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On February 05 2011 20:33 HitStarcraft wrote:Whats so stupid about how you are rewarded for portraits are the meaningless wins you can get. For instance thers a bronze that has like 1000 wins by playing silver and bronze players, why should that be compared to someone that gets 1000 wins from master players. I believe it should've been separated as so in a logical manner. Bronze to Platinum obviously getting boring portraits  while Masters get their secluded portraits.
It's because no matter what division you play in the opponent will be at a skill level that is challenging for you. So it doesnt really matter if it's in bronze or masters, youre gonna have to try equally hard.
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Incredibly wishful thinking, but it would be fun if we could customise the avatars, Tekken style.
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On February 05 2011 20:19 Protein wrote:
Did you play Warcraft 3 at all?
Yes, and while the portraits were rare, they were not prestigious at all.
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Portraits/Achievements don't have any "glamour."
I don't understand why people have such a fascination with them. I personally think peoples league and win-ratio are more prestigious.
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tbh I actually think less of people I see with those portraits. Around 2000 games and getting matched up against measly me in lower diamond? lol.
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Well.. I don't know about the 'prestige' or 'glamour' thing.
I would say, add about 50+ more portraits to the game of all sorts of units from campaign and of some units that are not used at all.
Make no requirement for any of them. Just make it so every 100 wins of 1v1/2v2/3v3/4v4 you get, you get an unlock and you get to unlock anything you'd like.
By adding alot of portraits, you'll have more people with various portraits based on what units they like or not, not a select few portraits that everyone is eventually going to get.
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In icons there is no difference between Bronze 1500 wins and Master 1500 wins(taking it to the extreme here). There is a difference in the game.
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wc3 portraits were pretty great, but seeing how it's possible to leave 4v4RT games to get 1k free wins on SC2 pretty much took away any sort of prestige or glamor that portraits are suppose to convey.
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The biggest problem with the portraits is that most of them suck. :< And afaik there are no gimmick portraits, like one of a programmer or something.
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On February 05 2011 20:52 zooalt wrote:
The biggest problem with the portraits is that most of them suck. :< And afaik there are no gimmick portraits, like one of a programmer or something.
The Mercenary Goliath portrait, which you get for 500 Terran Team League Quick Match wins looks uncannily like Dustin Browder, the head designer....
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My guess is that they didn't wanna add 1500 or 2000 yet and they will prolly add this in the expansion packs. Can't see why they wouldn't, many people like to have these small rewards to aim for, even if it's not a big deal, u want big land marks like that to overcome. There should at least be achievements for 5000 wins and 10 000 wins imo. that's minimal coding for bliz and it might give a few people that little goal to aim for while laddering.
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I'm medium diamond and I sport the default portrait. Maybe I can trick someone with prejudice..
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![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/hpJ04.jpg)
The only portrait you need.
But honestly, I really don't care about any of the portraits "glamor". It's just a picture. What should be shown off is skill, not the thing you see during the loading screen.
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On February 05 2011 20:55 Aim Here wrote:Show nested quote +On February 05 2011 20:52 zooalt wrote:
The biggest problem with the portraits is that most of them suck. :< And afaik there are no gimmick portraits, like one of a programmer or something. The Mercenary Goliath portrait, which you get for 500 Terran Team League Quick Match wins looks uncannily like Dustin Browder, the head designer.... A lot of portraits are actually modelled after Blizzard staff. I believe the Thor is made in Chris Metzen's likeness, who also uses the alias 'Thundergod' from time to time.
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How did the War3 portraits have a special "feel" to them? It's the same system. Win games, get picture. Only now you have more pictures to choose from, and you get different ones depending on whether you're playing 1on1 or team games.
Pictures weren't unique or awesome in War3, you could spot the AT abuser with insane W/L ratio and high level pictures immediately. Every now and then a pro came along with a nice pic or a regular mass gamer had one, but many people just chose cheap or default pictures despite having thousands of wins or dominating the ladder (just as we're seeing it now in SC2, check out all the pros with cheap pics from the campaign).
The only difference is that in War3 you could brag with your profile pic from the very first day since it had chat on release, while this has only recently come up in SC2. And keep in mind that the new battle.net is designed with the casual gamer in mind. Adding a profile pic is more like redesigning your desktop to fit your taste then choosing it to impress your friends (which might still work, though).
The single issue I have with many of the SC2 profile pictures are how ugly most of them are, especially those from team games. I'm playing terran and I don't see myself selecting one of the pics from terran team games any time soon.
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On February 05 2011 20:57 Babaganoush wrote:The only portrait you need.
This man speaks the truth.
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I love my overlord portrait, it is so cool and works incredibly intimidating for my opponent. He's like: "OMG, please don't build those vs me. They scare me shitless" And they should. Because overlords rock!
Also how cool would it be if, as some people have mentioned above me, you'd get different portraits in the different leagues.
Then the 1000 win silver portrait will probably be the rarest of them all! So cool!
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On February 05 2011 20:32 Silmakuoppaanikinko wrote:I got the void ray portrait, the queen portrait, the kerrigan portrait, I never used them? Why? Because the stalker just looks so much cooler, as does the baneling or Valerian or Tosh. Besides, if I have a stalker portrait my opponent will probably underestimate me. :') Having more wins is hardly impressive, having a better win/loss ratio, surel, that's kind of impressive. Show nested quote +On February 05 2011 20:24 Horse...falcon wrote:Blizzard has included so many portraits that it seems they don't have very much room to add or change the portraits in the expansion.
I don't see what other units Blizzard could put in to switch everything up. I bet the art design team at Blizzard would disagree... There will obviously be new units and campaign characters, and therefore new portraits.
That's why I still use my epic Probe portrait:p
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If your selfesteem is down the toilet, and you need ways to spike it up. Load up WoW, go raid, get the best raiding gear, then head over the official WoW forums and brag about how pro you are and how the "bads" need to "L2P" and stop being "bad".
This kind of attitude we DONT want in SC2, the portrait system is there to be a minor unlockable for everyone, even if you are a Bronze player and you win 1k games you are rewarded for that becuase you still had to fight for those 1000 games just like that Diamond guy. The whole point of the system is to give everyone some good games to play (hence GG') and portraits are rewarded as such
Lets not bring elitism in this game and turn it into a casual vs hardcore player debate.
Blizzard will most likely add new portraits in the next xpac for everyone to aim for (if they even care about them).
A bronze player having the Kerrigan portrait dosent make him a better player than anyone above bronze league, so dont worry about it whether you are in Silver, Gold, Plat, Diamond or Master. He fought hard for it facing people of his skill level and deserves it
The new portraits in HotS will most likely be of new units (single player and multiplayer) and new heroes that will undoubtly be introduced aswell as old ones (Duran?)
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On February 05 2011 20:43 Morphs wrote:
Some of the Zerg portraits have a weird design (like the hydralisk, corruptor), in many cases it's not even clear what unit we're looking at. And like said, they don't mean much. It all depends on the player to answer the question "what is an impressive achievement?". As such, only the league has impressiveness-value in that regard.
It's nice to unlock stuff though, it just feels good. About the decalls, those are a complete failure. Only Terran uses them and you have to look for the decalls very hard. On Zerg and Protoss they are only visible around the Hatchery and on Photon Cannons.
If you cant tell youre looking at a hydralisk i dunno what game youre playing
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