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JamesLame
Profile Joined February 2010
Sweden25 Posts
May 29 2010 12:53 GMT
#1181
Wow, i can't belive Bnet 2.0 is actually 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
Well they wont be getting my money any time soon.
TBO
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany1350 Posts
May 29 2010 12:55 GMT
#1182
Is there a way to get this Steam Community overlay to work inside Starcraft 2? (I'm not very experienced with steam). Might make a good point to Blizzard if we get a big chat group going on the Service of one of their competitors...
Gammagoblin
Profile Joined May 2010
Finland7 Posts
May 29 2010 12:57 GMT
#1183
So far the game has been great, the lack of chat rooms has not been a negative side at all, remembers chat rooms of WarCraft III you shouldn't miss the chat. It's always a crapfest of idiots crying about something or calling other people crappy players or something. So I dont miss any of the public chat rooms, some private chat rooms will be missed though.

The things that I don't like are:

No LAN
Custom Map system
No Cross Realm play
(private chat channels?)

At the moment I don't understand why there couldn't be a system that allows players to play cross realms and why there couldn't be a "star league" for top players of each realm, and they could battle in the star league?

I don't know, hopefully they listen to the community, think a moment and work it out.
The land promises nothing and keeps it's promise.
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-29 13:03:59
May 29 2010 13:02 GMT
#1184
On May 29 2010 21:48 Captain Peabody wrote:
Show nested quote +
"Would you give SC2 a one-star rating on Amazon to protest BNET?


This is why I hate the Internet. I am not joking.

If you dislike the game enough to give it one stars, then do so. If you like it better than one star, then do so. But troll-y publicity stunts like this are both useless and dishonest, and make about as much difference to Blizzard as stupid petition threads where everyone posts "/signed."



Some of us are tired of waiting around for Blizzard to listen. If you have a better idea say it. Until than the ratings strategy has been proven in the past to get results but impacting the one thing all companies DO care about,

Their wallets.





So ill ask again

Poll: Would you give SC2 a one star amazon rating to protest BNET?

Yes (6508)
 
83%

No (1331)
 
17%

7839 total votes

Your vote: Would you give SC2 a one star amazon rating to protest BNET?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No


http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
Sight
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States148 Posts
May 29 2010 13:03 GMT
#1185
No chat channels? Are you serious?

Part of what made me love starcraft was the ability to connect, chat and talk to virtually anyone. I could meet one person, then that persons friends, and all the people they know simply as the flitted in and out of that channel. I could go to a channel regularly and meet new people. There were channels if I felt like trash talking. A lack of a chat room really really infuriates me. What do they mean their match making system will remove the need for a chat room? They realize chatrooms were used for more than setting up games right? Bnet as it is now is...shitty. Everyones isolated, for the most part, unless you know them. No room for meeting new people.

No Cross realm play is obviously the most stupid thing ever. I can't believe they didn't realize that would anger everyone beyond belief!

No lan. YOU GREEDY FUCKING WHORES. LAN IS NEEDED. YOU PIECES OF SHIT
sjh
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada136 Posts
May 29 2010 13:04 GMT
#1186
On May 29 2010 20:57 leveller wrote:
does anyone have any number as to the total amount of beta testers (or maybe only on US/EU I dont think there are too many asians here?)
Would be interesting to see how large of a percentage 3400 people voting no really are.


If you are talking about statistical analysis, then we can find the margin of error by talking 1 over the square root of the sample size, so for 3400, the margin of error is approx accurate to within 1.7% of the entire starcraft community regardless of the total population.
Ceterum ceseo Protatem esse delendam
WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3455 Posts
May 29 2010 13:13 GMT
#1187
The lack of channels is also a nightmare for admining a CW.

I mean you may very well have all of your teammates in your contact list. But part of what made CWs nice was to be able to chat with the other team too. Now you basically need to make line ups before hands (what if one of your players has an unexpected thing to do?) and you dont know who is online in the other team...

For the rest : i think SC2 is a decent game but bnet is just impossible. I can conceive the no LAN mode, but no cross server? Seriously? I m in Ireland and I lag A LOT when playing with some russian or greek friends. And i dont get how it is ok to play a game between a Canadian and an Argentinian but not between Dublin and Boston...
Horang2 fan
Mannerheim
Profile Joined April 2007
766 Posts
May 29 2010 13:15 GMT
#1188
My attitude towards SC2:

Pre-beta: Super hyped
During beta: Still excited
Now: Indifferent

So, what else is coming out this summer?
Vin{MBL}
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
5185 Posts
May 29 2010 13:19 GMT
#1189
The scary part for me is that things like chat rooms and crossrealm play (i.e. more "costumization) is what separates console from pc games, and furthermore separates regular game devs from exceptional ones (i.e. blizzard). With removing public chat rooms, it seems blizzard is moving bnet 2.0 more towards how console games handle online play, which frankly is complete shit and unarguably a step backwards.
Masq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1792 Posts
May 29 2010 13:21 GMT
#1190

it's the same thing with wow name changes, possible sc2 account resets/ changes /..., wow pve-to-pvp-transfers
if "the community wants it, we (blizzard) will implement it."

read:
If there are enough fools willing to pay for services which should be part of the product on release, it will get implemented sooner or later. FOR A FEE.


the pve-pvp transfer took like 4 years btw. I don't expect to wait 4 years to have a fucking chat channel so I can talk with friends without using the terrible "party" system.
DrakanSilva
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Chile932 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-29 13:23:28
May 29 2010 13:22 GMT
#1191
No chat rooms ? No custom game names ? No Lan ? No nothing ?

