EPTAlot of these features would be great to add. Also amazing images from Goblinoid. Blizzard should take note!
UI still sub-par 2 years later. Why don't we care? - Page 72
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MaxFatality
United States21 Posts
Alot of these features would be great to add. Also amazing images from Goblinoid. Blizzard should take note! | ||
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boxman22
Canada430 Posts
On March 06 2012 10:41 starclaws wrote:It converged to RealiD and added achievements/challenges/stat tracking. I dunno what you mean by added stat tracking. It's actually SIGNIFICANTLY worse at stat tracking than old bnet... | ||
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-MoOsE-
United States236 Posts
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kckkryptonite
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
On March 06 2012 10:19 hfxRos wrote: Maybe he works on his social skills in places other than StarCraft 2. When I play StarCraft, I want to sit down and play StarCraft. I don't want to talk to people about why whatever race they play needs a buff and whatever race I play needs a nerf. When I want to interact with people, I go out with my friends. When I want to play a game, I play a game. This is why I don't care that the UI is bad. If the UI was great, like many of your suggestions, my StarCraft experience would be 100% the same, and I imagine the majority of players would say the same. (Also, don't be a dick) Oh the irony. The "social skills" part was a snide remark at the fact that he called this 70 page discussion a whine thread. | ||
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Crushgroove
United States793 Posts
 I miss my friends! | ||
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Crushgroove
United States793 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=317944 | ||
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Demonace34
United States2493 Posts
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
On March 06 2012 17:42 Crushgroove wrote: Also: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=317944 I had already linked to it in the OP, but another mention is good nonetheless. Also, I asked that thread's OP to cross-link to our discussion to further spread awareness and exposure. | ||
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
how the hell did you design that? It's suh a shame that Blizzard didn't do what the community basically serves them on a plate. I have no the slightest clue why Blizzard has made bnet to such a social failure. Normally I put on my thin foil hat and search for some conspiracy theory but in this case I can't come up with one single reason. Because from a business point of view they must want people to be online in their bnet system. Right now, it's just play a couple of games and logout. Just like mentioned previously in this thread. I used to get home, login to WoW, not to play but because I had my guild online, was watching the different chat channels and just having my character just outside of orgrimmar. I was inspecting people, dueling, chatting...just hanging out and that was a BLAST! | ||
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
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Ashur
Czech Republic646 Posts
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Thylacine
Sweden882 Posts
On March 06 2012 21:10 Ashur wrote: Being in all channels at once is good, I cannot complain about it. But an option to read chat messages in game (ON/OFF) is not enough. I would like to stay in some channels, but spamming in these would disturb me in game. On the other hand, in some of them I would like to stay and read messages anyways. ON/OFF switch for each channel would be nice. So you don't want an excellent UI that has been suggested, you ONLY want them to improve the chat? Sad. | ||
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Ashur
Czech Republic646 Posts
On March 06 2012 21:15 Zanazuah wrote: So you don't want an excellent UI that has been suggested, you ONLY want them to improve the chat? Sad. In my previous posts I also said I agree with suggestions in OP. I doubt that they are gonna be implemented, that's sad. | ||
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NtroP
United States174 Posts
If they never implement a better social interface, you can bet your ass this is the reason. | ||
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IronMan3
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reapsen
Germany559 Posts
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Goblinoid
United States55 Posts
It's intended to be interactive (assuming you download/open it with a pdf viewer), but you can scroll through it in your browser if you just want the gist of it (but don't scroll if you intend to interact with it!!). Let me know if anything isn't user friendly or doesn't make sense (or if any links don't hook up right!). There's a weird link problem in the Tournament page that links you to a custom game lobby which I can't seem to fix, just click on the right side of the orange button for now  .Also, at the moment, on the bottom left of the screen I have listed recent players you've played (easy way to make new friends/block jerks) but I think it'd be cool if it rotated between a couple different views. What would you want to see there? Recent game stats, profile stats, last game info, etc.? (from http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=204977) | ||
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Shiladie
Canada1631 Posts
So you've gotta guess or research what random channel will have people who would be interested in playing whatever custom you've found and are interested in, and try to convince them to play. This as opposed to just being able to broadcast to EVERYONE that you want to play that custom game, and if they're interested they can jump in and expect a game to start within a few minutes. This then on top of creating names for custom games, so you don't have people leaving when the game-mode they want isn't chosen at the start (squad tower D chaos vs normal for a quick example) How can blizzard be so absolutely retarded in their UI design and not even touch on it in the 2 years since release... Overall I'd say this (custom game interface) is the number one thing that's ruining SC2 for me right now | ||
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Treehead
999 Posts
I knew and had daily interactions with dozens of people. Dozens more on both factions were recognizable and had a reputation with the group I hung out with. They weren’t exactly like a family (I won’t be that cheesy), but they certainly were a dysfunctional and fun group of people a person could go hang around, a subset of which would be online any time of the day. Regardless of whatever anyone has to say about the game of WoW, I made enough friends and had enough memories of the game for it to be well worth whatever amount of money I dumped into it. But that was all early in the game, before any expansions came out. Then, Blizzard decided that necessitating groups of people to play their game was a mistake. They started by making PvP cross-server (when I say cross-server, keep in mind this means it went from people on your server that, if you play a lot, you knew, to some random dude you’ve never seen before and will never see again), then moved to making dungeon groups cross-server, and finally just recently they made raids cross-server. Although they left in the chat features (read this as: they haven’t gotten around to removing WoW’s chat features yet), they systematically removed any trace of the necessity for groups of people to play their game (btw originally, promoting social interaction was a necessity for an MMO – Blizzard broke this mold right before their game started falling apart). These days, you log on, you can queue for a raid, for a dungeon, for a BG - all solo. And you get things – more things than you ever got before, and easier than before too. But I have no motivation to do it. Know why? I don’t know the people I raid with. They don’t know me. Same with the people I PvP with, the people I do dungeons with, etc. I don’t know anyone I play the game with except those random few from RL or older days who still play. Most of the people I played WoW with quit around the time this last expansion came out. And guilds these days aren’t really forming – no one has a reason to want to join a guild anymore. The stuff that’s hard to do is too hard for most guilds to do anyway, and the stuff that’s easy to do is more comfortable to do on your own time in random groups. It’s about chat for SC2, but it isn’t really JUST about chat. Blizzard thinks “community” means a bunch of people who don’t know each other posting on a forum site. Seriously, google the words "brood war community" and "wow community" - see the difference between the two results? One has only blizzard run stuff, one has only community-run stuff. Guess which is which. They have actively moved away from encouraging interaction to the point where when I played the d3 beta recently, I had a hard time contacting a friend of mine who was playing with me. And in all the time I’ve spent playing the beta (not too long, but a reasonable amount of time), I’ve talked to no one I didn’t already know. They’re going to keep making their games like this until it’s clear to them that it's hurting their bottom line. | ||
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