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Blizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 38

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Adreme
Profile Joined June 2011
United States5574 Posts
May 07 2012 22:04 GMT
#741
On May 08 2012 07:02 Sub40APM wrote:
Gotta love the Activision model. "Patch? Why patch when we call it 'expansion'! and charge the same price!"


Thats a lot of stuff to just add to a game and expect it to work. Its much easier to just add them into an expansion and use the people beta testing to insure that everything is working well and not breaking stuff.
Samba
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany452 Posts
May 07 2012 22:05 GMT
#742
On May 08 2012 01:06 tnud wrote:
I thought this was a troll cause it's too good to be true...
OMG.

Show nested quote +
at or around the release of Heart of the Swarm

The new Soon™? :/


Oh god, made me laugh so hard.
But all of this is really awesome, pretty much everything i´ve been waiting for.
Seem´s like they´re listening after all.
RIP Geoff “iNcontroL" Robinson, September 11, 1985 - July 20, 2019
stevarius
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1394 Posts
May 07 2012 22:05 GMT
#743
Hell, it's about time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Swwww
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Switzerland812 Posts
May 07 2012 22:06 GMT
#744
Good things seem to be in the pipe, cool.
"What is this TeamSupportGroup?" - mahnini.
Young Terran
Profile Joined April 2012
United Kingdom265 Posts
May 07 2012 22:06 GMT
#745
the question is when the hell is hots coming out?
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
May 07 2012 22:07 GMT
#746
On May 08 2012 07:02 SarcasmMonster wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 06:57 Plansix wrote:
On May 08 2012 06:51 SarcasmMonster wrote:
I wonder how long it would take the Blizz to develop all these features they're promising from scratch. Can any professional software developers/game developers comment?

Basically I'm curious how long it would have delayed WOL if these were implemented before release.


Development is very hard. A game is "content" locked almost six month or more before release. This means all the features that they have in the game are locked in. The rest of the time is spent polishing the game and making it super crisp. SC2 may be an exception when it came to the multiplayer units and balance, but the B.net features were likely locked in 6-10 months before release. Adding new ones would have required more polishing and bug testing, which increases the QA time(quality assurance). The more features they add, the more time they have to spend testing them all. I don't know how much time these features would have added, but it would have been a noticable amount, since they were focused on getting the ladder working and a world wide launch.


You're a paralegal, not a software dev >

Thanks for the insight. So if we wanted some medium-big feature upon seeing the HOTS beta, I guess it likely won't make it in due to logistics.


I am a paralegal, but I read up on game development and follow how most games are made. It is a process most people don't know about. Like, did you know one of the hardest features of any patch is making it install correctly?

I don't know how Blizzard sets up their stuff, but I am sure Bnet is seperate from the SC2 dev team and they make features to fit all Blizzard games. I will assume that some of the Bnet features will come out at release or right after. After all, when they release HotS, they want to make sure it that Bnet does crash because they added in a ton of new features and 1000 times more people are signing on.
I have the Honor to be your Obedient Servant, P.6
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Jampackedeon
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2053 Posts
May 07 2012 22:09 GMT
#747
Wow, I see that they have addressed over 90% of my concerns. Allowing for a re-game off of a replay actually is a good half way solution to not providing land. Allowing tournaments to replay games that end abruptly. Oh wow, this is going to be amazing!!

Also, I feel like clan support will be great for mid-range players like me that want to join a team and practice a bunch to get better but don't have any practice partners right now (mostly for time reasons on my part).

Awesome!!! Thanks so much for listening blizzard!
CrtBalorda
Profile Joined December 2011
Slovenia704 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 22:12:23
May 07 2012 22:11 GMT
#748
Really like these updates, duh. They could have still mentioned the bad custom game system you know and I dont know why noone uses the chat channels, but I guess they are bad? even though I dont see anything wrong with them.

