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OblivionMage
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada377 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-04 20:15:14
June 04 2013 19:40 GMT
#101
As though any of my friends (or me) still play SC2...

Edit:

Instead of making a few simple changes to custom game lobbys that have been suggested since 2010, Blizzard continues to act as though the ladder is where people will most want to play. Hidden losses, unranked play, and spawning. Cool. Or, you know, they could just give us a proper custom games lobby (only one list available, showing only games currently open and being hosted, with kick privilages to the host).

Yeah, the Warcraft 3 system as an example looks like crap right now, but that's because of the spammy bots that over-host games with no players in them. The system was very good before the flooding of the bots (it's fine with only a few bots) that outnumbered the potential players.

But no, that might interfere with the marketplace idea they've been tossing around since Beta. Hur, hur.
Icemind
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany570 Posts
June 04 2013 19:46 GMT
#102
I was about to post that i really like this and wanted to commend blizzard for it.
Then i read that it is limited to one race ... its better than nothing but it doesnt impress me nearly as much as it would if it was not limited
[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
June 04 2013 19:47 GMT
#103
Did someone try this? I did but I am still limited to Starter Edition. This is also true when I set my expansion level to WoL.
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
Tuczniak
Profile Joined September 2010
1561 Posts
June 04 2013 19:54 GMT
#104
On June 05 2013 04:47 [F_]aths wrote:
Did someone try this? I did but I am still limited to Starter Edition. This is also true when I set my expansion level to WoL.
It's on NA, but on EU not yet.
opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
June 04 2013 20:11 GMT
#105
Nice, so we basically threw 40 Euro out of the window for the second copy of HoTS, because we (me and my wife) have two SC2s only to play team games together.

It seems so nice that Blizzard "gives away free stuff" but in fact, it is quite incosiderate to people who paid for the same thing a couple of months ago.
"Jeez, that's far from ideal." - Serral, the king of mild trashtalk
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
June 04 2013 20:13 GMT
#106
Interesting, should've been done much much earlier though. Still limited to one race, should've tried two lol
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
June 04 2013 20:17 GMT
#107
Now I can get my friends who only have WoL to play with me :D
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9224 Posts
June 04 2013 20:36 GMT
#108
Really amazing feature.
Life/Seed//Mvp/NaNiwa fighting! ZeNEX forever!
ChristianS
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States3304 Posts
June 04 2013 21:05 GMT
#109
On June 05 2013 04:40 OblivionMage wrote:
As though any of my friends (or me) still play SC2...

Edit:

Instead of making a few simple changes to custom game lobbys that have been suggested since 2010, Blizzard continues to act as though the ladder is where people will most want to play. Hidden losses, unranked play, and spawning. Cool. Or, you know, they could just give us a proper custom games lobby (only one list available, showing only games currently open and being hosted, with kick privilages to the host).

Yeah, the Warcraft 3 system as an example looks like crap right now, but that's because of the spammy bots that over-host games with no players in them. The system was very good before the flooding of the bots (it's fine with only a few bots) that outnumbered the potential players.

But no, that might interfere with the marketplace idea they've been tossing around since Beta. Hur, hur.

What does any of this have to do with anything? We get it, you liked the old custom games system. Apparently neither you nor any of your friends play SC2 any more, but you still feel the need to hang out on an SC2 forum and berate Blizzard for their handling of the game. None of that changes the fact that if Blizzard says, "Hey! We have a new feature!" responding with either "But I prefer other games these days" or "But there's this other feature of your game I disagree with" is entirely off-topic.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon
Antylamon
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1981 Posts
June 04 2013 21:08 GMT
#110
On June 05 2013 05:11 opisska wrote:
Nice, so we basically threw 40 Euro out of the window for the second copy of HoTS, because we (me and my wife) have two SC2s only to play team games together.

It seems so nice that Blizzard "gives away free stuff" but in fact, it is quite incosiderate to people who paid for the same thing a couple of months ago.

You wouldn't believe the rage that Valve got when TF2 went F2P.
Greendotz
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2053 Posts
June 04 2013 21:09 GMT
#111
On June 05 2013 01:43 o29 wrote:
Also worth noting:

There's a new (Carbot, actually) portrait/achievement to accompany the change. + Show Spoiler +
[image loading]]

That's bigger news than the initial topic imo ^^
Digitalis
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1043 Posts
June 04 2013 21:18 GMT
#112
-.- only terran
GinDo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
3327 Posts
June 04 2013 21:26 GMT
#113
Yea I noticed this like 2 weeks ago when I got my friends to play SC2 Starter. When I made a game and added to my party we were able to play HOTS. They loved the game so much both of them bought SC2+Hots.

^_^
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Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
June 04 2013 21:32 GMT
#114
On June 05 2013 06:18 Digitalis wrote:
-.- only terran

all 3 races are available
yo
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-04 21:57:04
June 04 2013 21:51 GMT
#115
On June 05 2013 06:32 Killmouse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2013 06:18 Digitalis wrote:
-.- only terran

all 3 races are available

Just found on their announcement, that 3 races available is limited time for starter edition.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/10157995/

"But wait – there’s more! We’ve enabled the Protoss and Zerg races for the StarCraft II Starter Edition. That means all Starter Edition players can choose from all three races for a limited time."
twitter: @terrancem
Stancel
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
June 04 2013 21:58 GMT
#116
On June 05 2013 01:52 Mortal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2013 01:43 o29 wrote:
Also worth noting:

There's a new (Carbot, actually) portrait/achievement to accompany the change. + Show Spoiler +
[image loading]]

starting a petition for a carbot zergling portrait. maybe a marine with a sandwich, and an infestor with a hellion toy.


screw portraits, art of those by fishuu would be even better
ffxiv enjoyer
shin_toss
Profile Joined May 2010
Philippines2589 Posts
June 04 2013 22:47 GMT
#117
my friend is terran so good for him. My question is, if my friend had donwloaded a starter edition of Starcraft 2, and I spawned him in HotS,how does that gonna work, Is he gonna be DL'ing the whole HotS content (which is pretty big) first? OR is starter edition has already HotS content but just locked ?
AKMU / IU
FoShao
Profile Joined November 2012
United States256 Posts
June 04 2013 23:01 GMT
#118
pretty sweet
Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
June 04 2013 23:14 GMT
#119
On June 05 2013 07:47 shin_toss wrote:
my friend is terran so good for him. My question is, if my friend had donwloaded a starter edition of Starcraft 2, and I spawned him in HotS,how does that gonna work, Is he gonna be DL'ing the whole HotS content (which is pretty big) first? OR is starter edition has already HotS content but just locked ?

the 2nd, locked but already dled
yo
youngminii
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Australia7514 Posts
June 04 2013 23:16 GMT
#120
Hectic, I'm still on WoL.

This might actually get me to try HotS.
lalala
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