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Meeting Dustin Browder

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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19231 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-06 05:27:07
March 05 2011 00:40 GMT
#1
I attended a gdc lecture today called making Starcraft 2 an eSport. I arrived early and saw Dustin Browder just chilling at the front of the room. So I walked over and told him I love Starcraft and asked him some questions I will write below.!

Question: Who is your favorite SC:BW player?
Browder: I do not have one.

Question: Who is your favorite SC2 player?
Browder: I am a big fan of Micromanagement. I was able to watch a lot of Beta SC2. At that time I became a big fan of (R)TheLittleOne and also really like (P)MarineKing


Question: What is your favorite race?
Browder: I am a diamond league player but I do not have a favorite race. I am not allowed to have a favorite race. This being the case, at the office and in our tournaments I am only allowed to play random. This makes it hard to be good at any race because the game is so complex.

Question: Will there be a SC2 tournament at next years GDC?
Browder: I actually think that would be an amazing idea and will be suggesting it to the director of GDC later today.



Question: What is the current status of Heart of the Swarm?
Browder: We are about a year away from completing the game. Making the game to fit an eSport makes it difficult to make interesting campaigns while keeping the game balanced.
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Question: Did you know the mother ship would not be used by the pros?
Browder: From an eSport stance, I knew right away and hated the idea of the mothership. But the mothership is badass and thought it would be a great unit for non serious gamers to have available. But recently I have seen the mothership in play more and this makes me very happy.

Question: Why is the ultralisk smaller then it was in beta?
Browder: The artists hated me for making such epic units such as the Ultralisk so small. But in order to make SC2 an eSport, the units in the game needed to be scaled down. Large sizes make it hard for the audience and the gamer to see whats going on. The original size of the ultra used to be able to hide 20 lings under it.
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Question: Why is the most broken strategy of all time, zerg rush, still in the game?
Browder: Because we want the player to be on their toes from the start. It's important to be engaged from the beginning of the game.

Question: How do you feel about leaving Goliaths out of multiplayer?
Browder: Goliaths are an awesome unit. However, we decided that the Thor should be given a chance. I still do not know if I regret this decision.

Question: What about the other units from WoL?
Browder: I really liked the units from the story. However, in order to make a good eSport we had to cut out the units. The diamondBack took away from the uses of the Maurader and Tanks and the Specter was to much of a clone to the ghost.

Question: Any last words?
Browder: I really was against making a game that only had roughly 14 units per race and that some of them would be reused from SC:BW. Coming from a CnC background, I always believed that the more units the better. Blizzard has taught me that an eSport does not need a 100 units to make the game good, but a good balance of less unit types. This allows players to be able to scout correctly and be able to react accordingly.


Browder is an amazing guy and hearing his speech was the best part of GDC! I really hope SC2 is brought to the conference next year. I hope you all enjoyed the read!!!!!


edit: moar questions i forgot to add! I was reminded when a post complained about maps. Here's what he said.

Question: How do you plan on dealing with tournaments for people of different skill level?
Browder: Well, in the various football leagues they make it easier to play at different levels of the game by having a different set of rules. Unfortunately, we can't just give the marine +60 hp for Bronze level players. The way we are going to solve this is by releasing a new set of tournament maps that are specific to each league tournament. In bronze league tournaments, these maps will have more destructible rocks so the player has more time to build without the threat of cheese. But we aren't only focusing on Bronze league maps. We want to release maps specific to each league. We are currently preparing new maps to be presented into the Pro tournaments as well. I am hoping that the new release of these different map styles will help facilitate the level of play for each rank of Starcraft 2 Players.


OP note:
Apparently many of you got upset at the legitimacy of the interview. I wrote those very quickly because I went to a dinner that in fact was with several blizzard employees on top of other professionals. Let me state this clearly. I was with him before the speech. We talked and made note of things he said. I then also recorded the important information from his speech and was one of many people to ask questions from the audience. I assure you my facts are genuine. I will however apologize for making the mistake of putting "me" instead of question since not all questions were mine and in fact some where ones he asked outwardly and then answered himself. I did not expect people to be offended by the format of this post. I meant only to bring information to the table. I proudly told him I was a TL member when we met.


On the issue of maps. I said nothing about new maps being brought to ladder. He stated in such a way, that if there are tournaments for people at different levels of skill, that there will be map specific pools for those tournaments..

Sorry again for anyone offended. My goal has always been to contribute to the TL community please don't knock me for the way I convey information. It was very hurried. I hope this clarifies things and yes that picture is legit.
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dizzy101
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands2066 Posts
March 05 2011 00:42 GMT
#2
Awesome pics & questions... thanks for sharing.
Keitzer
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2509 Posts
March 05 2011 00:44 GMT
#3
i love that response: "Not allowed to have a favorite race"

personally, i think it'd be cool if Browder liked Terran, Kim liked Zerg, and Cooper liked Protoss

then they'd have a sweet "Well this is how my race benefits" sort of discussions
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Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
March 05 2011 00:45 GMT
#4
Very nice, thanks for sharing.

