Blizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 44

On May 08 2012 08:45 MasterKang wrote:
Does anyone know if the unranked matchmaking will have MMR or if it will be just random people? Becuase if it's random people, it's basically the same as joining a custom game on a standard ladder map, which matches you with online people already

On May 08 2012 08:47 blade55555 wrote:


Unless I am mistaken it is going to cost 40$ not 60. Unless that has changed recently as blizzard has stated multiple times that they are having it the cost of an expansion.

On May 08 2012 08:55 Dingobloo wrote:
I already assumed this stuff was coming as they're nice back of the box style features that they can put on the expansion packs budget, the problem is by tying these kind of large features to the release of the expansion packs they're now playing catch up. This stuff is all base line, and they still aren't where Dota 2 or LoL is with their infrastructure such that we can watch our friends ladder or play games on a delay or with only their fog of war which has basically become standard.

And they still can't commit to releasing with heart of the swarm, only "at or around the release of HotS".

On May 08 2012 09:00 Adreme wrote:


Honestly I would pay 60 if thats what they wanted to charge. I mean they are giving me the content of a full game+multiplayer bonuses which is certainaly worth the cost of a full game.

On May 08 2012 08:58 ThunderGod wrote:
The technology's just not there yet!!!!

Sorry but I will believe this when I see it. All of this could have been implemented at any time pre or post release but they didn't consider it important enough. What Blizzard don't seem to realise is lack of these features caused a lot of people to stop playing, the whole experience was just too isolating.
-Couldn't watch replays together
-Couldn't try funsie builds to keep game fresh w/o hemorrhaging ladder points
-No clan support!
-Can't play with online friends from overseas w/o forking out $$ for another account.

The community would have been even stronger than it is now if these features had been included from beta/release. Why they think these things aren't important to growing their game is just idiotic, especially when they have all the knowledge of what made their previous games successful. Foremost, it is and always will be, a community of players.

/rant

On May 08 2012 09:01 Adreme wrote:


I disagree purely because with developement time new features take we probably wouldve gotten the game in either 2011 or early 2012 and the community would not have had time to grow to what it is.

On May 08 2012 08:18 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:


Depends on the expansion size. An update like this is HUGE. It brings a new campaign, new units, TONS of balance work and now all these new features we were asking for. It seems comparable in scale to the original game, or at least comparable enough to warrant paying 60 dollars for it.
If it was just the new campaign, or even the new campaign and the tons of work going into creating and balancing the new units during and after development, I wouldn't pay full price. Fortunately for them, this laundry list of awesome features that they just dumped on us warrants the payment I feel.