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I was browsing PlayXp.com and found a thread about a reunion held in blizzards HQ to talk about balance.
What i got from google translator is that Blizzard invited several pro gamers to help them discuss the balance of maps and match ups and the 3 races. They aim for some long term balancing process but some of the conclusions of this reunion will be implemented in the next set of patchs.
The reunion had 4 parts:
1- Usage of the different units
2- Strategies
3- Maps
4- Open talk about all the other aspects.
The sad part is that the people and the players attending this reunion aren't allowed to say what the players talked about and all the content of the reunion is confidential but blizzard said that they will release an official transcript of the reunion but only the positive points and the stuff that the players liked will be displayed ...
Here is the list of the participating players:
Zerg
Kim Won-ki (oGs. Cool)
Bakoesik (Gerrard.Prime)
Yihyeongju (Check.Prime)
Terran
Gimseongje (oGs.NCYellow)
Yigwanwoo (Ozil)
Yijungheon (DayFly.Prime)
Protoss
Seogisu (oGs.sSKS)
Jeongminsu (NEXGenius)
Hwanggyuhun (oGs.Spunky)
The interesting thing about this article is that it have a lot of pictures so we can see blizzard Reunion room, with the players talking and stuff, the projector with some maps and several stuff.
You can check it here: http://www.playxp.com/sc2/news/view.php?article_id=1980356
I'm kind of disappointed that this kind of stuff is only held in Korea (for now) while there is a competitive scene in america and Europe and that our pro gamers could assist, specially that the play style of the Na/Eu community is somehow different from the play style of the korean players.
The game being addressed to 3 distinct community, it is only normal to ask what's the balance problems each community face. In some way it's really great of blizzard to involve players in the process of balancing the game and working on getting it more interesting for competitive play, but i hope this kind of stuff won't be restricted only to Korea and that Eu/Na point of view will be asked for.
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Hmm. They should ask BW pros for what makes a balanced / good game. But all listed were BW players and now are Sc2 players. Where's Maka 
They picked good players though, most of the oGs crew.
edit: guess they decided that they needed a new yellow? TT
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I'm aware that a large number of European and American players were directly contacted to discuss their thoughts on balance by members of Blizzard.
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darn, wished there were BW progamers, but guess they wouldn't have that kind of time =o
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WOAH! This is important. Very important.
Good on you blizz.
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well at least theres tester, all i want is my sc1 templar archive back
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On July 05 2010 10:19 Heosat wrote:
I'm aware that a large number of European and American players were directly contacted to discuss their thoughts on balance by members of Blizzard.
Source?
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BW progamers wouldn't have much of an idea how to help balance SC2 - if you brought them in from the very start they could have looked at a new unit and been like "well this will be good against X, bad against Y, balance issues A B and C" but Blizzard can't make huge changes, so its a much better idea to be asking the best players of the game thats actually in question what they can fix and what needs work.
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Why am I not surprised that even the pro gamers hate desert oasis? ha ha
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On July 05 2010 10:24 gun.slinger wrote:Show nested quote +On July 05 2010 10:19 Heosat wrote:
I'm aware that a large number of European and American players were directly contacted to discuss their thoughts on balance by members of Blizzard. Source?
The conversations I had with the players would be my source?
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This is easy to do in korea, korea is a reasonably small country with lost of very good players so it is reasonably easy to get them all in one place. Compared to the United States which is very large, where are they going to meet, NY, LA? Europe is also pretty big.
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good for blizzard, gathering a good source of info for balance issues.
but....is it a bad thing for me that I don't recognize any of these progamers? anyone want to enlighten me on who they are?
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The sad part is that the people and the players attending this reunion aren't allowed to say what the players talked about and all the content of the reunion is confidential but blizzard said that they will release an official transcript of the reunion but only the positive points and the stuff that the players liked will be displayed ...
They seriously said this? O_o Seems like a strange thing to say outright.
Also, Heosat has it correct (nope, nobody asked me /jealous).
On July 05 2010 10:16 NuKedUFirst wrote:Hmm. They should ask BW pros for what makes a balanced / good game. But all listed were BW players and now are Sc2 players. Where's Maka They picked good players though, most of the oGs crew. edit: guess they decided that they needed a new yellow? TT
People who haven't played SC2 can't help with balancing SC2. Lots of those guys were fairly high tier pros in SC / WC3, and they are all good at Sc2.
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A little off-topic but could someone translate what the anime overlord that's puking creep on that website is saying?
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They seriously said this? O_o Seems like a strange thing to say outright.
That's what i got from the translation, which can be inaccurate but the sentences talking about that subject were pretty accurately translated.
So in a balance talk when they say no one is allowed to talk about what have been said but we will reveal later all the positive stuff the players said, i only conclude that they won't release anything negative that have been said about their game.
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As Jinro alluded to all players were asked to agree to an NDA so you wont hear balance issues discussed anywhere.
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It's great to see how seriously Blizzard are taking the balance.
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On July 05 2010 10:24 gun.slinger wrote:Show nested quote +On July 05 2010 10:19 Heosat wrote:
I'm aware that a large number of European and American players were directly contacted to discuss their thoughts on balance by members of Blizzard. Source?
You don't need source from the great heosat! :D
Seriously. This is awesome news!
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I have heard of all these people except:
Yigwanwoo (Ozil)
Yijungheon (DayFly.Prime)
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On July 05 2010 10:51 jamesr12 wrote:
I have heard of all these people except:
Yigwanwoo (Ozil)
Yijungheon (DayFly.Prime)
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/images/Ticon_small.png) DayFly played in the euro vs. Asia tournament, He is pretty good, not sure who Ozil is, poor guy doesn't even have a wiki.
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