Creating a Customladder similar to BW ICCup - Page 3

On January 04 2011 06:10 Keitzer wrote:


see, prodiG, that's where i'd love to come in and show you a full transcript of blizzard's words, but i just don't have that...



i know that it seems oh see legit, but at the same time oh so sketchy.

On January 04 2011 06:12 prodiG wrote:

When I say proof I mean reaching out to blizzard and asking them if that sort of thing is okay. I might actually just do it myself 8)

On January 04 2011 06:14 Keitzer wrote:


yaya, i know what you mean, just that i don't think anyone has contacted them about this (since it's fairly recent post i'm not surprised)

if we really wanna hear their say, the sooner the better since so many people are getting (and will get) hyped about this whole project.

On January 04 2011 06:22 Mr. Wiggles wrote:


I can't really see why they would be against it. It's almost the same thing as having in-game leaderboards/stats that save between games, except you need a client to collect the information as it is happening across different maps. This can also easily exist within the framework of Bnet 2.0, so it's not like Blizzard is going to be losing any money. In fact, they may be making money, if word of mouth spreads and this attracts people who wouldn't want to play the Blizz ladder, but are fans of Iccup.

On January 04 2011 05:59 Keitzer wrote:


what does that have to do with a custom ladder?

On January 04 2011 06:26 dementrio wrote:
I think a chat bot would be handy for matchmaking. since the custom games section wont let you decide who you play against, and you can't really have 100 versions of every map to split up skill levels, what we are left with is having everyone spam "D+ msg me" in a chat room

On January 04 2011 06:46 echO [W] wrote:
I have a question about this, I realize Blizzard didn't care about iCCup for BW, what would Blizzard stand to lose should they partner with iCCup and create an iCCup ladder all official like and on the up and up?

Would it be a lost in terms of reputation (lol), rather than a financial loss?

On January 04 2011 06:52 Two_DoWn wrote:

It would essentially be a slap to the face for all of blizzards mapmaking and ladder designers, as well as bnet .02 in general. Basically it would be akin to them saying: "ok, we fucked up, battle.net sucks and we are completely inept, so we'll have the people who actually know what they are doing help us out."

It also gives them less control over the ladder system, and destroys their planned bnet ladder into supertournament strategy.

On January 04 2011 06:40 Keitzer wrote:

you wouldn't need 100 of each map... just 1. 1 that connected with the server and added or subtracted based on the results and who was playing against who.


and no i've never heard of wgt. looking it up now.

On January 04 2011 06:57 echO [W] wrote:


I hope Blizzard considers Starcraft 2's HEALTHY longevity while they consider their own reputation. Say they decide to partner with iCCup, while they suffer a slap to the face now, I'm certain in 5-6 years down the line we'll look back and applaud a decision to partner with iCCup.

Lets hope they actually think long and hard about this and not just brush it off.