Just watch them ignore cross realm issues. Online/no lan is to kill kespas power nothing else.

You will never see Lan until all the contracts are setup in korea locking those companies together under blizzards terms via GOM. ONLY after that Lan might see light of day in some form but don't count on it as they want to make sure they control China tourneys too where they wouldn't be able to rely on any offical routes to getting what they wanted if they ever bring out anyform of lan play in a client as then you'd see an ICCUP style server go up insanely fast in China. And there would be no way for them to control anything after that as with the editor a single version of the client could be used with lan play with custom maps and that would be the end of Blizzard power in china.

Anything that costs them any amount of potential money won't happen. We will probably be given word that chat channels will come down the line and maybe get it in a year or three. Remember there track record is quite terrible regardless of how long they support a game in half assed manner.

Champi

1422 Posts

June 05 2010 00:33 GMT

#50

grats on being heard by blizzard, hope u manage to make a direct influence on some changes

Inkblood

United States463 Posts

June 05 2010 00:35 GMT

#51

Good to see that Blizzard has taken in the feedback, now hopefully they'll be able to implement some fixes. Good job kittens.

My faith in them had been wavering slightly, but if they do a good job fixes some of these issues, then my faith may yet be restored. (Though I always expected single player to be great.) Still, no matter what happens, I shall withhold my final judgment until the game comes out.

Navi

5286 Posts

June 05 2010 00:36 GMT

#52

nice vid

ky00t kittens get results qwik

Eeeegor

Australia809 Posts

June 05 2010 00:37 GMT

#53

This is awesome news :D

mmp

United States2130 Posts

June 05 2010 00:38 GMT

#54

They want to release their game soon. I think they just want people to shut up and stop down-rating them.

Parnage

United States7414 Posts

June 05 2010 00:38 GMT

#55

Oh Husky you've saved the community with power of Kittens. Good job buddy! I knew thar was a reason I subscribed to you all those months ago. <3

Keep up the good work

Oh and umm, to all the doomsayers of some sort about activision blizzard empire of evil sillyness, good day sir. Good day.

Kitten rule by the way. Give them kittens a reward.

ymirheim

Sweden300 Posts

June 05 2010 00:40 GMT

#56

This is good news, nice to see a response and a validation that they actually do follow the forums and take in our concerns. I did still believe, or want to believe that Blizzard was still that company that had a passion for good games and listened to its fans that I have known and loved since warcraft 2 but I hope that this is the sign that this faith was not misplaced.

Although when it comes to fixes, I think people need to get their hopes straight, there are certain things that Blizzard for very specific reasons will not want to or even be able to fix, those would be LAN support and full cross server play. I wouldn't get hopes up for those. Not saying I wouldn't want them but its not going to happen I'm afraid.

However things that they can address and I think this might be a good sign that they will is stuff like chat rooms, refining the ladder system, and while not explicitly implementing cross server play directly I think they may very well add functionality for us to get all clients for all regions without having to buy the game several times.

If anything I hope they at the very least fix the chat rooms just so that I can get an apology from all those people who literally sent me borderline death threats through PM just for saying that I was confident that chat rooms would eventually be fixed.

Talic_Zealot

688 Posts

June 05 2010 00:41 GMT

#57

I really honestly hope that this tones down the general tone of the forum..

nihlon

Sweden5581 Posts

June 05 2010 00:42 GMT

#58

On June 05 2010 09:40 ymirheim wrote:
This is good news, nice to see a response and a validation that they actually do follow the forums and take in our concerns. I did still believe, or want to believe that Blizzard was still that company that had a passion for good games and listened to its fans that I have known and loved since warcraft 2 but I hope that this is the sign that this faith was not misplaced.

Although when it comes to fixes, I think people need to get their hopes straight, there are certain things that Blizzard for very specific reasons will not want to or even be able to fix, those would be LAN support and full cross server play. I wouldn't get hopes up for those. Not saying I wouldn't want them but its not going to happen I'm afraid.

However things that they can address and I think this might be a good sign that they will is stuff like chat rooms, refining the ladder system, and while not explicitly implementing cross server play directly I think they may very well add functionality for us to get all clients for all regions without having to buy the game several times.

If anything I hope they at the very least fix the chat rooms just so that I can get an apology from all those people who literally sent me borderline death threats through PM just for saying that I was confident that chat rooms would eventually be fixed.

My sentiment exactly.

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

June 05 2010 00:44 GMT

#59

Thanks god!!!

It is only good that they fix the issues, not only for us and SC2 itself, but for the e-sport scene that hopefully will grow even stronger after SC2 release!!!

in 1.5 year we will be screaming "GARIMTO fighting!!!!"

Plethora

United States206 Posts

June 05 2010 00:45 GMT

#60

Provided they address things on a specific level (I'm not going to change my opinion on Bnet 2.0 if they just give a blanket "we heard all your complaints and we'll fix them later" sort of answer), and there is at least some give on some things I'll be happy.

Giving us LAN is probably a non-starter, but I don't see a reason why they couldn't have at least some give on pretty much every other common complaint.