Eventually no. But maybe still yes for the period right after HotS comes out, while we wait for people to figure out what's good and what's not in the game.

Zato-1

Chile4253 Posts

February 11 2013 00:35 GMT

#103

Will I still be interested in a version of HotS where Protoss air units are godawful, Zerg t2 ground army is worthless and Terran has no clear answer to mass chargelots? No, I'll have no interest in WoL tournaments.

Foxyshazam

United States38 Posts

February 11 2013 01:01 GMT

#104

In the last few months, my focus has shifted completely to HotS. WoL is no longer interesting to me.

Big-t

Austria1350 Posts

February 11 2013 08:25 GMT

#105

Why should I?

AGIANTSMURF

United States1232 Posts

February 11 2013 08:27 GMT

#106

I stopped caring about wol tournaments once i started playing the beta more heavily in January

rtem

Finland54 Posts

February 11 2013 12:24 GMT

#107

Eventually I probably wont really care to watch WoL once Hots kicks off properly but as it is wings seems much more balanced right now and most new hots strategies look a lot like the early cheesefest that was the wings beta and early GSLs. I suppose even with that in mind hots is gonna have a novelty factor but that goes only so far.

I guess lot of my interest in hots is gonna ride on how effectively Blizzard can nail down the balance before and after the launch.

ppshchik

United States862 Posts

February 11 2013 18:20 GMT

#108

My answer is yes, it's like comparing Jin Air OSL to GSL Season One. I'd rather see refined gameplays in older games than gimmicky cheeses in new games.

AneYe

Russian Federation9 Posts

February 11 2013 18:27 GMT

#109

It's a pity, but SC becomes more and more simple, so, it's less exсiting to watch the games. I personally prefer BW games with REAL macro games, deep strategic mindgames and so on. And in SC2 we have one, maybe two main big battles in the middle of the map and then "gg". And I afraid that it will be in the HOTS as well.

dirtydurb82

United States178 Posts

February 11 2013 20:27 GMT

#110

I think it is all about quality of play. Dynamic, intesne games are all anyone wants. Particular units are not necessarilly the keys to dynamic play.

Also, I'm not so sure about HOTS!!! Call me nuts, but the games haven't proven it will be a fun watch! TvT is Reaper into Hellbat drop (OP and boring) ZvT is blah WM play. PvT and PvZ really aren't that different! The only truly great change IMO is PvP, which has always been a really cool mirror (again, IMO), but will now be VERY exciting to watch, with quite a few varied builds. Seeing the stuff Grubby, White-Ra, and others are doing PvP-wise is very exciting.

niilzon

Belgium105 Posts

February 12 2013 11:39 GMT

#111

No, I'll be watching HOTS only. This is already what I do at the moment, my interest in WOL is completely gone since 2-3 months. HOTS looks promising, from what I played of the beta (about 100+ games) it looks great.

mcdoobyland

United States18 Posts

February 12 2013 14:36 GMT

#112

personally i had a lot of interest in WoL, but after some changes i decided to switch over to league of legends (yeah i know)
i think blizzard is failing to please their players and personally i think better companies are taking over.

NKB

United Kingdom608 Posts

February 12 2013 17:42 GMT

#113

I put not sure, I would possible watch a new WoL tournament depending on who is playing in it.

pigmanbear

Angola2010 Posts

February 12 2013 17:50 GMT

#114

On February 07 2013 19:10 HououinKyouma wrote:
HoTs units are so gimmicky imo.

Agreed 100%. I'm not going to play a game (or take one seriously as a fan) with crappy, childish units like the Viper and Swarm Host. I've tried to give HotS a chance, but it's just so dull to watch, nothing like WoL in the beta.

Sadly WoL is very stale, but this is just a symptom of the game mechanics: Things like warp-in, force-field, and fungal growth (mainly the first of the three) mean that you can only go so far with new maps. Add in mechanics that allow for hard-core powering on any map (MULE, inject larvae), and all the games look the same after a while.

Happily we have BW, and the scene seems to be perking up recently.

KookyMonster

United States311 Posts

February 13 2013 05:23 GMT

#115

Not at all. This would be similar to people playing in vanilla SC after BW had already been released. It doesn't make sense to play the same version of a game without the expansion.

BW is a different game completely than SCII, so it still makes sense to play that. Not much of reason to play or watch SCII:WoL after HotS is released.

cerb

Germany215 Posts

February 13 2013 11:12 GMT

#116

I do not see many reason for being interested in WoL after the release of HotS. Maybe a special event or tournament from time to time in WoL, but overall it will be all about HotS. I personally wont be interested in WoL anymore - not at all.

ViTaLiTy17

Canada16 Posts

February 13 2013 19:33 GMT

#117

its really unfortunate so many haters on WoL in this thread. i mean HotS is wicked with its perfectly balanced units like hellbats and speed medivacs and oracles. awesome game.

telfire

United States415 Posts

February 14 2013 00:24 GMT

#118

HoTS is less fun to play and watch. Balance is not part of the discussion, I know a lot of people have their unit to call "OP" or "UP" but that's really not what I'm getting at. The point is, the game is just more nerve-racking, more frustrating, and LESS FUN. The high-level games I have watched have also not been nearly as entertaining as the average WoL match, but that's how WoL was to start, it's possibly just a lack of meta game existing yet (or it's possibly, as I somewhat suspect, because the game is too unforgiving and therefore becoming more luck-based at a very high level of play and less skill-based.. but that's just my suspicion, it is too early to say for sure).

Sinedd

Poland7052 Posts

February 14 2013 10:28 GMT

#119

the community is going to be such a mess after they release all 3 games..

so scattered

they should just make 1 addon and fast after the release of the original (like BW) and then just balance the shit out of it..

I bet it would be awesome that way

Mongoose

United Kingdom190 Posts

February 14 2013 15:56 GMT

#120

HoTS is a joke, for games involving terran at least.

Games have turned into 1 base mine/hellion drop, where you use light-speed medivacs to drop mines over the entire half of the enemy base in 2 seconds and try to destroy all workers.
That's just cheesy, the whole game shouldn't be decided in 5 seconds of luck based micro.