06 2015 22:48 GMT
#28
On November 07 2015 07:01 Hider wrote:
Unless they build a proper business model around skins and microtransactions, it's not gonna be anything more than a gimmick. Given that they provide so little information and developing a proper system is very expensive, I think they are just going for the "gimmick"-approach here.


Pretty sure we're still talking about Blizzard here, which has released a game with full-blown skin support in the SC2 Engine. It's funnily enough even called "HotS" for short.


But seriously: Skins themselves are a gimmick. What do you expect them to do? If you can buy skins and slap them on your units/buildings, thats enough. Give updated skins regularly. Done.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
November 06 2015 22:53 GMT
#29
Paid mods, paid episodic campaigns, paid co-op missions, cosmetic microtransactions are good ideas, they are a small step in moving towards a sustainable business model for the continued development of SC2, although more needs to be sold.

The goals for the ladder revamp is just repeating what they already said earlier this year, nothing new. And without details on how they'll specifically do it, there's nothing to really comment on.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 22:55:12
November 06 2015 22:55 GMT
#30
On November 07 2015 07:07 Hider wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


The best-case scenario is that they make the game F2P 8-12 months from now on and finance the game through F2P-microtraansactions. I think that's way too late for F2P too have a noticeable impact on the playerbase and the learning curve is also way too high for the game. F2P games generally makes more sense to games with a low learning curve since it requires a great deal of commitment.

They should, but can't, make multiplayer F2P until they fix their game engine to prevent maphacks.
Timelog
Profile Joined May 2015
Netherlands57 Posts
November 06 2015 23:02 GMT
#31
On November 07 2015 07:55 paralleluniverse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2015 07:07 Hider wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


The best-case scenario is that they make the game F2P 8-12 months from now on and finance the game through F2P-microtraansactions. I think that's way too late for F2P too have a noticeable impact on the playerbase and the learning curve is also way too high for the game. F2P games generally makes more sense to games with a low learning curve since it requires a great deal of commitment.

They should, but can't, make multiplayer F2P until they fix their game engine to prevent maphacks.
Hacks are broken at the moment with no clear info if it will ever be really possible to hack again so.

But F2P would be terrible... Think of all the smurfs that would destroy any fun that is there in the lower leagues by crushing every sincere bronze/silver/gold player. No, keep f2p as far away from multi as possible, for that you have the arcade.
Terrible Starcraft 2 player, SC2 EU Battle.Net MVP and overall gaming enthousiast.
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 23:03:06
November 06 2015 23:02 GMT
#32
On November 07 2015 08:02 Timelog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2015 07:55 paralleluniverse wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:07 Hider wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


The best-case scenario is that they make the game F2P 8-12 months from now on and finance the game through F2P-microtraansactions. I think that's way too late for F2P too have a noticeable impact on the playerbase and the learning curve is also way too high for the game. F2P games generally makes more sense to games with a low learning curve since it requires a great deal of commitment.

They should, but can't, make multiplayer F2P until they fix their game engine to prevent maphacks.
Hacks are broken at the moment with no clear info if it will ever be really possible to hack again so.

But F2P would be terrible... Think of all the smurfs that would destroy any fun that is there in the lower leagues by crushing every sincere bronze/silver/gold player. No, keep f2p as far away from multi as possible, for that you have the arcade.

I'm pretty sure people were talking about how hacks were already back. I really don't think smurfs are the issue compared to hacking.
'StarCraft is just a fairy tale told to scare children actually.'
TL+ Member
Chessz
Profile Joined August 2010
United States644 Posts
November 06 2015 23:03 GMT
#33
So did Morhaime say in the keynote we should expect "mission packs", basically paid DLC?

And how can we be sure the skins and voice packs will be a success given how many skins they've made for the units/buildings already.. which is next to nothing, in comparison with other games
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
November 06 2015 23:06 GMT
#34
What does separate MMR per race mean?

Is it just for internal matchmaking, or will there be displayed ranked per race determined by the race-specific MMR?
Timelog
Profile Joined May 2015
Netherlands57 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 23:12:48
November 06 2015 23:09 GMT
#35
On November 07 2015 08:02 Ansibled wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 07 2015 08:02 Timelog wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:55 paralleluniverse wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:07 Hider wrote:
On November 07 2015 07:05 Gaelic wrote:
Alot of these features sound great, but it is pretty disappointing that LOTV ships next week and none of these seem to be included. So much more "coming soon" is pretty frustrating, I feel like most of these should have been ready for the ship date.


The best-case scenario is that they make the game F2P 8-12 months from now on and finance the game through F2P-microtraansactions. I think that's way too late for F2P too have a noticeable impact on the playerbase and the learning curve is also way too high for the game. F2P games generally makes more sense to games with a low learning curve since it requires a great deal of commitment.

They should, but can't, make multiplayer F2P until they fix their game engine to prevent maphacks.
Hacks are broken at the moment with no clear info if it will ever be really possible to hack again so.

But F2P would be terrible... Think of all the smurfs that would destroy any fun that is there in the lower leagues by crushing every sincere bronze/silver/gold player. No, keep f2p as far away from multi as possible, for that you have the arcade.

I'm pretty sure people were talking about how hacks were already back. I really don't think smurfs are the issue compared to hacking.

I haven't seen threads about hacking being back on either Reddit, TL or the official B.Net forums, so if you have a source that it is back I'd be happy if you can share it. But imo hacks never have been as big as a problem as people made it out to be. I think in al my time playing StarCraft 2 I have faced obvious hackers maybe 5 times if not less. Sure, there are sometimes situations which feel like the opponent was hacking, but often it was more likely a lucky situation where he blind-countered my build/moves. In the end I have been accused of hacking more then I have faced a hacker in my experience.

Also, having the ladder being F2P also makes banning hackers less effective.

On November 07 2015 08:06 paralleluniverse wrote:
What does separate MMR per race mean?

Is it just for internal matchmaking, or will there be displayed ranked per race determined by the race-specific MMR?

No really specific information has been released as of yet. More will be discussed at the Multiplayer panel later during BlizzCon.
Terrible Starcraft 2 player, SC2 EU Battle.Net MVP and overall gaming enthousiast.
Timelog
Profile Joined May 2015
Netherlands57 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 23:12:36
November 06 2015 23:11 GMT
#36
- merged posts -
Terrible Starcraft 2 player, SC2 EU Battle.Net MVP and overall gaming enthousiast.
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
November 06 2015 23:16 GMT
#37
I saw a Reddit thread talking about it but I searched and I can't find it so maybe it got deleted or was wrong or something.
'StarCraft is just a fairy tale told to scare children actually.'
TL+ Member
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-06 23:27:44
November 06 2015 23:27 GMT
#38
Interesting article on Polygon, especially the last section about smaller scale, episodic storytelling in the SC universe, post-LotV, which is an excellent idea: StarCraft: The past, present and future
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
November 07 2015 00:39 GMT
#39
Multiplayer panel starting shortly. I'm very interested in this one.
Wat
ilikeredheads
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada1995 Posts
November 07 2015 00:48 GMT
#40
inb4 we see candy crush style microtransactions

"buy blizzard points to increase supply limit!!"

tbh, I don't want sc2 to become some freemium game. There's already heartstone and HotS for that.
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