Blizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 73

On May 10 2012 20:41 SgtSlick wrote:
I hope that unranked matchmaking includes fast speed instead of faster, or even the 7 mineral patches as opposed to 8 as fun alternative matched games.

On May 10 2012 06:27 Cascade wrote:

While it would be really cool to have a function that find a person playing the correct race, of the correct skill, wanting to play right now on the correct map, it may not be that easy to find at any point.

The normal ladder just finds a person of the right skill, that wants to play ladder as well. If you filter out a specific race you want to play, you get only a third of the people to search among, and you can expect three times as long queue time. If you also want to select one of the 9 ladder maps, there will again be a ninth of the players available, and you are looking at a queue time 27 times the ladder. And that is assuming everyone will start playing these custom games instead of the ladder... If people spend on average a third (for example) of the time in these custom "select everything" mode, you will have another factor 3 fewer people, and almost 100 times as long queue time.

And if you are in the situation that people (for example) want to train on TvP a lot, but the protoss (at the requested skill level) don't feel the need to play PvT (at that map) in this custom mode as much, then a lot of the terrans just wont have anyone to play with. I mean, if for example during a day, blizzard server get's 2500 TvP requests (on that map), but only 1500 PvT requests, there will be 1000 sad terrans in the queue..

Similar problem if for example there are a lot more diamond level players requesting games vs master lvl players, than there are master level players requesting games vs diamond level players. The diamond level players will sit in the queue forever, together with other diamond players, waiting for those few master level players wanting to bash some noobs. The problem could of course be the opposite, just saying that if there are not the same number of players on each side of the matchup, in race or skill, there will be people that wont find their game).

So while it would be a really cool feature, there are problems that are kindof out of blizzards control.
Or maybe they will find some smart solution to it, or just hope it wont be a big problem. Personally I don't really see a way in which it can be done though. Maybe it is just easier to find an opponent by contacting a teamie that is laddering, or on skype.

On May 10 2012 23:07 fuzzz wrote:

as much as i like bw too, this would absolutly make no sense...

On May 11 2012 21:26 Soma.bokforlag wrote:
any news on release date?

On May 11 2012 21:01 SgtSlick wrote:


why doesn't it make sense?

On May 11 2012 21:28 Integra wrote:

Blizzard had a conference call for its investors a few days ago and the expansion beta won't come out during 2012 at least. So 2013 earliest.

On May 10 2012 20:41 SgtSlick wrote:
I hope that unranked matchmaking includes fast speed instead of faster, or even the 7 mineral patches as opposed to 8 as fun alternative matched games.