Option to Disable Replay Saving - Page 4

On October 06 2009 16:55 timmeh wrote:
I think no-one here is advocating the the removal of replays in its entirety but just having the option to if one would like to keep his unique strategy (not build order) concealed.

Build orders and strategy will even be open to analysis with just VODs anyway. But at least they don't reveal every click a player makes.

On October 06 2009 09:11 BluzMan wrote:
Oh an yeah, consider this scenario:

<scenario>

I'm a noobie that has shown some promise and I've just had my first sexual intercourse yesterday, the stars aligned perfectly and my country just won the World Soccer champ, so, even though I'm usually mediocre, today I'm on fire. Inexplicable luck matches me against Boxer and even though he executes some brilliant build vs me I get super lucky and manage to pull it off, winning a 45 minute long game full of thrilling action that is officially my best StarCraft for now or maybe even forever.

Now I'm just choking with excitement and guess what? I want to share it with friends. I want everyone to know that I've beat Boxer and in a very entertaining manner. And now click "Save Replay"... Stop! WHAT?

"Player Boxer has not allowed replay saving".

</scenario>

I can imagine people quitting the game after this. Don't rip people off their victories, like some other dirty business we all men do it, but never tell each other about it - we save our own replays. Memorable games that we sometimes watch. I would hate winning vs a better player and not being able to save the replay.

On October 05 2009 22:34 MasterOfChaos wrote:
Over bnet it won't work anyways(a client side hack can remove the restriction). And for pro-games kespa can simply set a policy that replays may not be taken home by the players.

@ProoM that's technically impossible. The players can simply hack their starcraft client when watching the replay offline.

On October 07 2009 03:09 spkim1 wrote:
Absolutely ridiculous suggestion. Keep in mind that Blizzard thoroughly looks at this forum. Posting stupid suggestions like this can mess up their way of thinking and opens up possibilities for making SC2 worse than it is now. They've made enough mistakes of this kind so far, including making people update their copy of Starcraft 2 every once in a while and disabling LAN games. Now you want them to disable replays? Are you trying to drive every future potential SC2 customer away from this game or what? Please think about the consequences before posting this kind of stuff.

On October 07 2009 04:32 Equinox_kr wrote:


Well you COULD make Starcraft only work online but that's ridiculously impractical as well.

On October 07 2009 13:14 ArvickHero wrote:
Replays will be far more in-depth in SC2 right? That should be a huge concern for all pros, because that would not only make strategic players far weaker, but it'll also be used against every top player to find every tiny crack in their armor to exploit and abuse. With the decrease of mechanical skill requirements, it becomes even easier for unknowns to topple top players. This is assuming that SC2's replays are very in-depth, which I think they are.

Rather than disabling the replay feature, there should be a choice between saving the replay as a "basic" replay option like that of BW's, and the normal replay option which will be super in-depth and everything.