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Dragar
United Kingdom971 Posts
On October 25 2011 21:11 The99 wrote: I mean you guys act like terran has been the dominant race from the beginning till now. While the rest of your post was awesome, I want you to seriously think about why people act like this. Could it be, perhaps, that Terran has indeed been widely perceived as the dominant race since release? | ||
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rift
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Zaphid
Czech Republic1860 Posts
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freetgy
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blackone
Germany1314 Posts
On October 26 2011 03:00 Dragar wrote: While the rest of your post was awesome, I want you to seriously think about why people act like this. Could it be, perhaps, that Terran has indeed been widely perceived as the dominant race since release? While it may be that Terran has been dominant almost always, it was definitely not "widely perceived" as the dominant race since release. Around TSL the whole community was filled with rage about how UNBELIEVABLY overpowered Protoss was. | ||
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Emporio
United States3069 Posts
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muzzy
United States640 Posts
I can't believe people honestly think this guy is intentionally making "his" race better. Ya, it's his job that's pulling him in a fat salary and he is secretly going "Oh I need to make my race easier so I and my Terran brothers can win more". Get real. Maybe Browder finds it easier to design for Terran, might just be his style, but it's definitely not a conscious decision to make one race better than the others. That's why I refuse to call it bias. I genuinely think he wants the game to be as interesting, fun and balanced as possible for all races. That's really hard to do, and it's arguable whether Browder and the rest of Blizz are doing it right, but it's certainly not some kind of Terran conspiracy. And for you guys complaining about how Browder puts emphasis on making units accessible to new players/low skill players- Remember, this is a business. StarCraft is not a game for Blizzard, it is a livelihood. They take home their paychecks and support their families based upon the sales of this game. They can take all of these hardcore suggestions and make BroodWar 2.0, but if it's only going to sell to existing fans or hardcore RTS players, they won't turn as good of a profit. Like it or not, that's the way it works. Same goes for no LAN. Sure it sucks, and yes they need to implement some system for large tourneys, but I completely understand and support no LAN in SC2. Let's face it, people pirate games if they can be pirated. If SC2 had LAN, there would be massive communities setup all over running Hamachi servers and custom ladders (hmm, sounds like another famous RTS you all may have played...) and Blizzard wouldn't be collecting a dime from any of it. More and more games don't include LAN now, not just Blizz. Don't blame the developers, blame the pirates. It's too costly for the devs to spend all their time fighting piracy when they can just say "Screw it, you get a crippled game if you pirate it". | ||
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Tumor
Austria192 Posts
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Kal_rA
United States2925 Posts
On October 25 2011 21:01 Mirosuu wrote: What? Why would you spend all that money, to re-write the whole game for LAN support when even when it's finished, you may be losing money from the game. It doesn't make any logical sense to even consider it, so I'm happy to just get over it. You should too. If you naive enough to believe that blizzard would lose millions in adding LAN support you must be joking. Sure they have to re-write a lot of their code, but if they wrote it correctly (which I am willing to bet they did) it should be a fairly straight forward process. They can add it. But they just don't want their game pirated or any private servers set up like iccup. They want everything to go through battlenet. It's been discussed over a million times, but for SC2 to succeed 100% as an esports you need LAN. Reasons are obvious so I'm not gonna go out and list them.. Browder said hes always 'looking for opportunities'. It's been over a year from release. With all the brilliant minds at blizzard and in the community forms I'm sure at least a dozen good solutions have cropped up to fix this problem. Yet they won't act on it. Whatever... And I did say I'm over it... I put that text in bold just for you. | ||
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freetgy
1720 Posts
On October 26 2011 03:37 muzzy wrote: At first I thought people were kind of joking about Browder being "Terran biased", but I see a lot of you are actually serious. I can't believe people honestly think this guy is intentionally making "his" race better. Ya, it's his job that's pulling him in a fat salary and he is secretly going "Oh I need to make my race easier so I and my Terran brothers can win more". Get real. Maybe Browder finds it easier to design for Terran, might just be his style, but it's definitely not a conscious decision to make one race better than the others. That's why I refuse to call it bias you may be right, it is quite obvious that terran even when they are so well rounded up get even more holes fixed, while protoss looks almost the same, with the same problems all together untouched. who every is responsible for balancing protoss definitly sux, instead of putting a stabilising element into the race get more gimmicky things (replicant, oracle) while the problems of earlygame scouting & detection is still as big of a problem as always. playing protoss needs to become less coinflippy, by giving solid options instead of luckbased. | ||
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nvs.
Canada3609 Posts
On October 26 2011 03:22 blackone wrote: While it may be that Terran has been dominant almost always, it was definitely not "widely perceived" as the dominant race since release. Around TSL the whole community was filled with rage about how UNBELIEVABLY overpowered Protoss was. This was released right at release. They had it right from the beginning! | ||
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Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
On October 25 2011 21:37 Dommk wrote: That is standard Blizzard speak. Same with Valve No. That is just pure standard PR speak. | ||
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AySz88
United States83 Posts
Isn't it just standard, period? If they'd thought of a solution they could commit to, it wouldn't be a problem for very much longer, right? :p Seeing the problem is part of the battle out of the way, at least. | ||
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Mista_Masta
Netherlands557 Posts
I also like how he's openly wearing a Terran shirt going into this interview :-D | ||
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Greenhit
United States200 Posts
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Greenhit
United States200 Posts
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Deadeight
United Kingdom1629 Posts
He struck me as super capable, great answers. | ||
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Bourne
United Kingdom152 Posts
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Blacklizard
United States1194 Posts
I'm still blown away that they think Khaydarin Amulet was "so bad" at the time they yanked it. It was an anti-ball option for harass. Seems like killing it was catering to the casual player too much, IMO. | ||
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
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