I feel custom game improvement should be top priority. They have been making changes but it still has a long way to go. The editor changes are really nice and have really opened up a lot of opportunities for maps but getting people to play these maps is a nightmare. Free to play is definitely a good option though Blizzard will need to find a good way to monetize. Perhaps in-game advertising from in-game streams/tournaments? Or perhaps opening up the custom games marketplace... Picking one is very difficult overall so I hope Blizzard focus on implementing at least the top 3 or so poll results.

hunts

United States2113 Posts

October 24 2012 06:31 GMT

#82

It's so hard to choose, but if I had to pick I would go with other: automated tournaments WC3:TfT style. Those were awesome and wanting the tournament only icons kept me playing.

ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

October 24 2012 06:32 GMT

#83

On October 24 2012 15:06 Dingobloo wrote:
Allowing Global play and trying to fix the latency issue that is around. (10)
Allowing you to watch replays with friends. (5)
Changing how ladder works and giving you more stats. (2)

These three are all announced as coming already, seems like a bit of a pointless exercise to just say "well...do these faster"

In Client Spectator and Tournament Promotion (13)

Not sure why this is lumped together, the in-client spectating is more interesting so I can watch my friends ladder or watch them play a team game rather than as another way to promote a tournament, if I wanted to watch a pro player or tournament I can already do this through a stream or a replay because most pro's have the capability and financial incentive to stream their games.

Good initiative Sheth, but there's some stuff lumped together that I think should be separated for clarity, and some stuff that's already officially on the way that seems pointless to get too up in arms about.

"Go Free to play" would also be an interesting option.

Yes! Global play is a must, replays with friends- not sure why this wasn't here from the start, And yeah i would like to see my ladder stats vs which race % wise and how i'm doing aside from the "o i've won x games and lost y games".

I also think there should be some sort of refer a friend option for sc2. It would give incentive to spread the word about sc2 if a current player got something out of it. This would help the player base grow alot. What could they get? Maybe some sort of special icons or skins for your units or whatever.

captainwaffles

United States1050 Posts

October 24 2012 06:33 GMT

#84

How small is the Sc2 team? These all seem like things that should already be in the game. Were you on the team the that Mr.Bitter and Catz put together?

Still not sure, going to sleep on it and vote when I wake up tomorrow.

theqat

United States2856 Posts

October 24 2012 06:33 GMT

#85

On October 24 2012 15:31 Resonance wrote:
I honestly cant see how the in client spectator thing would work, unless you disabled messaging while in it or added a long delay to prevent cheating.
I really want to watch replays with friends and LAN support, but we all know it isn't going to happen. Unless blizzard is a troll and releases it with HoTS so it seems like they really do love us

Dota2 (and presumably LOL) have two-minute delay for live spectators.

Liquid`Sheth

United States2095 Posts

October 24 2012 06:35 GMT

#86

I changed the poll a little bit just to make it clearer. Shouldn't have had tournament promotion + spectator client together. And added F2P model. Thanks for the advice guys.

ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

October 24 2012 06:35 GMT

#87

With riot's spec mode they have a 2-3 minute delay from when the game started. So say the game pops up for spectating, it has already been going on for 3 minutes, but you are able to view it from the start. This prevents people from messaging the players what is going on in game. Sure someone could message them but it would be stuff they already knew which doesn't change a thing due to the delay.

Juustokalle

Finland31 Posts

October 24 2012 06:36 GMT

#88

In my opinion the most important part is to get ingame client where you can watch tournaments and maybe even manage observer tools by yourself, like you could for example check players apms and players vision when ever you like. For me it would make tournaments alot more enjoyable.

In addition i would also like to see "custom ladders" ingame. Like anyone would be able to make custom ladders in game for a small cost. Like for example ESL could make their own ladder where the winner at the end of the season would get some price money. I dont know if its possible but imo it would be cool

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19307 Posts

October 24 2012 06:36 GMT

#89

I really wish there were more polls. That way we could voice our opinions on many thing and blizzard could see the majority.

lichter

1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts

October 24 2012 06:36 GMT

#90

So hard to teach friends how to get better when we can't watch the same replay, sheesh

Introvert

United States4908 Posts

October 24 2012 06:37 GMT

#91

I hesitate to complain about balance, as I'm not good enough to have a useful opinion, but PvZ is just lame to play. Even watching mech in EVERY TvP in BW was more exciting than sc2 pvz right now. Purely from a fun factor outlook.

I honestly don't care about the other options. Though having F2P so I could have different accounts for different races...

bayaka

Canada102 Posts

October 24 2012 06:37 GMT

#92

Please fix some of the issues with Protoss (PvZ, gateway units being incredibly weak for their cost, etc...) I think a lot could be done to make the race more interesting overall.

Merikh

United States918 Posts

October 24 2012 06:39 GMT

#93

For lan sheth, I think you should have said "Lan at major events" that has similar feel to how it feels online. At least that way the events can be ran as smoothly as possible. That's what we all want isn't it? I don't think they'll ever release public lan functionality, but I don't see any reason to NOT give the MLG's, GSL's, Dreamhacks's, and ESL's a lan client for their players to reduce crashes and game restarts because there's no real way to continue from where the game crashes atm.

ZeromuS

Canada13403 Posts

October 24 2012 06:39 GMT

#94

I think if the game was free to play more people would at least try it.

Imperfect1987

United States558 Posts

October 24 2012 06:40 GMT

#95

Nevermind Poll changed again.

ReachTheSky

United States3294 Posts

October 24 2012 06:40 GMT

#96

I also feel that there should be some sort of in-game tournaments goign on at all times. It would be much easier to sign up for tournaments. In-game brackets and all. This would further competitive play even further. People could host tournaments. People could join tournaments. Link it with paypal somehow and you are all set. Buy-in tournaments for a small fee would be cool too like they do in online poker sites. Blizzard would take a small % and the rest would be distributed amongst say topp 4 or top 8 depending on how many players are in the tournament.

Maynarde

Australia1286 Posts

October 24 2012 06:40 GMT

#97

I voted in client viewing as think it'd be a really awesome reason to log into Bnet2.0. At the moment the only reason for that is tournaments / laddering.

It's already been discussed by so many people but "micro transactions" are a way of making TONS of money from a game and keeping people interested in playing SC2 casually as well for a LONG time. Blizzard want copies sold, what's better than selling a 60 dollar game? Selling a 60 dollar game and getting the same amount again from the one user from micro transactions. It could end up lowering the cost of buying the game completely, it could lead to "multi player versions" being free, it would definitely be something nice to have.

Things that I see as legitimate micro transactions (already mentioned but will list anyway); skins, portraits, banners, name changes (hehe) and "make-your-own" clan banners / insignias in HotS.

EDIT: In client Blizzard held tournaments would also be amazing, they were so good for WC3. This would be a 3rd choice for me.

Wafflelisk

Canada1061 Posts

October 24 2012 06:41 GMT

#98

Voted other. I want a faster/more thorough rotation of maps (GSL maps would be nice) fix close positions Entombed/Antiga, have a really diverse map pool (we can use our vetos if we find some to be too weird/imba), and put depots on ramps.

While I am bored of how stale a couple of the matchups more, I'm mostly bored playing the same maps over and over again. Wasn't Metropolis supposed to back, btw?