The Automated Ban List - Page 2081

On September 08 2013 20:29 Atlasy wrote:

I will tell you that sc2 has nothing to do with BW in terms of popularity, of course if progamers switch back it brings a bit of exposure but in long term it doesn't achieve anything. BW won't be resurrected unless someone does the same thing that was done with DotA because let's face it who wants to start to play a 15 years old game, that is insanely demanding mechanically and requires tons of practice to simply win against the worst players. I have played much more SC2 in my life than BW there are insane amount of game engine flaws/horrible design that can immediately make today's gamer turn of the game, of course these things are also the appeal of the game for us who want nostalgia (I was introduced to BW when I was 4 years old and I love the graphic, and the stupid bugged AI but probably only because it is the part of the game and this makes the game great, if the game had beautiful shiny graphics I wouldn't be able to feel the same as I do when I play BW). With all those shiny new games coming out every year BW has no chance because the simplest features are missing from BW. An esport game MUST HAVE an automatic matchmaking, basically today there is no multiplayer game that doesn't have it. And this is only the tip of the iceberg there are many more things that have to be changed in order to BW become appealing a little bit to an average player.

We will see a bit of increase in BW's popularity in the upcoming months, it's definitely a possibility, with Birdie's new server coming up that on paper has a lot of important features (but no one has seen it yet so it is possible that it will work horribly so I don't get my hopes up). And the ex-BW pros switching back to BW but the interest can only last for a few months, BW won't reborn because of it.
Or this whole stuff will simply fail, the new server wont attract anyone/it will be unplayable for various reasons/the features crash the program all the time and it completely becomes a pain in the ass so ppl won't even bother with it etc. and the BW pros will realize that it is pointless to play the game and be part of the competition now and from the occasional streaming they will return to their real life and apply to an ordinary job.
I hope the first case will become the reality and really really hope that Birdie's server will bring in thousands of Koreans and new players and SC2 players that want to transition. Because it will be wasted time from them if the server will only have 100 players online at a time, it has to be bigger than ICCUP and have to kill it, because I don't think that with such a small playerbase the foreigner scene could sustain 2 servers. SO Birdie fighting!~~~~

And of course the best case scenario is that Valve (or a similar developer who can do the same that Valve's done with Dota2) will create BW2 and it will make a big splash, but that probably will only remain a dream because today no one really cares about RTS games anymore only MOBAs/ARTS/ASSFAGGOTS.

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On September 09 2013 07:42 Firebolt145 wrote:
Read the ban reason.

On September 09 2013 07:52 BigFan wrote:

ya, I read it. Seems his approach to arguing isn't what it should be and he got banned because there are too many reports that relate to it. Did I miss something? lol.

On September 09 2013 07:52 BigFan wrote:

ya, I read it. Seems his approach to arguing isn't what it should be and he got banned because there are too many reports that relate to it. Did I miss something? lol.

On September 09 2013 07:57 Firebolt145 wrote:

Nope. And it's not just arguing.