This is an amasing idea, that would be great and bring some nice memories from the warcraft3TFT dayz along with more reason to grind the ladder.
Sadly i doubt blizzard will ever implement that, customizing our menus and stuff would be so neat ^^

Alejandrisha

United States6565 Posts

July 28 2011 16:51 GMT

#183

do not want.

every game is trying to become more LoL friendly though. We'll see if blizz decides to add custom skins for every fricken unit....... I hope no

Gamegene

United States8308 Posts

July 28 2011 16:52 GMT

#184

I think one of the reasons why I like playing RTS's is that it doesn't distract you with gimmicky accessories like (MMO's) maplestory.

Personally I think it'll just encourage more elitism when you have older players playing younger players with the same skill level, but if it encourages more people to play I guess I wouldn't be TOO sour about it.

Cosmetic only. Extra map veto is pretty dumb; if people play enough to care about maps then mission already fucking accomplished, no need to give players an advantage over others.

Tuk

United Kingdom223 Posts

July 28 2011 16:57 GMT

#185

I cant see the harm apart from maybe blizzard spending to much time on it but i dont think they would anyway, if it keeps people playing why not.

0neder

United States3733 Posts

July 28 2011 16:58 GMT

#186

I only want to play against people that play b/c they enjoy the game and not for virtual candy.

I also only want to play against people who are filtered out by skill, and not by their willingness to ration all their time to a game. Leave that to WoW please.

Leave this to the CoD and WoW casuals. Starcraft is a hardcore game, and always should be.

Kaitokid

Germany1327 Posts

July 28 2011 16:58 GMT

#187

Really love this idea

AlienAlias

United States324 Posts

July 28 2011 16:58 GMT

#188

While the idea looks like fun, I would have to point out that some of the rewards, if Blizzard was OK allowing them, I would really really like to be able to do without grinding tons of EXP. Specifically, the custom menus and soundtracks. Other ones, like the extra veto, would make more sense to me fitting in an EXP system.

Twistacles

Canada1327 Posts

July 28 2011 16:58 GMT

#189

Anything to get people to play more, if only team games.

Darkzler

Sweden58 Posts

July 28 2011 16:59 GMT

#190

I actually like the idea, though you shouldn't be able to customize ingame units to avoid any sort of confusion.

BushidoSnipr

United States910 Posts

July 28 2011 17:00 GMT

#191

Wow this idea is f*cking amazing. Sounds 10X better than the blizzard ladder already and its pretty amateurish. Good job, but sadly will never be implemented

-Switch-

Canada506 Posts

July 28 2011 17:02 GMT

#192

Why spend so much time trying to fix sc2? Perhaps just try playing the game since its not broken.

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

July 28 2011 17:04 GMT

#193

Actually, this would probably put me off laddering altogether. I played a fair bit in Season 1 and reached rank 1 diamond. I was on the verge of masters, but life got too busy and I had to take a break. Season 2, I was steady high diamond, but no longer had the time to try to climb the ladder. I saw little point in trying to get from rank 30 to 20, so when I got the time to play I tended to just play random team games for fun. In season 3 I intend to complete placements, but whether I'll bother trying for a high ladder rank I don't know. But if you put another barrier in front of me (e.g., everyone of the same skill level now has more "experience points" because they can afford to slack off and play for hours every day), then I would probably just forget about serious laddering altogether.

Envisage

United States16 Posts

July 28 2011 17:08 GMT

#194

A game is only as strong as the size of its casual playerbase.

If other successful games are any indication, these types of systems really help encourage casual players to stick with the game. The idea shouldn't be too hard to implement. I don't see why Blizzard shouldn't give it a shot.

ROOTFayth

Canada3351 Posts

July 28 2011 17:08 GMT

#195

On July 29 2011 02:02 -Switch- wrote:
Why spend so much time trying to fix sc2? Perhaps just try playing the game since its not broken.

it's more like improving, not fixing

and it's a pretty good idea imo

HeeroFX

United States2704 Posts

July 28 2011 17:09 GMT

#196

Cool idea. I do like the idea of rewards besides Icons.

Sbrubbles

Brazil5776 Posts

July 28 2011 17:20 GMT

#197

Can't they just give us the fun stuff mentioned in the OP without all the leveling up bullshit?

AcrosstheSky

United States237 Posts

July 28 2011 17:27 GMT

#198

NASAmoose

United States231 Posts

July 28 2011 19:16 GMT

#199

I feel like if Blizzard added the option to customize more stuff, they would give it to everyone for free. Hell, we paid 60 bucks, and will be paying again for HotS...

Achieves, portraits and decals are pretty much the rewards, and I think I'm okay with that.

Divergence

Canada363 Posts

July 28 2011 19:55 GMT

#200

I'm starting to think that maybe the OP plans to start his own private server with these features implemented. Or he is planning to do a big write-up and send it to blizzard as advice.