On May 11 2010 08:35 Zeke50100 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 11 2010 08:32 Paperscraps wrote:On May 11 2010 07:54 Zeke50100 wrote:On May 11 2010 05:53 mynameisbean wrote:
lol okay okay, wait up.
How is this any different to pre-game chatrooms?
That's completely besides the point. What we're talking about is the lack of CHAT CHANNELS. This right here is a mock-up chat channel in the form of a map to be used as a (satirical) demonstration.
Basically this entire thread is spitting in blizzard's face and calling them incompetent. I don't know when it happened, but people forgot this is beta. We are not playing the game to
socialize, we are playing the game to
balance it. I don't understand the constant ignorant bicker over a feature which will obviously come in the future. Less talk more balance imo.
Except their reasonings for not including this relatively simple feature are pretty weak.
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.
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