Now make the game harder dam it!
4th August 2012...Never forget.....
Avalain
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada308 Posts
May 07 2012 22:11 GMT
#749
On May 08 2012 06:24 GenesisX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 06:10 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
These new features make me happy Better late than never ♥


I'm pretty happy for these too, but it just seems like they are releasing it in HotS to get more people to buy it.


What? No way. A company building things that people want as an attempt to increase sales? That NEVER happens, does it?

Seriously, though, giving the community everything that it's been asking for is a GOOD thing. Having to pay for it is fine, because realistically it's an expansion everyone would have gotten anyway (assuming you care about the game at all, of course) and people getting paid to work on cool stuff is much better than if these things were just ignored outright.

The only thing that bothers me a little bit is that I have a feeling some things such as clan support have already been finished for quite a while - even as much as a year ago. But better late than never!
You know what unit really has balance problems? Colossi. Why, they look like they could be blown over in a stiff wind!
acerockolla
Profile Joined June 2011
United States219 Posts
May 07 2012 22:12 GMT
#750
This restores quite a bit of my lost faith in Blizzard. I was not going to buy HoTS as I refused to give more money to a company that blatantly ignores us, but now I think I'll buy .. even though I mainly play custom games these days.
Romitelli
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Brunei Darussalam566 Posts
May 07 2012 22:12 GMT
#751
Awesome news, hope Blizz doesn't take too long to release these changes.

:D
Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead.
tsango
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia214 Posts
May 07 2012 22:13 GMT
#752
sounds like they've listened to the community for a change, now if we could just get shared replays...
If you dont like something, then that should be reason enough to try and change it
stormchaser
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada1009 Posts
May 07 2012 22:13 GMT
#753
You guys realise that unranked matchmaking is already in the game right? Just goto custom games and choose a 1v1 map....
TyrantPotato
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1541 Posts
May 07 2012 22:13 GMT
#754
ah. the sweet sound of my silk panties sliding down my legs.

do not disappoint blizzard.
Forever ZeNEX.
acerockolla
Profile Joined June 2011
United States219 Posts
May 07 2012 22:14 GMT
#755
On May 08 2012 07:13 tsango wrote:
sounds like they've listened to the community for a change, now if we could just get shared replays...


That's listed in the features, is it not? or am I missing the joke?? :D
Kanil
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1713 Posts
May 07 2012 22:15 GMT
#756
While I appreciate that Battle.net 2.0 might soon cease being a pile of awful shit, I'm still disappointed that it's taken two years. Too many of these things should have been in the game to begin with, and at best are being promised "at or around launch". I'll believe it when I see it, I'll be happy when it happens, and I'll feel really fucking stupid if I send these jackasses another 40 bucks just to get "soon" again.
I used to have an Oz icon over here ---->
peekn
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States1152 Posts
May 07 2012 22:15 GMT
#757
Well I'll just sit right here and see what they actually add into the game when it comes out. Still things that we should have had since release, but better late than never I guess. Wonder how much of those things we are going to have to pay for
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
May 07 2012 22:17 GMT
#758
Praise the lord. Blizzard isn't deaf.
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
May 07 2012 22:18 GMT
#759
I'm in disbelief. They are actually coming through. THANK YOU.
humblegar
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Norway883 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 22:19:34
May 07 2012 22:18 GMT
#760
On May 08 2012 05:45 Anta wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 03:52 Fragile51 wrote:
On May 08 2012 03:48 Anta wrote:
somehow i think this is related to the last OGN-GOM-KESPA-Blizzard relationship announcement/statement.

maybe they just said "you want your SC2 in Korea? fix your Bnet2.0 first!" ^^


I think this is actually pretty accurate.

some more love for this?


More likely that some of the developers have been busy creating content for D3. You know, the proactive battle.net team creating synergies across games, and on good days allowing play across regions too :p

edit:
On May 08 2012 07:13 tsango wrote:
sounds like they've listened to the community for a change, now if we could just get shared replays...


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