MPQ Modding Shutdown Petition - Page 11
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
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marxgarza
United States373 Posts
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
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Losiff
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metaStatic
Australia7 Posts
not to mention it is essentially hacking because it gives an unfair advantage to the person with the mod | ||
Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On July 27 2012 17:07 metaStatic wrote: never understood how blizzard could support colour mod despite modding being against the TOS not to mention it is essentially hacking because it gives an unfair advantage to the person with the mod Interested to know why you think the colour mod would give a player an advantage over others. Assuming you're not colour blind, do you genuinely have trouble differentiating between which units are yours and your enemies? | ||
Lumi
United States1612 Posts
On July 27 2012 17:07 metaStatic wrote: never understood how blizzard could support colour mod despite modding being against the TOS not to mention it is essentially hacking because it gives an unfair advantage to the person with the mod LMAO oh yeah so imba | ||
georgir
Bulgaria253 Posts
And also a certain category of mods that only change interface/visuals/sounds etc, perhaps after some official review process, should be allowed in ladder games, and for just one player not all players in the match. You should get an indication if your opponent is using some such mods, and maybe even the option to download and use it yourself, after the game or even before the match starts. Mods that change the interface outside of a match can also be made possible with an official tool instead of mpq editors. | ||
stfouri
Finland272 Posts
On July 27 2012 17:07 metaStatic wrote: never understood how blizzard could support colour mod despite modding being against the TOS not to mention it is essentially hacking because it gives an unfair advantage to the person with the mod Being colourblind gives you the edge when one can't see if the banelings are their own or you enemies, same with zerglings. Blizzards own mode just makes it worse, dunno wtf they were thinking. | ||
Terminal
United Kingdom2109 Posts
If there's not even the slightest possibility for cheating or gaining some kind of advantage then there's no reason to disable modding, but otherwise it's only fair it needs to go until Blizz come up with a solution for modding themselves. | ||
Rice
United States1332 Posts
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
On July 27 2012 16:19 Plexa wrote: Without knowing Blizzards future plans, I can't say that this is necessarily a bad move. Maybe in HOTS they will be monetizing mods? Would that be necessarily a bad move? ... Yeah, it would. Just like the idea of monetizing UMS maps that they never ended up implementing. They weren't there to support the map making community in brood war and whos to say it would have helped* (TO MY KNOWLEDGE which is lacking). But from what I've seen in other games, the reduction of mod capability in exchange for DLC and microtransactions has turned away most of the talented workers. In the end we get a meh product that's good enough I suppose.. at least its not buggy.. in exchange for money and the annihilation of diversity. On July 27 2012 17:14 Teliko wrote: Interested to know why you think the colour mod would give a player an advantage over others. Assuming you're not colour blind, do you genuinely have trouble differentiating between which units are yours and your enemies? I know it wasn't directed at me but in zvz, yeah, it's happened before. | ||
HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Seohce
United Kingdom394 Posts
Voted to let us keep modding! | ||
ujonecro
United Kingdom846 Posts
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Teliko
Ireland1044 Posts
On July 27 2012 17:42 Probe1 wrote: I know it wasn't directed at me but in zvz, yeah, it's happened before. Fair enough. Would you have lost any games because of it? Say you played 100 ZvZ's with and without the team colour mod, do you think your win ratio would be increased directly because of the mod? | ||
Sea_Food
Finland1612 Posts
As in if this goes trough, will it be impossible to have english UI on the korean server? If yes, I wonder how GOM would handle it. | ||
Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
On July 27 2012 17:33 Terminal wrote: Isn't there still some potential for cheating though? I mean, I'm not really familiar with it.. but what about cloaked units for example? Is is not possible to reveal them far more easily etc? If there's not even the slightest possibility for cheating or gaining some kind of advantage then there's no reason to disable modding, but otherwise it's only fair it needs to go until Blizz come up with a solution for modding themselves. Yea there is potential to cheating, making units stand out more. or how about making them bigger so they are easier to click on. Conveniently people seem to forget about this little fact. If if truly was the only the stuff the OP said Blizzard wouldn't have bothered with it. This is back like wow model editing days, blizzard did nothing for a while but then people started to abuse it like making minerals the size of raidbosses or making stairs out of nowhere and nobody could reach you. There is a reason they are just now stopping this, probably found some questionable stuff. | ||
Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
On July 27 2012 18:18 Sea_Food wrote: Does anyone here know that if this change goes trough, will it also disable every relocalizer? As in if this goes trough, will it be impossible to have english UI on the korean server? If yes, I wonder how GOM would handle it. With Hots you will have same functions like in diablo 3 - global play and language change in game options | ||
trbot
Canada142 Posts
On July 27 2012 18:30 Assirra wrote: Yea there is potential to cheating, making units stand out more. or how about making them bigger so they are easier to click on. Conveniently people seem to forget about this little fact. If if truly was the only the stuff the OP said Blizzard wouldn't have bothered with it. This is back like wow model editing days, blizzard did nothing for a while but then people started to abuse it like making minerals the size of raidbosses or making stairs out of nowhere and nobody could reach you. There is a reason they are just now stopping this, probably found some questionable stuff. Or it's a side effect of adding a new feature (e.g., game streaming while the downloader is installing, akin to Diablo III's install-while-playing)... (Those things can potentially be done by editing MPQs, but things just as bad or worse (e.g., map hacks) can be done easily without editing MPQs, either.) | ||
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