The Hero Unit obsession by blizzard?

muta vs muta wasnt because of devourer. carriers and BCs were perfectly fine vs zerg, if zerg goes for dark swarm, you just move back. Don't go mass BC and expect that to work. They are giant ships that do damage and soak lots of damage, but they work better mixed with actual support units. dark archons maelstrom bio and keep it in place for storm, like how fungal + bane KINDA beats terran bio in this game. Reaver wasn't broken. 125 damage after upgrade and it still had weaknesses. Colossus is broken, not reaver was. Colossus Fires very fast and at 15 damage opposed to 125, kills so much more zerg units compared to reaver that its stupid.

You didn't play much brood war? cause I played 10 years of it.



Not only are they not removing terran units, they're adding more. Consider this; they cross bred the firebat and vulture for a unit that moves fast, costs no gas (unlike the firebat), and does lots of splash AoE vs light. This increases versatility, yes? droppable harass, fast harass and run, good AoE vs light in full attacks. Medivacs take the medic and dropship and wed it to create a drop harass that is unprecedented in power compared to brood war. Not only that but if you manage to kill the marines, most of the time the medivac (healer PLUS dropship) gets away to save terran cost, unlike dropping medics and marines, ro using medics durting an attack. Then terran got mule calldown as well.

And then dustin comes out and says "Yes, terran has too much versatility" when the huge problem of marines continued to be brought up, not just by casual players and Bnet forum warriors, but by pros as well, people who make money from playing. And his response was "Too much versatility as of now".

DB, you explicitly designed terran to be more versatile than it was in brood war. Do you think before you create a product? Or do you do things because "they're cool" and hope for the best?





They're not introducing any changes that are explicitly for HotS. Not just new units, but change to existing units. They're holding you from these changes until paying money for them. This is activision policy and marketing technique down to the letter. Blizzard was good, I still have original warcraft and warcraft 2 CDs that I can load up in DOSbox and have a blast. I don't even have the battle.net version of WC2, thats how old my WC2 is. I got SC, and it was great, a lot of thought was put into it to make it a unique and well rounded strategy game. A lot of people are saying that the expansion to starcraft was designed to fix flaws in the original game, and I take issue with that, mostly because the medic was overkill for terran bio, and zerg had no AoE vs bio other than plague. they introduced the medic, to buff terran, and they introduced the lurker to counter the fact that terran got buffed. This is clearly an Addition design and not a Fix design. Not even that, At the time of releasing it, Blizzard, as it originally was, did not even hint at an expansion for SC.

All of the sudden, Activision "acquires" blizzard, fires a lot of the original workers, puts DB in charge, is a company solely responsible for splitting the Modern warfare series into 3 separate games, even though the hacks worked on day 1 of MW3's release, proving they had doing nothing to the game up new maps and guns, and charged full price for it, and then releases SC2 while also stating they're releasing two additional "expansions" for the game for new units and gameplay.

They announce beforehand that it's a multi-part game that will cost you multi-part dollars. What is this really? Blizzard doesn't exist in the old sense anymore, it is a name brand now and a subsidiary of a large corporation. The interest of large money making corporations are; keep them paying, keep them coming back for more, draw out the seller/consumer relationship as long as possible, by any means necessary. Anyone who's researched or personally experience credit card debt should understand this business model.

On the subject of control, Imagine going into a store and everything is bolted down, because you, the customer who buys from them, are not trusted, but thieves regularly break in and steal these bolted down goods with ease and are never caught. Blizzard requires that tournaments taking place get license from Blizzard. Even places that have gotten licensed have had their internet shut down by blizzard via IP or site ban, due to Blizzard forcing customers to log on and play. This also ensures that you must pay 60 dollars, and if you want to play with other people at all, whether over the internet or (over the internet again) in a house lan or a small tournament, you have to have an account that bnet approves of, completely opposite of the Spawn Installs the original blizzard explicitly put on Sc1 to allow people to play with friends, etc. meanwhile, the thieves who crack and create illegal SC2 copies get away with it completely free. restrictions only degrade the experience of legitimate customers. Why do customers opt to allow their experience to be degraded to such a degree because of a very small percentage of copyright infringers?

I feel people shouldn't buy HoTS until all the long standing issues are addressed. That would give activision a choice, a complete loss, or going the extra mile to give customers what they want. they would get to look good and salvage their game.