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torm3ntin
Brazil2534 Posts
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suejak
Japan545 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:35 Nytefish wrote: Did you ever play on bnet? Channels were so useful for so many things: 1. Meeting random friends of friends or strangers. 2. Gathering place for teams/clans. 3. Place to go when looking for casual 1v1s (like op ToT on europe). 4. Organsing tournaments/events/clan wars/showmatches/competitions/etc. 5. Somewhere to simply idle or chat like an IRC channel. 6. Simply being able to see people rather than stare at some bland menu. It's just a really important social aspect of the game so chat channels or something similar is simply a requirement for anyone who's not a robot. 7. YELLING LIKE A TOURETTE'S SUFFERER ABOUT THE bURNING, THE BURNNNNING 8. Virtual sex 9. Undirected trash talk 10. TL-like bitching about everything | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
On May 10 2010 08:26 Catch]22 wrote: Even in retrospect, I'd rather have the beta out earlier, than time wasted on chat. I wouldn't. Usually I don't post in SC2 because I no longer play, but this really struck me. I think removing chat channels at the release of beta killed a lot of the social aspect for the entire community - most people played SC2 (including me for a while), but the lack of chat took away a lot of the fun - couldn't go back to BW because there was no one there either. Basically, both ICCup and SC2Bnet felt like empty voids of laddering, which is no fun for me personally. Yes you can have one on one conversations, but is that really optimal for weeks, months, years? | ||
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pat965
Canada274 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:39 suejak wrote: 7. YELLING LIKE A TOURETTE'S SUFFERER ABOUT THE bURNING, THE BURNNNNING 8. Virtual sex 9. Undirected trash talk 10. TL-like bitching about everything Honestly can't tell if you're for chat rooms or not, since those reasons aren't really good or bad. | ||
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suejak
Japan545 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:45 pat965 wrote: Honestly can't tell if you're for chat rooms or not, since those reasons aren't really good or bad. No man, I am pro-chat. | ||
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etch
Canada176 Posts
TL: A hiccup? Blizzard: Yes, see to implement chat rooms... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it... TL: Wait, wait, the technology? [gestures towards Brood War] here is the technology! I've asked you to simply make it work for Bnet 2.0. Blizzard: Yes, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible- TL: UNGOOD WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! | ||
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AnodyneSea
Jamaica757 Posts
On May 10 2010 08:15 Lightwip wrote: Cool. Can you make LAN in the map editor now? ROFL | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:35 Nytefish wrote: Did you ever play on bnet? Channels were so useful for so many things: 1. Meeting random friends of friends or strangers. 2. Gathering place for teams/clans. 3. Place to go when looking for casual 1v1s (like op ToT on europe). 4. Organsing tournaments/events/clan wars/showmatches/competitions/etc. 5. Somewhere to simply idle or chat like an IRC channel. 6. Simply being able to see people rather than stare at some bland menu. It's just a really important social aspect of the game so chat channels or something similar is simply a requirement for anyone who's not a robot. Couldn't you just use irc/vent/mumble for all of this? Just playing a little devil's advocate, but I don't see it as a big deal(I rarely used chat in wc3 even before I discovered IRC). I mean I suppose it's better to be there than have nothing, but it's not breaking my heart at the thought of it taking a bit to implement. | ||
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SuperXlax
United States197 Posts
Dustin Browder: Well, we're working on the chat channels but the reason they are delayed is that we have something, which we think is much better than what we had in the original games. In the original games the chat channels were used by some of our users but they were largely misused just for spam. It was kind of a mess that they weren't focused on only one particular topic. While we definitely feel the fans sort of enthusiasm to get them back, we don't want those chat channels back. We feel like those chat channels were not a huge success for us and we can do them much better. So we will be looking into chat channels down the road that are more focused on specific topics, that are better organized around different social structures. We could certainly just jam the old channels back in but we didn't feel like those were a huge success for us. But we really want this thing back, just much more interesting than before. So we're definitely working on it and we definitely hear the users' complains, but we think we can do better down the road. Source: http://starcraft2.ingame.de/sc2cl/?m=article&s=1034&id=102427&p=2 | ||
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-Valor-
United States283 Posts
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Puciek
Poland23 Posts
On May 10 2010 11:13 SuperXlax wrote: He should go for a president, he just gave long speech without actually saying anything. For all we know they can call facebook integration a "better" chat.So where does DB actually say chat channels won't be at release? Because in this interview he says they're making something better then the broodwar chat channels for B.net 2.0. Source: http://starcraft2.ingame.de/sc2cl/?m=article&s=1034&id=102427&p=2 | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9376 Posts
On May 10 2010 11:13 SuperXlax wrote: So where does DB actually say chat channels won't be at release? Because in this interview he says they're making something better then the broodwar chat channels for B.net 2.0. Source: http://starcraft2.ingame.de/sc2cl/?m=article&s=1034&id=102427&p=2 What's more impressive, is the fact that DB, didn't say much he just said "they weren't successful for us", and "we will do better later". what? | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45681 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:53 etch wrote: Blizzard: We've explored what you've asked of us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually, um... TL: A hiccup? Blizzard: Yes, see to implement chat rooms... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it... TL: Wait, wait, the technology? [gestures towards Brood War] here is the technology! I've asked you to simply make it work for Bnet 2.0. Blizzard: Yes, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible- TL: UNGOOD WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! LOL and I love Iron Man. | ||
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Tomer
United States105 Posts
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hellobye
Canada82 Posts
On May 10 2010 10:53 etch wrote: Blizzard: We've explored what you've asked of us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually, um... TL: A hiccup? Blizzard: Yes, see to implement chat rooms... sir, the technology doesn't actually exist. So it... TL: Wait, wait, the technology? [gestures towards Brood War] here is the technology! I've asked you to simply make it work for Bnet 2.0. Blizzard: Yes, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but... honestly, it's impossible- TL: UNGOOD WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS! Blizzard: but sir, I'm not ungood. | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
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Kerotan89
United Kingdom51 Posts
Its like we are backtracking on technology and features in games, in 10years time its going to be: Blizzard: Starcraft 3 - We have come up with a great idea, and that is being able to chat in public rooms in B.Net 3.0! No more pesky IRC channels guys! Any FPS developer (Mainly the CoD ones) - We have come up with the best idea ever! Now you can host your OWN dedicated servers and can control everything how you want! No more lobby systems! And theres going to be that tiny guy who squeaks, "Hey, wasnt those features already in SC:BW/WC3/Diablo and Call of Duty, Counterstike?" | ||
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
On May 10 2010 08:15 Lightwip wrote: Cool. Can you make LAN in the map editor now? lol. love the layout of the chat it looks great. | ||
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omnigol
United States166 Posts
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ungood
United States75 Posts
On May 10 2010 11:54 Kerotan89 wrote: And theres going to be that tiny guy who squeaks, "Hey, wasnt those features already in SC:BW/WC3/Diablo and Call of Duty, Counterstike?" Damn kids these days.  | ||
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still looks nice. Not too usefull but still nice to show how lazy blizzard was.