Jesus... what are they thinking.
In the beginning there was nothing... and then exploded
Oddysay
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada597 Posts
May 29 2010 13:28 GMT
#1192
On May 29 2010 22:22 Drakan wrote:
No chat rooms ? No custom game names ? No Lan ? No nothing ?

Jesus... what are they thinking.


maybe they dont think and that the problem
bull0563
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
112 Posts
May 29 2010 13:29 GMT
#1193
What happened to the it's done when it's done.
i feel there is so much stuff still lacking
Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
May 29 2010 13:29 GMT
#1194
They've all been replaced by changelings, this is the only logical solution.
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
hacpee
Profile Joined November 2007
United States752 Posts
May 29 2010 13:31 GMT
#1195
On May 29 2010 22:29 bull0563 wrote:
What happened to the it's done when it's done.
i feel there is so much stuff still lacking


Starcraft could have probably been released under the old bnet 6 months ago. Bnet 2.0 delayed the launch.
rotinegg
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States1719 Posts
May 29 2010 13:33 GMT
#1196
On May 29 2010 22:15 Mannerheim wrote:
My attitude towards SC2:

Pre-beta: Super hyped
During beta: Still excited
Now: Indifferent

So, what else is coming out this summer?

aeria games (the one that made hello kitty online, which was awesome) is starting a closed beta and i got an invite. want in? I don't really have time to play it this summer.
Translator
KingofHearts
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Japan562 Posts
May 29 2010 13:33 GMT
#1197
ill say boycott sc2 until they meet our demands . hit them where it matters most for them, money and profit.
moshi moshi~
Captain Peabody
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3128 Posts
May 29 2010 13:33 GMT
#1198
Nope. No plans for specific chat rooms at this time. You'll be able to open up chats direct with your friends, and when we add clans and groups there'll be chats for your clans and groups, but no specific plans for chat rooms right now. Do you really want chat rooms?


A few days ago, someone posted a thread where he pointed out that the public chat channel system in Bnet was basically a huge mess and a failure. In that thread, everyone immediately cried foul and pointed out that all they really wanted were private clan chat channels, which is the only place people hung out anyway. Now, Frank Pearce has confirmed that there will be private clan chat channels, but there will not be public chat channels...and everyone is baying for his blood.

To be fair, perhaps they meant merely private chat channels that were not clan-related. But most of the examples people brought up were clan chat channels.

Bashiok also recently posted basically that to the best of his knowledge nothing has changed in this regard, and what Browder and Sigaty said about a month ago still holds true...namely, that while they have no plans for chat rooms a la Bnet, they're planning to create a more topical, focused discussion groups with moderation.

See:

Chris Sigaty said:
One of the biggest features that I'd like to see get in as soon as possible that won't be in there for launch is Groups. Groups is a concept of creating an entity like a map-making community so they can chat with each other and hang out. I don't have a date on that yet. It's past the tournament patch but its definitely one of the earlier features we'd like to see. Whether it happens in the patch or it happens in Expansion One, I don't know yet. There's a huge list of stuff on the Battle.net side that we really want to have happen but we don't have dates on it. Beyond that you're talking about actual constructions different than a group-like clan, I don't even have dates on that stuff, for now. I don't think that's in right now for the tournament patch.


So...no public chat channels, but the equivalent of clan chat channels post launch, and so-called "groups" that are basically focused, moderated chat rooms, also post-launch.

I fail to understand the utter rage this is creating.
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leveller
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1840 Posts
May 29 2010 13:34 GMT
#1199
On May 29 2010 22:15 Mannerheim wrote:
My attitude towards SC2:

Pre-beta: Super hyped
During beta: Still excited
Now: Indifferent

So, what else is coming out this summer?


Civ 5! Now it uses hexes
Sight
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States148 Posts
May 29 2010 13:36 GMT
#1200
On May 29 2010 22:04 sjh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 20:57 leveller wrote:
does anyone have any number as to the total amount of beta testers (or maybe only on US/EU I dont think there are too many asians here?)
Would be interesting to see how large of a percentage 3400 people voting no really are.


If you are talking about statistical analysis, then we can find the margin of error by talking 1 over the square root of the sample size, so for 3400, the margin of error is approx accurate to within 1.7% of the entire starcraft community regardless of the total population.

Only if TL is not a self-skewing sample (which it is)
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