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On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier?
Welcome to capitalism. It's difficult to charge $40 for a game that is nothing more than a patch. I am serious and it should be transparent to anyone. If any of you think Blizzard would sacrifice the sales of HoTS copies for e-sports, you haven't taken an economics class.
I am not saying they are evil or anything. I am sure the good-willed Mr. Browder and Mr. Kim would want to find the perfect balance, but at the end of the day the final say goes to those who are responsible to shareholders.
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On June 16 2012 14:57 usethis2 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier? Welcome to capitalism. It's difficult to charge $40 for a game that is nothing more than a patch. I am serious and it should be transparent to anyone. If any of you think Blizzard would sacrifice the sales of HoTS copies for e-sports, you haven't taken an economics class. I am not saying they are evil or anything. I am sure the good-willed Mr. Browder and Mr. Kim would want to find the perfect balance, but at the end of the day the final say goes to those who are responsible to shareholders.
I dunno why you're bringing capitalism into this, it's simple game design. If you gave a carrier 22 damage and heavily nerf the damage it'd basically be a tempest that costs more money and is also worse. It makes no sense.
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What if all the balance whiners on TL were actually David Kim?!
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On June 16 2012 14:57 usethis2 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier? Welcome to capitalism. It's difficult to charge $40 for a game that is nothing more than a patch. I am serious and it should be transparent to anyone. If any of you think Blizzard would sacrifice the sales of HoTS copies for e-sports, you haven't taken an economics class. I am not saying they are evil or anything. I am sure the good-willed Mr. Browder and Mr. Kim would want to find the perfect balance, but at the end of the day the final say goes to those who are responsible to shareholders.
LOL wtf? Even if they ditched the Tempest and brought back the carrier as is, the game could be justified at $40 on the fact that its has a whole new campaign. Add in the changes to battle.net and multiplayer changes, its practically a brand new game. People pay $60 a year for the same CoD game.
The fact that the carrier is out and the tempest is in has nothing to do with capitalism or HotS sales. If anything it would hurt HotS sales cause more people are disappointed about the carrier being cut than the new tempest.
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On June 16 2012 15:10 Fragile51 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2012 14:57 usethis2 wrote:On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier? Welcome to capitalism. It's difficult to charge $40 for a game that is nothing more than a patch. I am serious and it should be transparent to anyone. If any of you think Blizzard would sacrifice the sales of HoTS copies for e-sports, you haven't taken an economics class. I am not saying they are evil or anything. I am sure the good-willed Mr. Browder and Mr. Kim would want to find the perfect balance, but at the end of the day the final say goes to those who are responsible to shareholders. I dunno why you're bringing capitalism into this, it's simple game design. If you gave a carrier 22 damage and heavily nerf the damage it'd basically be a tempest that costs more money and is also worse. It makes no sense.
not to mention if you give the carrier 22 range and dull the damage, its not the carrier anymore.
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On June 16 2012 13:34 darkness wrote:
What bothers me is they don't say how to deal with 'Abduct'. They say the replicator was bad because it was ruining unit diversity and what not, but 'Abduct' is just destroying the much needed units in a protoss or terran army. It's causing a similar problem as replicants imho.
Suggestion: Abduct can't pull massive units. That's a good start imho.
That render the ability useless as its priority is taking out key units, just like what Neural used to be.
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I liked the questions, the responses in this interview are something I haven't heard yet which is nice considering all the interviews and HotS coverage lately.
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On June 16 2012 14:57 usethis2 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier? Welcome to capitalism. It's difficult to charge $40 for a game that is nothing more than a patch. I am serious and it should be transparent to anyone. If any of you think Blizzard would sacrifice the sales of HoTS copies for e-sports, you haven't taken an economics class. I am not saying they are evil or anything. I am sure the good-willed Mr. Browder and Mr. Kim would want to find the perfect balance, but at the end of the day the final say goes to those who are responsible to shareholders.
You know you get a whole campaign with it right? Has to be the biggest patch ever then.
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On June 16 2012 13:56 Roe wrote:
I still don't get why they can't just increase carrier range to 22 and dull the damage. Dustin Browder said he can just go to his desk and in 5 minutes change the range of the tempest to something lower, so why not do that to the carrier?
because TwentyToo is dustin's favourite number :D
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Anytime GiantBomb crosses with SC2 is a good time. Love Brads questions
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Awesome interviews!
The part that piqued my attention the most was when David Kim spoke about the Raven.
If they are actually open to, and possibly considering tweaking some numbers, Terrans might have some chance yet.
Also glad to see that they're watching the Queendralisk closely.
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I agree carriers are the core to the race. Carriers are awesome with upgrades and a couple of voids to support.. i dont know why people expect them to rock against 2-1 corruptor with 0-0 upgrades just doesnt make any sense.. Why i think carrier is awesome ? Because as zergs are getting good at spreading their bls against vortex going ONLY mothership with archons is just coinflip, compare to an army that is capable of dealing with bl festor(pretty much with anything) DIRECTLY
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Good interview. Better than others because the interviewer seemingly spent time thinking of more unusual questions and actually knows how to speak clearly and form coherent questions without fumbling in the complexity of enunciating them. As a viewer I also felt the interviewer put on display more personal interest in the questions and answers unlike others.
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I wonder how much time will pass in the beta until they nerf Entomb. Within 1 week Terran and Zerg players will all whine about this ability in the forums.
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On June 17 2012 01:41 Proseat wrote:
Good interview. Better than others because the interviewer seemingly spent time thinking of more unusual questions and actually knows how to speak clearly and form coherent questions without fumbling in the complexity of enunciating them. As a viewer I also felt the interviewer put on display more personal interest in the questions and answers unlike others.
The interviewer is known to be a avid Starcraft 2 player on the gaming site (GiantBomb) he represents and frequently watches the GSL in his spare time. I think he's typically regarded as the best interviewer on that site.
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Can someone list some new things, that he said. Or transcribe, but not fully with all text, maybe with list of some new info from D.Browder
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On June 17 2012 02:36 -Archangel- wrote:
I wonder how much time will pass in the beta until they nerf Entomb. Within 1 week Terran and Zerg players will all whine about this ability in the forums.
Us forum-goers aren't that bad, are we?
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Best interview Ive seen with Browder and Kim
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Just buff the carrier. Let it be microable like the BW carrier. Problem solved, everyones happy.
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