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UI changes like multi-person replay viewing, real chat channels, cross server play without massive lag.
These are all cost cutting manuvers that allow for more revenue for the company through different avenues. If they have replay viewing and chat channels in HOTS or the final chapter they have improved the basic game and get more people to buy copies. The same thing happens with preventing cross-server play. They would actually have to have more servers to provide a decent gameplay experience and they also allowed a loophole where you could buy an EU or Asia copy which gives them 2 extra game sales. All about the money.
The same thing applies when as a company they decide to release the game in 3 parts before they even release the first game. They want $140 (i think it is $40 per exp) for the entire SC2 experience. For SC vanilla and BW you got a full campaign in each title and access to online play.
Now, they have this HOTS beta coming out, but they keep downgrading the game over and over again and new units won't change that. There aren't the abilities to pressure your opponent consistantly thoughout the whole game without a simple mistake losing an entire army. Broodwar had an progression of gameplay that made every moment exciting. Take a TvZ for example:
Zerg pressures with early lings to test the defense of terran.
Zerg then pressures with mutas while terran defends with turrets and marines it is a constant battle until the marine numbers get high enough.
Now, terran gets to pressure zerg's bases with MM balls attempting to enter through means of dropship, vessels killing lurkers and defilers, or brute force runbys.
Now, zerg can turn the pressure back they have ultralisks they tear through small MM balls backed by lings and defilers.
The game just plays instead of sitting on an army, move out, die or win. And even if SC2 basic had the ability to evolve into a better game Blizzard will keep taking away that ability with every expansion and patch.
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QXC's concerns are hilarious since there have actually been very few broadcast matches. I think we actually want much more to watch each week.
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On October 19 2012 06:29 Noocta wrote:
The fact that it's 2 games per match is really frustrating too
What's the fucking point of a serie finishing in a 1-1 ?
it's because of lag. they play one game on each server (i.e. if it's euro vs korea there's one game on europe and one game on korea).
so i guess if the skill difference isn't massive, most matches should end in 1-1
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On October 19 2012 06:33 Schelim wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2012 06:29 Noocta wrote:
The fact that it's 2 games per match is really frustrating too
What's the fucking point of a serie finishing in a 1-1 ? it's because of lag. they play one game on each server (i.e. if it's euro vs korea there's one game on europe and one game on korea). so i guess if the skill difference isn't massive, most matches should end in 1-1
It doesn't help building hype around the matches imo.
It's more about the overall map score at the end then, and it's.. weird.
I dunno, the hype is hard to build with a format like that.
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On October 19 2012 06:18 enemy2010 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2012 06:15 Plansix wrote:On October 19 2012 06:13 enemy2010 wrote:
Why not outsource coding? Hire people from the community to help code and work over BattleNet. Um...computer programing is hard and not exciting. Also the people who do it are very skilled and demand to be paid for that skill. They don't work for free and crowd sourcing your network coding is a terrible idea. Did I say "release the code to the masses"? No. Did I say "make them work for free"? No. Hire people from the community that actually know the game and know and understand the flaws.
I am sure Blizzard has hired enough people to do what they need to do. But when you are making something, you can never have enough people and even when you have enough, they only have so many man hours in a week. It won't happen instantly, but nothing worth doing ever does.
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New hosts are doing great, glad to see the show back! Keep up the good work JP
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Well, the interesting part of the show is over so I'm off.
Loved the show! QXC and Apollo are excellent. Hope to see them again.
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I stoped watching SOTG a long time ago, because it was all fluff and no "state of the game". This episode restored a bit of my faith for JP's show, gj.
Also, when will ppl understand the problem is not on the 10$ for a PPV stream, the problem is that most ppl (video game stream watchers) dont have a way to pay for it, credit card etc..
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even on sotg, slashers mic and webcam suck
everyone says they dont know where arthur and brown are going, but we all know if either of them win NASL EG will buy them.
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On October 19 2012 06:36 Noocta wrote:Show nested quote +On October 19 2012 06:33 Schelim wrote:On October 19 2012 06:29 Noocta wrote:
The fact that it's 2 games per match is really frustrating too
What's the fucking point of a serie finishing in a 1-1 ? it's because of lag. they play one game on each server (i.e. if it's euro vs korea there's one game on europe and one game on korea). so i guess if the skill difference isn't massive, most matches should end in 1-1 It doesn't help building hype around the matches imo. It's more about the overall map score at the end then, and it's.. weird. I dunno, the hype is hard to build with a format like that.
i agree, but how would you make it fair otherwise? whoever gets to play game 3 on his server has a huge advantage.
but yeah the entire format is horrible.
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Hahahaha ''donkey'''. Enjoying it so far.
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On October 19 2012 06:27 gh0stsquall wrote:morrow would be an amazing fit for this panel.
yes, morrow would be a perfect addition.
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The show was great until slasher came on. Don't make him a regular on this show, he belongs to other shows.
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Oh hey we're back to State of the Drama (with special drama expert Slasher) now.
Oh well, the first part of the show was very good, qxc is a boss.
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Just want to say the show is awesome, will tune in every week  . Really like the no drama, and mature and respectful discussions. Please don't switch times every week if possible.
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I'm so quittin this thread before the Slayers drama start here too.... just want to say that the new hosts are doing great. I'm having a great time.
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This SlayerS segment, JP is being unprofessional as fuck.
Show was going so great up till now too.
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blah blah blah... Slayers disbanded, it's kinda sad, why do we have to dissect every fuckin detail again?
move on to something else please... have been enjoying the show a lot up to now though!
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