This thread definitely needs more recognition, 4 months old and only 8 pages?

D:

Great job on these designs sir, I like the look of the chat channels ^^.
However, if 'Input limit reached' couldn't be fixed after months, I'm not holding my breath for too many changes till HotS, if even then.

alepov

Netherlands1132 Posts

July 09 2011 15:41 GMT

#145

this actually would deserve the title bnet TWO point o

Snuggles

United States1865 Posts

July 09 2011 15:45 GMT

#146

Is this real life or a fantasy? =O

Sylverin

United States480 Posts

July 09 2011 15:52 GMT

#147

all of these changes are amazing and i truly wish you could beat blizzard over the head with them until they get amnesia and do your plan because its in front of them. that said none of these will be implemented until at least LotV because they dont give a shit about bn2.0 functions while making other games. why spend resources and people and time to fix things that in their eyes is working great and as intended. the unfortunate part is that all of these changes are fucking awesome and deserve to be implemented

<3 ty for showing what bnet is capable of

AzurewinD

United States569 Posts

July 09 2011 15:54 GMT

#148

Only one addition.

"Close all chat windows" button

That is, assuming chat functionally remains the same in that a new window gets opened for every individual user who sends a message (which I hope it doesn't).

Otherwise, absolute pure genius. I don't understand why Blizzard can't take a step back and spend an hour doing some dedicated GUI design reasoning. That's all it takes to realize the current design is garbage.

Nihilnovi

Sweden696 Posts

July 09 2011 15:55 GMT

#149

This is just awesome, great work! =)

Kolvacs

Canada1203 Posts

July 09 2011 15:57 GMT

#150

Common Blizz, lets get on this

OhMyGawd

United States264 Posts

July 09 2011 15:59 GMT

#151

If Blizzard added one of these features before HOTS i'd be dumbfounded.

Most likely they would add some of these in HOTS and add that to their "reasons to buy this".

Silfurstar

Switzerland263 Posts

July 09 2011 15:59 GMT

#152

I have no knowledge of what would actually be possible to implement or not, but just looking at the designs make me scream inside that they probably aren't even trying to make something like that work.
The Tournament / Event tab, in particular, is an amazing idea.

Great work man, I can only hope that this gets recognized and given more attention. Blizzard needs to hire you ! :D

[N3O]r3d33m3r

Germany673 Posts

July 09 2011 16:13 GMT

#153

great topic! i''ve been looking for people who try to make suggestsions for the battle.net UI for a long time now, i think it's little details like this which make a game so much more enjoying.
also, i think that in the match history, you should be able to directly see against whom you played, how long it took and which races were involved.

races and names should be visible and the additional details when you hover with the mouse over a game and if you want the ingame data, you click on it =)

also, in the game lobbies, give visual effects when choosing a race. right now it's just boring text (Terran, Zerg, Protoss & Random)

Jsanko

Slovakia120 Posts

July 09 2011 17:35 GMT

#154

Wish blizzard would reveal changes like this on next blizzcon.
I agree with all improvements you are proposing.
One can only hope for better tommorow.

Crappy

France224 Posts

July 09 2011 19:46 GMT

#155

please blizzard, PLEASE !

lcl

United Kingdom119 Posts

July 09 2011 20:18 GMT

#156

I think its a little harsh to criticize blizzard for not doing this. The op is really just pictures with none of the computing that goes into making any of it real. Its criticizing nasa for not making the Enterprise. Rather than making the UI ridiculously complicated, shouldnt we focus on having the features that are there work really well - like reducing lag and having the UI pages load faster (they load so slow, and i feel the "improved" UI would be infinitely worse).

Crappy

France224 Posts

July 09 2011 20:32 GMT

#157

On July 10 2011 05:18 lcl wrote:
I think its a little harsh to criticize blizzard for not doing this. The op is really just pictures with none of the computing that goes into making any of it real. Its criticizing nasa for not making the Enterprise. Rather than making the UI ridiculously complicated, shouldnt we focus on having the features that are there work really well - like reducing lag and having the UI pages load faster (they load so slow, and i feel the "improved" UI would be infinitely worse).

Yes blizzard is doing a great work.

NO, this is clearly not enought : do you know any other game with such lag problem ? with no lan mode ? Why Bnet 2.0 is worst than Bnet 1.0 ?

Blizzard is a great company, but they need to deserve this, Bnet 2.0 is NOT a great application.

AzurewinD

United States569 Posts

July 09 2011 20:33 GMT

#158

Most of the major changes proposed are purely aesthetic (chat window being nice and big) and don't necessarily involve any new overhead behind the scenes, just rearranging. I'm not sure what you mean by more complicated. The interface is already needlessly complicated and most of the lag that already exists stems from that problem.

Separate chat window instances for every message at the bottom of the screen clutter the UI, making any popular streamer's client lag when they attempt to scroll through to find the one message they're looking for. It's really bad.