Browder & Blizz get too much flak around here, but I guess thats just because we as players are so passionate about the game.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
March 05 2011 00:46 GMT
#5
Wow. That is so cool you got an interview with him and a picture! :D
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cHaNg-sTa
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1058 Posts
March 05 2011 00:48 GMT
#6
On March 05 2011 09:40 BisuDagger wrote:

Me: Who is your favorite SC2 player?
Browder: I am a big fan of Micromanagement. I was able to watch a lot of Beta SC2. At that time I became a big fan of (R)TheLittleOne and also really like (P)MarineKingPrime.


Confirmed: Marines will never get nerfed

In all seriousness, awesome job man. Good stuff!
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KezseN
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Singapore1450 Posts
March 05 2011 00:49 GMT
#7
sweet, Heart of the Swarm is only one year away from completion... but why do i get the feeling that its gona take longer than that to be released D:
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Babaganoush
Profile Joined November 2010
United States626 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-05 00:50:09
March 05 2011 00:49 GMT
#8
On March 05 2011 09:40 BisuDagger wrote:
Me: Why is the most broken strategy of all time, zerg rush, still in the game?


*BACKHAND*

Just kidding.

All in all, great interview and thanks for the interview with the Goliath himself. I live minutes away from the center and I wish I had the chance to go.
Stick a fork in those buns.
1Eris1
Profile Joined September 2010
United States5797 Posts
March 05 2011 00:52 GMT
#9
Browder actually sounded intelligent and "correct".


Cool. Nice pics
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Axeinst
Profile Joined March 2011
Belize281 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-05 00:53:05
March 05 2011 00:52 GMT
#10
"really like MarineKingPrime."

This gave me giggles.

I want goliaths in SC2 in next expansion.
Mr. Nefarious
Profile Joined December 2010
United States515 Posts
March 05 2011 00:52 GMT
#11
Some really surprising answers here. We all hate on him for his CnC background, especially when the mothership is discussed. Interesting to note he hated the idea of the unit in general, and also interesting for him to note what he has learned from Blizzard, not only about the concept of Esports but also towards the number of units and balance.
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TheGiftedApe
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1243 Posts
March 05 2011 00:56 GMT
#12
too bad you didn't use neural parasite on him and convince him that no more balance patches are needed right now, and what the community really wants is decent maps for which to balance the game around.
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Spekulatius
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2413 Posts
March 05 2011 00:57 GMT
#13
Not even Dustin Browder can avoid the charm of our lil Dario

And maybe regretting the thor... interesting. Instinctually I would have thought about other units to possibly feel bad about, buy hey.

Charming interview overall, thanks!
Always smile~
MuTT
Profile Joined July 2010
United States398 Posts
March 05 2011 01:00 GMT
#14
Wow a diamond player... That is really, really REALLY bad.
MC's strength: confidence weakness: over confidence
Draconicfire
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2562 Posts
March 05 2011 01:00 GMT
#15
Sweet interview, wish I could attend conferences like those
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da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
March 05 2011 01:01 GMT
#16
glad to here that hots is a year away (in blizz time lololol)
When they see MC Probe, all the ladies disrobe.
Bellygareth
Profile Joined October 2010
France512 Posts
March 05 2011 01:02 GMT
#17
to the OP: marinekingprime as the name suggest is now terran. The correct link I believe is (T)MarineKing

That said nice interview, blizzard guys are pretty smart in their communication. It's nice to see them at the same time friendly and wanting to answer difficult questions while being restricted by company policy, makes for interesting answers :D
Kisezik
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia70 Posts
March 05 2011 01:03 GMT
#18
On March 05 2011 10:00 MuTT wrote:
Wow a diamond player... That is really, really REALLY bad.


Yeah, but its really hard to get really high up in the ladder with 'random'. His job is to design the game, not aim for grandmasters league
DyEnasTy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3714 Posts
March 05 2011 01:08 GMT
#19
Prob the only interview of Dustin ive actually liked. Ive had a very biased/skewed view against him. But I did enjoy some of those answers.
Much better to die an awesome Terran than to live as a magic wielding fairy or a mindless sac of biological goop. -Manifesto7
Suc
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1569 Posts
March 05 2011 01:09 GMT
#20
On March 05 2011 10:00 MuTT wrote:
Wow a diamond player... That is really, really REALLY bad.

Mate, you're exaggerating just a bit there. Diamond players are not that bad.

Thanks for the interview OP.
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