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Green Sun s Zenith
Profile Joined February 2012
Canada85 Posts
May 09 2012 04:28 GMT
#1401
what about multiplayer replay viewing ... that is pretty sick
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sandyph
Profile Joined September 2010
Indonesia1640 Posts
May 09 2012 05:08 GMT
#1402
On May 09 2012 09:27 KingofGods wrote:
Resuming from replays is only useful for live events/tournaments (which would ideally be lan anyway). How could it possible work for the average Joe (ladder player) ?

1) You get disconnected from a ladder game.
2) Reconnect
3) Find opponent, hope he's still on, hope he's not currently busy, and then hope he's nice enough to want to restart game rather than taking a free win
4) Restart game.



Im sure this will be limited to custom games, not ladder

1. you're playing with your friends
2. a big end of game battle ensued and you make a mistake
3. after the game you think, I should've done this instead of that

before HotS
4. well we'll never know

after HotS
4. contact your friend and ask him to replay from the point before the battle
5. try your theory
6. now we know

Put quote here for readability
ScruffyJanitor
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia108 Posts
May 09 2012 05:13 GMT
#1403
This will definitley bring me back to Starcraft 2 now I won't be staring into space thinking about how I could be doing more productive things,
maybenexttime
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Poland5552 Posts
May 09 2012 05:40 GMT
#1404
On May 09 2012 09:14 Arkless wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 09 2012 09:08 rotegirte wrote:
On May 09 2012 08:46 Arkless wrote:
On May 09 2012 06:43 Rebel_ wrote:
On May 08 2012 20:13 Sergio1992 wrote:
On May 08 2012 18:54 Rebel_ wrote:
On May 08 2012 18:48 Sapphire.lux wrote:
On May 08 2012 18:32 imMUTAble787 wrote:
Glad everyone is so excited about paying for things that should have been included in WoL or patched in for free.

Now i like to give Blizzard a hard time for a lot of things but that is just wrong. They have worked on WOL for 2 years now, from balance to engine improvements. Verry few companies do that, for free.


You must be confused... every company does patches for free. The only thing that companies charge for are add-ons (DLC's).... I have not see any company that charges for their own patches... If so, do tell.

Anyways, this is fucking awesome! Finally they have told the community what they will do for HoTS and it is what we all wanted. Browder said they could not add LAN due to the engine, so if you want LAN wait 4 years for LoV (it is not going to happen, but i hope lag will deteriorate in the coming years... and i think he said it when Catz was interviewing him last year).

Clan support and Unranked ladder is just damn great!

Can't wait for HoTS! Thank you blizzard for listening to what the community wants!

I'm not actually really sure I will buy Hots anytime soon, because Starcraft 2 is still a beta game,with all these functionalities lacking, the sad thing is that there are blind people that don't understand that even if in beta state it is sold as a complete game.
No wonders that blizzard became like that, wanna bet with me hots will be sold for 60€, not just as a mere expansion?
And blizzard fanboys will start saying "ehhhh that's a huge new game you are just a pathetic worthless piece of life if you don't see how good blizzard is on delivering us what we wanted". Yes, delivering a new game to complete a beta game.
And milking out people' wallet, and people still don't understand it, how fools they are, they just trust in Blizzard.....

I hope not to be the only one that is able to see what Blizzard is doing... Making games with half the features they should have to have people ready to buy the day one the expansion. Great marketing, nonetheless, because poeple still fall for it.

But I hope that when there will be an alternative to starcraft 2( if there will never be), I will be the first to abandon blizzard's ship




Well think of it like this... They have to release two expansions... So just new units will not make the community happy. The community sucks to make happy, since they want this and that. Look at CoD, same game every year with different skins and small additions. People will buy things that has a well known name attached to whatever they sell. I had a feeling they would add all of this in the next expansion. Since new units will not be enough to keep people satisfied to buy HoTS. So, yes it is good marketing, since they are with activision. They are getting told on how consumers work.

You do not understand how the gaming market works. Some companies will do this since recession is still here and games are not selling as well they were in the past. I never said it wont be a new game, but they listened to what we want. Well, I am not a fanboy of blizzard because it is actually Activsion-Blizzard. The game is not getting milked ( Halo and God of War are milked games). The game will be below 60 dorras... did you get the memo? And you are not the first person to abandon "blizzard's ship", a lot of people have.


Something tells me Sergio1992 is one of the few remaining BW elitists left here on TL. There are so many fail points to your post, it makes your opinion invalid.

Saying WoL is simply a beta game, is outrageous and wrong. What do you think 90% of the invested money goes towards?
Multiplayer-Nope
Patches-Nope

Guess what does!! Singleplayer!! Do you have any idea how much cgi costs? Let alone 30 missions full of 3d rendered motion images, full music soundtrack. Voice acting, etc. It is absolutely worth 60 dollars, and is not just an expansion.

