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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
August 22 2009 00:27 GMT
#21
Wow....
Im speechless
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Nitro68
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
France470 Posts
August 22 2009 00:28 GMT
#22
I just hope you can make a channel, like, "Teamliquid" and anybody can join it (even if you are not friends).
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
August 22 2009 00:28 GMT
#23
didnt they follow that up with something like they plan to make more specific channels soon after release? Such as like, since they know TL is a huge community, they will make a TL channel... etc. I thought that is what I heard (without the example of TL)
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Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-22 00:41:21
August 22 2009 00:41 GMT
#24
Don't really care, IRC has always taken priority over bnet or any other service for gamers anyway.

edit: At least in Europe.
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danieldrsa
Profile Joined June 2008
Brazil523 Posts
August 22 2009 00:41 GMT
#25
On August 22 2009 09:28 Nitro68 wrote:
I just hope you can make a channel, like, "Teamliquid" and anybody can join it (even if you are not friends).


i think theyll do something like that
ppl can search channels and join them if you want
Surely somekind of general channel will exist
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Nitro68
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
France470 Posts
August 22 2009 00:42 GMT
#26
On August 22 2009 09:28 Skyze wrote:
didnt they follow that up with something like they plan to make more specific channels soon after release? Such as like, since they know TL is a huge community, they will make a TL channel... etc. I thought that is what I heard (without the example of TL)


Yes he said that.
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
August 22 2009 00:46 GMT
#27
On August 22 2009 09:06 Sadistx wrote:
I'm glad they won't have the channels, in my 10 years of playing blizzard games, I've never seen anything even remotely useful said in the pub channels. Channels should be created on demand only, so as to avoid unnecessary load on the servers, which will now have to manage a lot more information (achievements, advanced matchmaking, online replays (not at launch but someday), etc.)

Starcraft ONE has online replays. It's not a stress on the server, no more than a normal game anyway.
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Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
August 22 2009 00:48 GMT
#28
On August 22 2009 09:46 FrozenArbiter wrote:
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On August 22 2009 09:06 Sadistx wrote:
I'm glad they won't have the channels, in my 10 years of playing blizzard games, I've never seen anything even remotely useful said in the pub channels. Channels should be created on demand only, so as to avoid unnecessary load on the servers, which will now have to manage a lot more information (achievements, advanced matchmaking, online replays (not at launch but someday), etc.)

Starcraft ONE has online replays. It's not a stress on the server, no more than a normal game anyway.

I meant replays hosted online on blizzard servers that are accessible by everyone.
Captain Peabody
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3135 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-22 01:16:06
August 22 2009 01:15 GMT
#29
Did everyone somehow manage to miss the whole "chat-with-your-friends-whenever" thing?

Really, it's not a huge deal; chat channels are almost impossible to follow, and Battle.net will have improved connectivity over the original anyway, in all parts of the game (including, almost definitely, clan support). At the very least, I'd wait to get mad until we know more about how the system works...
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Crompee
Profile Joined December 2008
United Kingdom27 Posts
August 22 2009 01:25 GMT
#30
They are revamping it, so it really only means one thing:
At launch you'll have Party Chat, Private chat (Messaging with to people on your friends list) and game chat.
However, after launch they will implement a Group chat, where people can setup 'groups' and people can subscribe to that group. Like TeamLiquid would make a TeamLiquid Group and then members can subscribe to that group and talk like normal chat, however each group will have admins which can add group unique features such as news, bulletins, and even manage who is accepted in the group or not (i.e. you can have private groups).
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
August 22 2009 01:36 GMT
#31
What do they mean by chat channels? Like you can't type "/j op tl-west" and talk to other people in "op tl-west"?
ArvickHero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
10387 Posts
August 22 2009 01:48 GMT
#32
Blizzard baffles me, they should just drop the name Blizzard and just call themselves Activision. Whatever happened to "it's done when it's done"? Just why the hell are there no chat channels, a BASIC commodity that isn't even fucking hard to code and make??!! Revamping the system isn't even a good excuse, they can just give a damn chat channel like the old Battle.net while they make their revamps.

I still have yet to hear a single good reason on why there are no online replays either, its all full of bullshit.
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hsram
Profile Joined April 2009
United States30 Posts
August 22 2009 01:53 GMT
#33
What are us programmers going to do now that reverse engineering SC2 might be pointless?
Motiva
Profile Joined November 2007
United States1774 Posts
August 22 2009 02:02 GMT
#34
Yea, This is really absurd if you can't create your own private channels... I can't count the number of people I know from just meeting up in channels by chance. How the fuck am I supposed to find those people if they don't know where to meet me? lawl
Bosu
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3247 Posts
August 22 2009 02:06 GMT
#35
Not having public channels that you are automatically placed in is not a problem for me. However, if I can't join a channel with a bunch of other people it would be pretty terrible.

I am not going to freak out about it until beta/ launch. I can't imagine them not having chat channels that people can join similar to popular clan channels on bnet now.
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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
August 22 2009 02:52 GMT
#36
On August 22 2009 08:55 Chuiu wrote:
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On August 22 2009 08:50 Beaudereck wrote:
If they say they're planning to do things better, bet is that it's going to be better. The main goal of Blizzard is to sell the most copies they can, and it wouldn't be a good thing for them to cut off chat channels.

Once again, let's wait and see, but I'm pretty sure it'll be okay in the end...

Better != Better. You don't understand, the larger a company gets, the more distorted its perception of what better becomes.

EDIT: In retrospect, if its something like how they did WoW channels then it should be alright.

how did they do it in WoW?
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Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-22 03:27:49
August 22 2009 03:27 GMT
#37
On August 22 2009 11:52 Carnac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 22 2009 08:55 Chuiu wrote:
On August 22 2009 08:50 Beaudereck wrote:
If they say they're planning to do things better, bet is that it's going to be better. The main goal of Blizzard is to sell the most copies they can, and it wouldn't be a good thing for them to cut off chat channels.

Once again, let's wait and see, but I'm pretty sure it'll be okay in the end...

Better != Better. You don't understand, the larger a company gets, the more distorted its perception of what better becomes.

EDIT: In retrospect, if its something like how they did WoW channels then it should be alright.

how did they do it in WoW?

Well what I'm thinking of from WoW is you could basically create your own set of channels and autojoin them everytime you login and whatnot. Then from there you can moderate them, make them public/private, and any number of people could join them. Its similar to what we have now with bnet but a lot easier to manage and a lot better since you can be in more than one channel at once.

We can see a 'party chat' thing from bnet2.0 thread. That's really nice especially when you want to create games with a group of friends and have them in the game before any other slots are taken. But I hope that 'party chat' isn't the only form of group chat Blizzard gives us.
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Nitro68
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
France470 Posts
August 22 2009 03:56 GMT
#38
If you look at this picture :

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[image loading]


You can notice than even in game he has a chat with "daedoo" and another with a group "DreamX, Flywheel, ...".
Failsafe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1298 Posts
August 22 2009 03:57 GMT
#39
the more news that comes out about it, the more i think i'll buy a physical sc2 disc set so i can play frisbee with it and pretend that all this wait was for a more exciting frisbee set
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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66364 Posts
August 22 2009 03:58 GMT
#40
Wait.. B.Net 2.0 without chat?

What's the purpose of the B.Net 2.0 then -_-
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