UI still sub-par 2 years later. Why don't we care? - Page 74

On March 07 2012 08:05 CherubDown wrote:
The Diablo 3 community is equally concerned about this. One really great guy on the Diablofans forums did a mockup of Battlenet 2.0 for Diablo 3: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/35494-new-battlenet-mockup/

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On March 07 2012 08:12 Shockk wrote:


Well, maybe by reflecting on the quality of your posts, and reconsidering why you thought it appropriate to call a 70+ page discussion filled with concept art, videos, interviews and ongoing support across servers, leagues and continents a "whine thread".

On March 07 2012 03:19 Treehead wrote:
Having written all that, I think I'm starting to see why the chat features are going away.

When I think back on wow's history, I remember we used to have a lot of freedom in how we treated others. You could (and still can, though its harder to do it meaningfully) kill someone very low level and "camp" them. You could be as much of a good guy or a jerk to others in your guild as you wanted (though, for obvious social reasons, these "jerky" types of guilds didn't last). You could kill another player or /wave. But people complained - not that they shouldn't be able to do these things, but that other people shouldn't have been able to alter their game experience. This is the reason these features keep getting cut out - lately whenever Blizzard gives two people a means to interact, they will get complaints if they don't like the way the interactions are headed (with WoW, this should've been expected and ignored, but it wasn't).

So now, when they want to add the potential to chat, to see other players, to meet new people - they have to ask themselves "could something bad happen to the player during these interactions?" and the answer is always "yes". But then, they reason, won't they come back and complain if bad things do happen? This line of reasoning (I'm willing to bet) is why they won't give you the stuff you should be able to have - they're afraid that if they give you a length of rope you'll hang yourself with it, and then cause a customer service issue asking why the rope they gave you was so "hang-able". Of course, this line of reasoning is ridiculous (with no chat, there's no people to do you wrong, but there's also just no people, hence the complaint behind this thread)... but I'm guessing that's the reason.

On March 07 2012 03:19 Treehead wrote:
Having written all that, I think I'm starting to see why the chat features are going away.

When I think back on wow's history, I remember we used to have a lot of freedom in how we treated others. You could (and still can, though its harder to do it meaningfully) kill someone very low level and "camp" them. You could be as much of a good guy or a jerk to others in your guild as you wanted (though, for obvious social reasons, these "jerky" types of guilds didn't last). You could kill another player or /wave. But people complained - not that they shouldn't be able to do these things, but that other people shouldn't have been able to alter their game experience. This is the reason these features keep getting cut out - lately whenever Blizzard gives two people a means to interact, they will get complaints if they don't like the way the interactions are headed (with WoW, this should've been expected and ignored, but it wasn't).

So now, when they want to add the potential to chat, to see other players, to meet new people - they have to ask themselves "could something bad happen to the player during these interactions?" and the answer is always "yes". But then, they reason, won't they come back and complain if bad things do happen? This line of reasoning (I'm willing to bet) is why they won't give you the stuff you should be able to have - they're afraid that if they give you a length of rope you'll hang yourself with it, and then cause a customer service issue asking why the rope they gave you was so "hang-able". Of course, this line of reasoning is ridiculous (with no chat, there's no people to do you wrong, but there's also just no people, hence the complaint behind this thread)... but I'm guessing that's the reason.

On March 07 2012 20:39 Shockk wrote:


Then why did you bother posting here in the first place? Except if you can't help being a jerk, that is.