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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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wonksaggin
United States73 Posts
On June 15 2010 14:45 Baarn wrote: Nobody from Blizzard sits and monitors the public chat channels in WoW. You just type whatever and hope someone doesn't report you. It's not like you get more than a warning anyway. Why would Starcraft 2 be so special to require additional staff? i believe its because SC2 is rated TEEN | ||
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RumZ
United States956 Posts
So is WoW. | ||
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RaiZ
2813 Posts
On June 15 2010 14:11 Takkara wrote: You really think you can monitor and police potentially millions of users worldwide 24 hours a day with only 100 people? You really think the game will last only 3 years? You really think the average salary of all their worldwide employees and support staff will be only 20,000? I'm sorry but you're massively massively underestimating things. Neither of us has the figures in front of us, so it's fruitless to take this argument much farther than this, but I'm sorry, you're just way underestimating. Actually he isn't underestimating it really :p It's even lower. You'd be surprised at how many ppl would want to be a gm for way less than 20k/y salary  | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
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Klumaster
United Kingdom36 Posts
On June 15 2010 16:19 RaiZ wrote: Actually he isn't underestimating it really :p It's even lower. You'd be surprised at how many ppl would want to be a gm for way less than 20k/y salary But they wouldn't be a GM, they'd just be a chat-channel babysitter. Seems less exciting than a full-blown MMO GM. | ||
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StarStruck
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
On June 15 2010 13:51 Holzmann wrote: I hear you. I have one simple problem: I'm moving to a different country a few months after release. I've scoured the SC2 beta forums as well as this forum looking for a simple answer: will I be forced to play in the region I buy the game in or will I be able to play in the realm where I'll be living? I expected to find a simple answer because and I've never played a video game where this was even a potential problem. I didn't find an answer, so I e-mailed Blizzard support. Their reply? Go to the SC2 forums. I replied that I, of course, already did that and I e-mailed them because I couldn't find an answer there. I just got a reply to my second e-mail: This is from Blizzard. I would have never expected this kind of incompetence and disrespect from a company like Blizzard, which was, up until very recently, one of the few companies in any industry I had any kind of trust in. All I had was a simple question and I'm left with this bitter realization that Blizzard isn't the company I thought it was. I cancelled my preorder and I've lost all the excitement over SC2 I've built up over the past few years. Wow....I mean no I guess I did mean Wow Just Wow. Thats depressing. | ||
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XenoJesus
United States72 Posts
As for cross-realm play, Blizzard (or just Activision) may just stay greedy, I hope not though. | ||
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Half
United States2554 Posts
You realize in many circles that defines "Corporate greed" and "exploitation" and "Poor customer support" right? | ||
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BamBam
745 Posts
On June 16 2010 00:52 XenoJesus wrote: There is no way that chat channels and LAN will be completely out of the question for SC2. Those are two very integral parts of RTS gaming, and online gaming communities in general. At some point, they will arrive. As for cross-realm play, Blizzard may just stay greedy, I hope not though. You cant be serious. -_- There WONT be chat channels, there will be 'group chat'. There WONT be LAN, Ever... dont even think for a moment blizzard will give the playerbase any means to play sc2 online without going through b.net. There WONT be cross-realm play, not until maybe the second expansion. How do I know? Because do you really think blizzard after all these years of planing b.net would all of a sudden go the opposite direction because of a few SC fansites say its 'necessary' for esports? Thinking otherwise is just being naive and optimistic. Best thing you can do? Give them a 1 star on amazon, acquire a copy from someplace or someone to play singeplayer, and await for someone to make a emulator for b.net (LAN). | ||
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GGruss
Sweden121 Posts
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Goga[OEP]
13 Posts
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Kindred
Canada396 Posts
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Skee
Canada702 Posts
Battle.net 2.0 will evolve rapidly by the second expansion I have no reason to think there will not be chat channels, maybe not at release. Would you rather have them delay it 3 months? Nothing can be said about cross-realm play right now, but I imagine that it will be possible by Legacy of The Void. On June 15 2010 15:12 wonksaggin wrote: Nobody from Blizzard sits and monitors the public chat channels in WoW. You just type whatever and hope someone doesn't report you. It's not like you get more than a warning anyway. Why would Starcraft 2 be so special to require additional staff? Censoring can be turned off in the options. It would not matter if Starcraft II was rated Teen because ESRB does not rate online interactions. | ||
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Radiomouse
Netherlands209 Posts
On June 16 2010 03:46 mity wrote: Starcraft II Professional edition will include LAN and be available to tournament organizers and probably major LAN host. Battle.net 2.0 will evolve rapidly by the second expansion I have no reason to think there will not be chat channels, maybe not at release. Would you rather have them delay it 3 months? Nothing can be said about cross-realm play right now, but I imagine that it will be possible by Legacy of The Void. If a game developer spends 3 months on implementing a function they already have lying about i would think that they should get their act together. And about cross-realm play, there is no reason to assume they will put it in later, seeing as how it also is a function they already have had on their games four times, fitting it in should NOT take 2 years. If people still think blizzard leaves out LAN, Chat rooms and cross region interaction because of limitations to their coding staff i think you might slightly be overestimating the effort these already implemented functions on their old servers are to code. Or you think theres a bunch of lower primates working at blizzard. | ||
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Darpinion
United States210 Posts
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XenoJesus
United States72 Posts
On June 16 2010 01:13 Energizer wrote: You cant be serious. -_- There WONT be chat channels, there will be 'group chat'. There WONT be LAN, Ever... dont even think for a moment blizzard will give the playerbase any means to play sc2 online without going through b.net. There WONT be cross-realm play, not until maybe the second expansion. How do I know? Because do you really think blizzard after all these years of planing b.net would all of a sudden go the opposite direction because of a few SC fansites say its 'necessary' for esports? Thinking otherwise is just being naive and optimistic. Best thing you can do? Give them a 1 star on amazon, acquire a copy from someplace or someone to play singeplayer, and await for someone to make a emulator for b.net (LAN). You CAN'T be serious, either. No one "knows" anything for sure, yet. It's all speculation; the game is in beta! We're all so angry over things not 100% confirmed yet. Yeah, the future doesn't look exceptionally bright for these features but it doesn't rule them 100% out of the question. | ||
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AJMcSpiffy
United States1154 Posts
On June 16 2010 01:13 Energizer wrote: You cant be serious. -_- There WONT be chat channels, there will be 'group chat'. There WONT be LAN, Ever... dont even think for a moment blizzard will give the playerbase any means to play sc2 online without going through b.net. There WONT be cross-realm play, not until maybe the second expansion. How do I know? Because do you really think blizzard after all these years of planing b.net would all of a sudden go the opposite direction because of a few SC fansites say its 'necessary' for esports? Thinking otherwise is just being naive and optimistic. Best thing you can do? Give them a 1 star on amazon, acquire a copy from someplace or someone to play singeplayer, and await for someone to make a emulator for b.net (LAN). There's a thread on TL about how Baishok recently made a post saying there will be private chat channels (thread here), and they announced a SC2 version for tournament organizers with LAN included (which I'm sure will be pirated soon enough, followed by an official release). The "solution" to any of these problems is not to give false ratings on Amazon. It's not an active way of addressing the problems, just another forum to complain about them on. Edit: messed up the link | ||
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iloahz
United States964 Posts
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