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Why I dont care about the beta anymore. - Page 4
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WastedYouth
United States563 Posts
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D-Lite
United Kingdom223 Posts
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HalfAmazing
Netherlands402 Posts
Why would you intentionally limit functionality? It just reeks of such arrogance. Truly disgusting. | ||
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Lighioana
Norway466 Posts
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Kambo_Rambo
Australia79 Posts
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Jayson X
Switzerland2431 Posts
Just imagine we had a tl.net channel when beta went live (hilarious) and the little other rooms that would spawn with it, all the clans who represent in their channel or just simple meetup points for tournaments. I will play of course, but over the amount of months and years without features like online replays and chatrooms would make it so massively dull. I can see myself play 3-4 games and then leave because there is nothing that binds you to it but playing. | ||
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ohIdentity
United States52 Posts
On May 19 2010 19:04 Metaspace wrote: Without chatrooms, I wont buy this game, and recommend all other not to. And please shut up about how SC1 was not perfect at the start - we are talking about a basic feature present in all decent online games, including SC1 - why go away from it? Please do not tell me you think it would have been such a terrible effort to include it in the beta. Unless proven wrong, one has to assume Blizzard left this one out for a specific reason, and that it will not come except public opinion dictates it. Wait, seriously? You might as well go play Perfect World or something if chatting is that important to you in a game. | ||
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Orpheos
United States1663 Posts
On May 19 2010 21:49 ohIdentity wrote: Wait, seriously? You might as well go play Perfect World or something if chatting is that important to you in a game. im not saying hes right, but if you dont think chatting and a good social framework for bnet is important, you are missing out on alot of the fun online gaming offers. | ||
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SoL[9]
Portugal1370 Posts
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ohIdentity
United States52 Posts
On May 19 2010 21:52 Orpheos wrote: im not saying hes right, but if you dont think chatting and a good social framework for bnet is important, you are missing out on alot of the fun online gaming offers. Yeah, it was a really nice feature of Bnet, I mean I've been playing SC1/D2 for years and years but I mean...to not even buy the game because of it? That's unreal. It sounds like he's just saying that to stick by his OP, but he's probably already pre-ordered the game. Ha. | ||
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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Coraz
United States252 Posts
computers have keyboards attached to them I demand chatrooms in my online multiplayer game. How will you have clan channels and stuff? And what other Blizzard game doesnt have chatrooms since Diablo came out over 1000 years ago? What is this, 1989? edit: I havent met anyone on sc2 so far because its just random forced matches with strangers who disappear forever when the game is over, so I have to post on TL forums instead  | ||
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ymirheim
Sweden300 Posts
A more public chat system however or some kind of channel system is essential for filling certain other aspects of the social side. Everyone wants such a system and blizzard has in fact more than once said that they ARE adding such a system so I don't understand why these threads won't die. I doubt you will see this chat system in the beta, because from a game developers point of view it makes no sense. You can test a communication platform in house without setting up more distractions for the beta testers who you want to spend 100% of their time actually playing the game. Expect to see chat on July 27'th though. Something I would love to see added though and I have not heard anything about this being implemented is some functionality for sorting and structuring your buddy list into categories or something. That would be infinitely helpful in getting rid of some of the chaos of having anything more than 20 friends. | ||
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michiko
United States75 Posts
On May 19 2010 19:04 Plexa wrote: + Show Spoiler + On May 19 2010 19:01 KwarK wrote: Chat channels are great but I can't believe you can't find anyone to talk to while playing sc2. I mean you're posting on a forum filled with people playing sc2. How is it that you can't see a solution to your problem of not knowing anyone who plays sc2? There must be some way of contacting other people who share your interest. even though i have friends in the beta i barely have any interest playing it, there is nothing to make me want to go online, nowhere to idle and just chat about w/e or meet new people. Furthermore, I've known Tabyling for a long time now (05 i think?). We met on bnet and are good friends. The sheer amount of time we spent repping/chatcrafting in random channels etc far out weighs the time we actually spent gaming. Perhaps we're just not much of the gaming type, but the social aspects of SC1 are desperately lacking in SC2. To date, my only fond memory of SC2 is gaming with Manifesto otherwise I've been mostly bored out of my skull. A few interesting questions to ask yourself are - How many games of SC2 can I recall vividly? (compare w/ SC1) - How many memories have I made during SC2? (compare w/ SC1 and specifically, where those memories occurred). I just want to, first, agree with the OP and most of the follow up posts. Blizzard, really needs to add some core functionality that was/is missing during beta. I really don't see a point to chat channels or replay watching in a beta environment; i truly don't, these things should not be a part of beta... We are generation Y in that regard, the generation of entitlement. Don't, for a second, think we deserve anything! Those features, the ball is really in Blizz's court. This is not 1998 anymore, SC2 will not dominate the scenes blindly as it did back in the 20th and early 21st century - if Blizz wants to take a shot at connecting the RTS communities, it's gotta provide features...I hope and highly assume, they understand this. --Now the "How many memories have I made during SC2 comment...."-- Take that question and frame it in the context of any frickin thing in your life, things that caused great emotion and/or memory in the past will be MUCH harder to trump later in life. I remember CoD 1 & 2 causing such great emotion and energy (epic SP), but no longer does that happen. Anyway - Have faith! | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States43410 Posts
But a question about that: Was it absolutely necessary that they include those things (namely channels) in the beta? I mean, the beta is about finding imbalances and problems with the gameplay itself, right? Maybe they just assumed that whatever StarCraft Channels 2.0 they were going to implement didn't require our input? I mean, I really never had a problem with the original StarCraft channels (though I'm sure they'll look much different in SC2). With the exception of the spambots, of course... but then you just move to a new channel and tell your friends. So perhaps Blizzard didn't want to give everything away about StarCraft 2 (or maybe the whole thing isn't even set up yet!), and only wanted us to help balance the races as much as possible? | ||
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Spidermonkey
United States251 Posts
As it turned out during one of our in between game converstations, a large portion of us lived in California... not only in California but we realized that 5 of us lived in the same city. We met up a few days later and since 1998 those have been some of my closet friends. I've lived with them, drank with them, been to weddings, kids births, and graduation parties. All because we happend to be in the same SC channel 12 years ago. This can't happen now. | ||
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yomi
United States773 Posts
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Galleon.frigate
Canada721 Posts
Personally... as former wow player the thought that I'll be chatting with my wow buds while playing is farly big. I'm sure most of the social feature are just like 3v3 and 4v4 they don't need tuning so they want everyone online playing what they want to test | ||
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Zhou
United States832 Posts
Which they did, so they probably got what they want, and I expect that when they close down and return the beta in the last few weeks before the game comes out, I believe some sort of chat system (Not the PM one) will be inserted into the Battle.net. I'll be one person to say that I'm kind of excited that they're integrating the games together in causeBnet, cause a lot of my friends play WoW, not SC2. >: | ||
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