Just because we bitched about things such as
-lan
-clan support
-replay sharing

Doesn't mean we are entitled to it, which is a huge problem in this community. Sense of entitlement. I don't blame blizzard for protecting their IP rights, with no lan. That way there is no ICcup etc. As awesome as ICcup was for us, it was a way to play the game for free and blizz lost out in the end, regardless of what you. In my personal life I can name 3 friends that played BW ICCup, and never paid for the retail version at all, ever. Times that by just the amount of people that frequent this site alone and that's a dickload of lost income.

They don't make this shit for free, and certaintly didn't make sc2 out of the goodness of there hearts for us. They are a FOR PROFIT business, and therefore don't give a shit if they don't make a profit.

Tl;DR Grow up man, you don't get shit for free in the real world, you are spoiled and probably to young to remember the pre internet days where you actually had to pay for everything.


There is one little thing you forget in your memo of capitalism: the customer. Grow up man, people don't just give you money for free in the real world. You are spoiled and probably too young to remember the pre-ZYNGA days where you actually have to satisfy a customer.

Sure Blizzard is a business, no shit Sherlock. Though one would think an optimally run business would look back at things they did great and were loved for and try to preserve it. At makes much sense to actively decide to scrap things that worked in favor of Facebook integration and a complete cripple of the custom game system.

All the infrastructure arguments are pure bullshit. When you create a system from scratch, it's the single biggest opportunity to make things exactly the way you want it to. The fact WoL came a decade later also means you have contemporary technology available. "You can't re-create what was done years ago"- what non-sense. More than ever you can. Better than ever. More efficient than ever. Creating from scratch means to define exactly the capabilities and not to be constrained by old tech. When the net-code of WoL doesn't allow it, means only three things:

1) You never wanted it to be possible
2) It is possible, but you always wanted to release it later in favor of other things
3) It is bad net-code

Of the three possibilities, there is valid room to critic- as a customer. I don't have to care whether and why they didn't want or couldn't do this or that. All I know is that the features existed for decades, contemporary rival companies were always able to produce them, and for whatever reason it was decided to leave them out to release after. For money, because of bad programming- I don't have to care. It first and foremost is their problem.

There is also a little thing called, having the option to NOT buy the product if you think it sucks. No point in buying a game if you're just gonna whine/moan/bitch about it after the fact. You bought the game as is, so why bitch now? Did you walk into w/e u bought WoL pissed off giving them your money? You knew there was no lan/clan support etc when you originally bought WoL. So if so, why did you even bother to buy it? So you could "have the right" to bitch about it afterwards???

They could have just said meh, fuck it no free patches. They don't have to do shit after the fact, just like how Heinz doesn't have to come refill my ketchup bottle every time it empties.

Your capitalism argument is just plain stupid. You weren't anywhere apart of who I was responding to. So if you're going to try and be cute, be original son. Come up with your own shit instead of copy/paste/change 1 word.


Well, I did not buy WoL for those very reasons (among other flaws of the game). Does that make your argument invalid? I bet you're gonna say I'm not entitled to criticize blizzard now since I did not pay for WoL. Then who is?

People have been blizzard's faithful customers for 10-15 years, they have every right to complain when they release a game with half the features of their previous titles...
Prinny-tai
Profile Joined November 2010
United States71 Posts
May 09 2012 05:44 GMT
#1405
Unranked MM has a possibility of being a bad thing as well, though, I'll be interested to see how it plays out
The Khala is a religion of peace
Bayyne
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1967 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-09 05:47:12
May 09 2012 05:46 GMT
#1406
On May 09 2012 14:44 Prinny-tai wrote:
Unranked MM has a possibility of being a bad thing as well, though, I'll be interested to see how it plays out


In what way? I'm curious. I come in peace.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Deimos0
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Poland277 Posts
May 09 2012 06:57 GMT
#1407
I'm curious how unranked MM can be a bad thing, considering all those topics about ladder fear. Besides, I know BW didn't have unranked MM, but as far as I remember, playing unranked games were as much fun as ladder ones so I don't really see the problem. Unranked MM can be actually good for ladder, as it will bring competitive players, leaving casual ones to play custom games or unranked.
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firehand101
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3152 Posts
May 09 2012 07:07 GMT
#1408
I think unranked MM is the perfect solution to ladder anxiety. If they hide all results for this mode it would be even better, because that is what the average joe fears the most-letting his friends find his 10 losing streak
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FGFGFG
Profile Joined March 2012
Netherlands21 Posts
May 09 2012 08:13 GMT
#1409
people are overreacting.
Never get excited over an announcement, haven't you learned anything?
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
May 09 2012 08:20 GMT
#1410
On May 09 2012 17:13 FGFGFG wrote:
people are overreacting.
Never get excited over an announcement, haven't you learned anything?

