EPTBlizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 53
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kineSiS-
Korea (South)1068 Posts
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Crushgroove
United States793 Posts
Thanks for that shared rep viewing blizz. Really appreciate it! | ||
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FuRong
New Zealand3089 Posts
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OminouS
Sweden1343 Posts
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Grani
Germany50 Posts
Even a 2013 release wouldn't shock me. | ||
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BreakfastBurrito
United States893 Posts
"Hell, its about time." anyway, a tear of joy rolled down my face as i read this ♥♥♥ | ||
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Seiniyta
Belgium1815 Posts
On May 08 2012 12:24 Liquid`Zephyr wrote: admittedly its just my opinion. if, while designing the biggest and most anticipated rts sequel of all time, Multiplayer resume from replay, Global Play, Multilanguage support, Clan/group system, Unranked matchmaking and Multiplayer replay viewing seem like things that never crossed blizzards minds as things that could be added to sc2 [while most have existed in other, older, blizzard games with overwhelming positive feedback], or you believe that they believed the community would not enjoy then you are free to take the other side. Contray to popular belief, despite the cash cow that's World of Warcraft Blizzard doesn't has an endless amounts of resources to work with when developing a game. I'm sure those things crossed Blizzard's mind during developement but their priority were elsewhere. The game engine, building the framework of battle.net 2.0, not only for SC2 but for World of Warcraft and Diablo 3. I think most of the work went into the game engine and made sure you can actually play it. They also probably looked at Battle.net 1.0 and saw what people were actually using things for, they initially scrapped chat channels in battle.net 2.0 because they found that chat channels in the first one were dominated of spammers and the like which isn't ideal. It was a bad idea to remove chat channels but I can understand their thought process. They probably went over all the stuff and cut things that they thought would speed up developement time by quite a bit. (remember, SC2 was in developement for ages). I also think that after WoW Blizzard kind of forgot that what works for a MMO doesn't always work for an RTS. (The lack of Global play) for example. Although Blizzard made some terrible decisions not including some crucial things It's probably not because of some marketing scheme. They prefer had all that stuff at launch and for HoTs come with actual new exciting changes to Battle.net instead of these overdue things. | ||
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foxmulder_ms
United States140 Posts
Also, this new matching thing will kill the ladder so I don't like it. | ||
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TheRPGAddict
United States1403 Posts
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On May 08 2012 12:24 Liquid`Zephyr wrote: admittedly its just my opinion. if, while designing the biggest and most anticipated rts sequel of all time, Multiplayer resume from replay, Global Play, Multilanguage support, Clan/group system, Unranked matchmaking and Multiplayer replay viewing seem like things that never crossed blizzards minds as things that could be added to sc2 [while most have existed in other, older, blizzard games with overwhelming positive feedback], or you believe that they believed the community would not enjoy then you are free to take the other side. If only someone could've invented a machine to read minds we could just make a perfect product in the first place! Nah, they are holding back on purpose. All of these features have been in since 2007. You heard it here first. I have a leaked Excel sheet. It even has a ">  " face in one of the cells. | ||
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sheaRZerg
United States613 Posts
Still no LAN. Yes all these things are great, but with the exception of maybe multiplayer replay viewing...i cant imagine it should have taken more than a matter of weeks to hack that stuff together. I thought blizzard used to be all about getting it right before releasing their products. Oh well, I guess im the sucker that thought this stuff would be implemented shortly after the release of WOL. | ||
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Tyree
1508 Posts
Great stuff | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On May 08 2012 07:36 Gigaudas wrote: Multiplayer resume from replay Global Play Multilanguage support Clan/group system Unranked matchmaking Multiplayer replay viewing While I'll def. have to purchase the expansion I can't help but hate Blizzard even more for being a company that makes money by screwing customers over. These functions aren't something that you should get in an expansion, they are easy to implement and should've been patched into the game as soon as Blizzard realized people's demand for them (which should've been back in the beta of 2010). I used to be happy to help fund Blizzard. Now I consider them a scourge of the gaming market, a company who's ideals must be fought for the sake of us gamers - and the only way a customer can fight is with his wallet. It likely won't require the expansion. But you'll get it anyway. So why whine about it. | ||
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SgtCoDFish
United Kingdom1520 Posts
1) They add the occasional new feature asap during live release, and risk breaking other things and having to take down b.net for a while, inducing untold forum nerd rage. Testing is really hard 'cause barely anyone wants to play a PTR. 2) They wait until HotS when lots of people can beta test and get flamed by people saying they're trying to farm money from customers and that it's been too long a wait. All that aside: most features can be programmed in relatively simply, and I'm sure Blizzard could've "hacked in" (I mean hack in the proper programming sense) solutions for things like clan support. But trying to do things quickly like that can leave you with problems in the future; it can leave you open to situations where you realise to make future feature x work properly, you're going to have to go back and rewrite the "quick fix" code you wrote earlier because it doesn't play nice with the rest of the system, which would obviously be a massive waste of time invested. Trying to add these kinds of new features to a live system like b.net is going to be really hard. Waiting until beta (where a couple of days' downtime now and then is totally expected) is smart. I would've liked some of these features sooner, but I can certainly understand why Blizz have waited for an expansion. As such, I'm just happy they've been finally announced. | ||
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Icemind
Germany570 Posts
The man that showed them how. Pretty impressive feature list all arround but i wont start jumping in excitement before it actually is released  | ||
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Chewie
Denmark708 Posts
![[image loading]](http://s15.postimage.org/6up87ky6f/hey_blizz.jpg) Also: + Show Spoiler + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9E8ZdOdus&list=PLC1966225EA0940E4&index=1&feature=plcp And: | ||
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Dhalphir
Australia1305 Posts
On May 08 2012 01:05 bmml wrote: Classic, shit we shouldve got for free but have to pay for. Good nonetheless I guess. They don't specify that this would be included with the expansion. | ||
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CongoJack
Canada417 Posts
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
On May 08 2012 14:14 foxmulder_ms wrote: Well, this is too little too late so i am still disappointed. We had shared replays 15 years ago... Also, this new matching thing will kill the ladder so I don't like it. It won't kill the ladder. The ladder will be more meaningful knowing people there want to actually be there and compete and do care about their ranking. Suddenly the ladder is a lot more meaningful than today in terms of competition. | ||
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JeffS
Canada31 Posts
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