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Bensam123 wrote:Considering how they're gearing down WoW.
Game_boy wrote:The Battle.net positions are because they want to replace the whole team after how bad SC2's bnet was (constant disconnections, basic features like chat channels/clan tags/LAN/custom game lobbies missing from SC1->SC2, unplayable cross-continent lag (NO ONE can play EU <-> KR which was fine in SC1))
absurdity wrote:Game_boy wrote:The Battle.net positions are because they want to replace the whole team after how bad SC2's bnet was (constant disconnections, basic features like chat channels/clan tags/LAN/custom game lobbies missing from SC1->SC2, unplayable cross-continent lag (NO ONE can play EU <-> KR which was fine in SC1))
Fact or speculation? I only ask because you present it as fact, but it sounds like speculation. I don't think there's such a thing as "SC2's bnet" either; battle.net is just battle.net.
They probably (hopefully) plan to integrate Titan with battle.net more, and that could be the driver for all these positions too. With how the integration is with SC2/D3, WoW makes you feel fairly disconnected.
Game_boy wrote:Yes, Bnet is the whole thing, but the specific parts of it for SC2 didn't work.
Evidence: The Lead Designer opening has been up since last July, which is the same time they finally implemented chat channels. The number of openings in the Bnet there has been increasing ever since, as well as a stream of essentially apologies from Blizzard and that they'd soon get round to implementing everything there except LAN. The department was also dispropotionately hit by the round of 600 layoffs did earlier this year.
Starfalcon wrote:Actually blizzard and activision are owned by the same company, vivendi. Activision does not actually own blizzard, they are two seperate companies owned by the same company. As for the Blizzard dying thing, I have been seeing people say that since wow came out....OMG blizz is abandoning its RTS roots to make this terrible online game game, then in TBC it was OMG blizz is making the game so easy with removal of all the hard stuff...and so on every expansion. People have been claiming blizz is dying for over 10 years, and it gets old quick.
Just let the rage go and just don't buy their games, I am tired of all the people like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uf3b0N9 ... ature=plcp they keep playing and complaining to ruin other peoples fun.
lilbuddhaman wrote:The effect of the merger has had a direct and substantial effect on Blizzard's games.
The blatantly obvious one is Diablo 3's RMAH + Online Always hooks. Always Online did NOT solve the supposed bots/hackers that it would fix (google D3 bot / D3 hacks), and the devs have admitted to balancing the game around using the AH. (ie: you do not progress unless you use them, or grind for hundreds of hours, even for slight upgrades). But lets not forget the paid mounts/pets in wow, which interestingly get new models/artwork, yet players who pay not only the subscription fee but also the expansion box, are given reused artwork/models.
If you read some of the job openings that point towards Titan, you learn that it will have HEAVY microtransaction hooks, heavy use of social media hooks, and in-game advertisements.
I complain because I don't like being lied to, and there were dozens of promises made about D3 that ended up being completely false.
lilbuddhaman wrote:If you read some of the job openings that point towards Titan, you learn that it will have HEAVY microtransaction hooks, heavy use of social media hooks, and in-game advertisements.
I complain because I don't like being lied to, and there were dozens of promises made about D3 that ended up being completely false.
lilbuddhaman wrote:I complain because I don't like being lied to, and there were dozens of promises made about D3 that ended up being completely false.
tanker27 wrote:Complaining about Free to play games with microtransactions is like complaining about breathing oxygen, its going to happen get over it.
Bensam123 wrote:Gearing down? That's why they're adding tons of new features in this coming expansion, right?Nah, Wrath was the pinnacle of WoW. It's pretty easy to tell the quality has went down since then and continues to do so. They just don't care about the game anymore and it shows. Like I said, it's being geared down. EQ2 still has expansion packs being put out for it, that means relatively little except they want to milk consumers for all they're worth.
Bensam123 wrote:They just don't care about the game anymore.
JohnC wrote:Saying that "the quality of the game went down" is a pretty vague thing to say, and such subjective impression can be explained by other things...
Bensam123 wrote:tanker27 wrote:Complaining about Free to play games with microtransactions is like complaining about breathing oxygen, its going to happen get over it.
What asinine logic. Just because something exists does not mean you can't disagree with it. Sometimes there aren't better options available or there isn't a better method. Blatant acceptance of whatever is in front of you as 'fact' that you can't change is just down the street from learned helplessness.
AbRASiON wrote:Warcraft 4, Warcraft 4, Warcraft 4 PLZ!!!!!!
tanker27 wrote:AbRASiON wrote:Warcraft 4, Warcraft 4, Warcraft 4 PLZ!!!!!!
They have already stated that Titan will be all new IP.
There will probably never be a Warcraft 4 unless they sell the IP or rights to another studio.
tanker27 wrote:There will probably never be a Warcraft 4 unless they sell the IP or rights to another studio.