| Leeoku May 08 2012 06:54. Posts 1076 | Profile # |
| oh wow they took that guys work. HIRE HIM |
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| Nesto Switzerland. May 08 2012 06:54. Posts 883 | Profile # |
| wow, with all those changes Bnet 2.0 will be nearly as good as Bnet 1.0 |
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| Rannasha Netherlands. May 08 2012 06:55. Posts 2257 | Profile Blog # |
| So HotS brings all / most of the features that we wanted in Battle.net. Somehow I'm not surprised. I think a lot of people underestimated Blizzard in them not knowing how to make a functional B.net and I'm convinced that many features were left out intentionally to serve as a selling point for HotS. |
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| NEXUS6 United States. May 08 2012 06:55. Posts 406 | Profile # |
| this looks like a lot of very nice things |
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| shizaep Canada. May 08 2012 06:55. Posts 1083 | Profile Blog # |
| Wow, huge props to blizzard. I wouldn't trust any other company to make a game like StarCraft. Really excited about all the planned upgrades. |
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| Tsuki.eu Portugal. May 08 2012 06:57. Posts 1029 | Profile # | |
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| Nazeron Canada. May 08 2012 06:57. Posts 1032 | Profile # |
| OMG, FINALLY, THANK YOU BLIZZ. We did it you guys! we did it! |
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| Plansix United States. May 08 2012 06:57. Posts 5348 | Profile Blog # |
On May 08 2012 06:51 SarcasmMonster wrote:
I wonder how long it would take the Blizz to develop all these features they're promising from scratch. Can any professional software developers/game developers comment?
Basically I'm curious how long it would have delayed WOL if these were implemented before release.
Development is very hard. A game is "content" locked almost six month or more before release. This means all the features that they have in the game are locked in. The rest of the time is spent polishing the game and making it super crisp. SC2 may be an exception when it came to the multiplayer units and balance, but the B.net features were likely locked in 6-10 months before release. Adding new ones would have required more polishing and bug testing, which increases the QA time(quality assurance). The more features they add, the more time they have to spend testing them all. I don't know how much time these features would have added, but it would have been a noticable amount, since they were focused on getting the ladder working and a world wide launch. |
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| KimJongChill United States. May 08 2012 07:00. Posts 6424 | Profile # | |
| | MMA: U realise MMA: Most of my army EgIdra: fuck off MMA: Killed my orbital MMA: LOL MMA: just saying MMA: u werent loss |  |
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| envisioN . United States. May 08 2012 07:00. Posts 541 | Profile # |
| Huge step forward for Blizzard. The ability to eliminate the problems of dropped players during tournaments isn't quite as good as LAN but definitely the next best thing. With Blizzard though, I'm going to expect maybe half of this list to be running with HOTS, and will hopefully be pleasantly surprised if it all goes live. |
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| -Exalt- United States. May 08 2012 07:00. Posts 966 | Profile Blog # |
| no name change function? wtffff it's said "coming soon" for more than a year |
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| Pwnographics New Zealand. May 08 2012 07:01. Posts 1048 | Profile # |
/Jim Raynor voice:
Hell it's about time. |
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| NukeD Croatia. May 08 2012 07:01. Posts 452 | Profile # |
On May 08 2012 06:46 tnud wrote:
Show nested quote +On May 08 2012 06:45 shineq wrote:
On May 08 2012 01:03 awwnuts07 wrote:
Essentially, this is all the stuff we've been asking for.
Aside from LAN, which I don't care about that much and understand why it's not there, yeah. I'm so happy that Blizzard is adding all of those features, shows that they listen :D I'm confused about multilanguage support though, we already do have translated clients, is that just adding the ability to switch languages in-game like in the WoW beta/PTR clients?
Basically yeap. The BW teams wanna play on English version and an in game choice is way better then messing with files.
So basically what I understood from this is that BW pros and KeSPA had a huge part in this. I bet they conditioned Blizzard to make this stuff. Also GOM, Mr. Chae to be exact, complained in a interview about Battlenet feeling empty and said they influenced Blizz into making a lot of improvements map wise. Judging by that I can see that as the most likely scenario of what happened. |
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| Sub40APM May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 2017 | Profile # |
| Gotta love the Activision model. "Patch? Why patch when we call it 'expansion'! and charge the same price!" |
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| mikedebo Canada. May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 2933 | Profile # |
On May 08 2012 03:55 Dodgin wrote:
Multiplayer resume from replay
Thank fucking god, Blizzard. Thank fucking god.
God has heard your feeble thanks, and this is his response:
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| SarcasmMonster May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 2897 | Profile # |
On May 08 2012 06:57 Plansix wrote:
Show nested quote +On May 08 2012 06:51 SarcasmMonster wrote:
I wonder how long it would take the Blizz to develop all these features they're promising from scratch. Can any professional software developers/game developers comment?
Basically I'm curious how long it would have delayed WOL if these were implemented before release.
Development is very hard. A game is "content" locked almost six month or more before release. This means all the features that they have in the game are locked in. The rest of the time is spent polishing the game and making it super crisp. SC2 may be an exception when it came to the multiplayer units and balance, but the B.net features were likely locked in 6-10 months before release. Adding new ones would have required more polishing and bug testing, which increases the QA time(quality assurance). The more features they add, the more time they have to spend testing them all. I don't know how much time these features would have added, but it would have been a noticable amount, since they were focused on getting the ladder working and a world wide launch.
You're a paralegal, not a software dev >
Thanks for the insight. So if we wanted some medium-big feature upon seeing the HOTS beta, I guess it likely won't make it in due to logistics. |
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| Witten United States. May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 1166 | Profile # |
Blizzard is so smart. Release WOL missing tons and tons of features, people will play because its SC2. People start getting bored and anticipation for the expansion isn't high, decide to release all the features the first game should have came with, met with applause for "listening to the community". Sorry guys maybe I'm just a cynical prick but all of this should have been in the game when I bought it over two years ago. At this point its hard to get excited about them including everything that should have been included from day one.
Also still no LAN. I don't care about it but a lot of people do. |
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| PiPoGevy Australia. May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 1557 | Profile Blog # | |
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| JitnikoVi Russian Federation. May 08 2012 07:02. Posts 396 | Profile # |
wow this is alot of quality additions
i still prefer the old broodwar custom game hosting system as opposed to the current one where only the front page games are ever played |
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| j1nzo Germany. May 08 2012 07:04. Posts 249 | Profile # |
nice changes!
it was about time... |
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