But it's been so long since we've just had an announcement for something that's not an announcement.
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bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
May 09 2012 09:08 GMT
#1411
Blizzard marketing wins again Unfinished product becomes finished* if u buy a big DLC.

But im still sceptical about this featured list, no chat channels/FB integration at release sceptical, you could say.

*probably
Stork[gm]
Ryuu314
Profile Joined October 2009
United States12679 Posts
May 09 2012 09:21 GMT
#1412
lol that everything will be released "at or around" HotS
Zarahtra
Profile Joined May 2010
Iceland4053 Posts
May 09 2012 10:02 GMT
#1413
On May 09 2012 15:57 Deimos0 wrote:
I'm curious how unranked MM can be a bad thing, considering all those topics about ladder fear. Besides, I know BW didn't have unranked MM, but as far as I remember, playing unranked games were as much fun as ladder ones so I don't really see the problem. Unranked MM can be actually good for ladder, as it will bring competitive players, leaving casual ones to play custom games or unranked.

Well there will be effects on ladder from availability of unranked MM. From my POV, the most likely effect will be a bit of decrease in games(and probably more refined play on ladder). Another possibility would be for a good player to decrease his MMR and then go on killing spree in unranked MM, making the game less fun for lower leagued players(although it can be done on ladder, the player needs to give lower leagued players free wins to keep his MMR low).

A potential effect would be that ladder anxiety increases and a big portion of the community just plays unranked MMR rather, since they don't want to fx. drop down a league.

There are tons of things that can go wrong, Blizzard just needs to implement it very carefully to prevent it, because most of it is just the social aspect/how the players persieve things.
Girondelle
Profile Joined December 2010
France969 Posts
May 09 2012 10:58 GMT
#1414
So, they basically adressed almost all of the complains of the people, well done Blizzard, well done...
KivTM
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia90 Posts
May 09 2012 11:15 GMT
#1415
lol at "new features", most of these, we already had in bw and wc3. What a joke...
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-09 11:21:46
May 09 2012 11:21 GMT
#1416
On May 09 2012 19:02 Zarahtra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 09 2012 15:57 Deimos0 wrote:
I'm curious how unranked MM can be a bad thing, considering all those topics about ladder fear. Besides, I know BW didn't have unranked MM, but as far as I remember, playing unranked games were as much fun as ladder ones so I don't really see the problem. Unranked MM can be actually good for ladder, as it will bring competitive players, leaving casual ones to play custom games or unranked.

Well there will be effects on ladder from availability of unranked MM. From my POV, the most likely effect will be a bit of decrease in games(and probably more refined play on ladder). Another possibility would be for a good player to decrease his MMR and then go on killing spree in unranked MM, making the game less fun for lower leagued players(although it can be done on ladder, the player needs to give lower leagued players free wins to keep his MMR low).

A potential effect would be that ladder anxiety increases and a big portion of the community just plays unranked MMR rather, since they don't want to fx. drop down a league.

There are tons of things that can go wrong, Blizzard just needs to implement it very carefully to prevent it, because most of it is just the social aspect/how the players persieve things.

I don't see of these as problems. If less people play on ladder, how is that a problem? It will just make the ladder more competitive.

One way to fix players dropping MMR in ladder games to lock in a low MMR for unranked games is to have a separate MMR for unranked games that initializes to the ladder MMR. Alternatively, use the maximum of the ladder MMR and the separated unranked MMR for unranked games.
Flooz
Profile Joined April 2012
United States37 Posts
May 09 2012 12:56 GMT
#1417
this is AWESOME!!!! i really hope global play actually happens. i feel like they have said it before and it never did
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Loophole
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States867 Posts
May 09 2012 12:59 GMT
#1418
Nice. Thanks Blizz! This is most of the important stuff we've been asking for.
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PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
May 09 2012 13:01 GMT
#1419
On May 09 2012 18:08 bgx wrote:
Blizzard marketing wins again Unfinished product becomes finished* if u buy a big DLC.

But im still sceptical about this featured list, no chat channels/FB integration at release sceptical, you could say.

*probably

Apparently this stuff comes in 1.5 not in HotS. So if for some crazy reason u don't want HotS then u still get these features.
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fuzzz
Profile Joined October 2010
267 Posts
May 09 2012 13:30 GMT
#1420
dunno if asked before, but does anyone know if you can customize your matchups in unranked matchmaking? say veto mirrows etc...?
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