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Where dat snitch at?37044 Posts
Greetings, commanders!
We’re off to a great start in 2017 with StarCraft II. On the esports side, GSL is well underway in Korea, the massive WESG tournament wrapped up in China, NationWars just completed, IEM Katowice is around the corner, and SHOUTcraft Kings is kicking off. Speaking of SHOUTcraft, we just added a TotalBiscuit announcer pack in the last patch, and more co-op content is on the way, including missions, commanders, and the leaderboards feature.
We wanted to give an update on the War Chest, which we announced back at BlizzCon. The War Chest is a limited time in-game event that will allow StarCraft II players to buy-in and gain access to unlockable content like skins, digital comics, and more. The more you play, the more content you get access to. We currently plan on the first War Chest to be made available in Q3 of this year. A portion of proceeds from that War Chest season will go toward increasing the prize pool for the 2017 WCS Global Finals over the base prize pool of $500,000.
We plan on sharing much more information about War Chest later this year, as we draw closer to the release of the program.
Source: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20753085101
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"will go toward increasing the prize pool for the 2017 WCS Global Finals"
I always thought it increased the prize pool of the WCS Championships, not the Global Finals.
EDIT: wow, first warchest until Q3, no wonder it is for the Global Finals. That is so late!
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sorry but.. what does mean Q3? :$
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On January 26 2017 06:52 Khalimaroth wrote:
sorry but.. what does mean Q3? :$
Third quarter of the year probaly
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On January 26 2017 06:52 Khalimaroth wrote:
sorry but.. what does mean Q3? :$
Quarter 3 of the year, so the months 6-9 basically.
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I thought it was no later than Q2, or do i remember what they said wrong?
The fact that it's only for the global finals really sucks but better than nothing i guess
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Nice, we get compendiums.
LET'S GOOOO!
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at least they do something even if its kinda late . Hope for 2018 we can buy for wcs 2018 prizepool/ other events . And
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Q3 wtf
I really hope they come out with some separate stuff before then.
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Hmmm... This seems like a substantial change from the way they talked about it to us at Blizzcon. My understanding was that there would be a warchest for each season in addition to something special for the finals. Or at least that's how I remember it being described to us by Blizzard folks while we were at the event. Maybe there was a change of plans or maybe my memory is just incorrect.
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"A portion of proceeds from that War Chest season will go toward increasing the prize pool for the 2017 WCS Global Finals over the base prize pool of $500,000"
WHAT portion? 50%? 25%? 0,000005%?
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Disappointing to say the least. Can anybody who plays heroes tell us if they are that slow with skins, etc there as well?
Everything concerning sc2 seems so half-assed tbh. Yes there are some highlights like TB's voice pack, but even there it looks rather like the achievement of TB and not so much like blizzard doing a good job tbh.
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On January 26 2017 07:10 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Can anybody who plays heroes tell us if they are that slow with skins, etc there as well?
For adding new features that require programming etc like this, yeah I think the argument can be made that Heroes has felt slow. I think that's the issue here is that they don't just have to make the content, like have their artists make the skins and portraits, but they've also gotta write new code and make new UI's to implement the war chest idea. They probably consider their deadline as being in time reasonably before the global finals this year and they're planning to use all that time.
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On January 26 2017 07:09 True_Spike wrote:
"A portion of proceeds from that War Chest season will go toward increasing the prize pool for the 2017 WCS Global Finals over the base prize pool of $500,000"
WHAT portion? 50%? 25%? 0,000005%?
I doubt it, but it would be cool for Blizzard to release some statistics on how many war chests were bought. We can probably extrapolate some of this from how much over $500k the prizepool turns out to be.
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sigh, did not mean to repost. delete plz
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On January 26 2017 07:17 NonY wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2017 07:10 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Can anybody who plays heroes tell us if they are that slow with skins, etc there as well? For adding new features that require programming etc like this, yeah I think the argument can be made that Heroes has felt slow. I think that's the issue here is that they don't just have to make the content, like have their artists make the skins and portraits, but they've also gotta write new code and make new UI's to implement the war chest idea. They probably consider their deadline as being in time reasonably before the global finals this year and they're planning to use all that time.
Well but it's not just the war chest now tbh, i understand that this requires more work than adding a few skins.
But we didn't really get much microtransactions in the past few months. (specifically talking about things you can use on ladder)
I think it's not too harsh to say that blizzard is really slow here.
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On January 26 2017 07:10 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Disappointing to say the least. Can anybody who plays heroes tell us if they are that slow with skins, etc there as well?
Everything concerning sc2 seems so half-assed tbh. Yes there are some highlights like TB's voice pack, but even there it looks rather like the achievement of TB and not so much like blizzard doing a good job tbh.
Actually people are, overall, quite happy with HOTS devs. Compared to the rest of their games, this one looks like it being developed by a different company.
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On January 26 2017 08:01 Ramiz1989 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 26 2017 07:10 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Disappointing to say the least. Can anybody who plays heroes tell us if they are that slow with skins, etc there as well?
Everything concerning sc2 seems so half-assed tbh. Yes there are some highlights like TB's voice pack, but even there it looks rather like the achievement of TB and not so much like blizzard doing a good job tbh.
Actually people are, overall, quite happy with HOTS devs. Compared to the rest of their games, this one looks like it being developed by a different company.
Maybe i should give it another try? At the very beginning it didn't seem to be interesting to me after playing lol and a bit of dota2
But yeah in general i am really disappointed with blizzard. For all the love OW gets i simply cannot see why. Their take on ctf is horrible, i cannot see how it took them so long to release such a bad version of it.
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So, when is blizzard going to stop the bs and say they actual value for portion?
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I'm looking forward to WarChest!
+ Show Spoiler +Just to add some positivity here...
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