South Koreans Aren't Playing StarCraft II
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I can see the new battle.net be popular among more causal player. For example, my freinds think the battle.net 2.0 is great. That is due the the fact custom game list got completely remade, it is way easier to search for a certian map now.John Funk said:
However they reinvented too much in term of interface, for example I have a hard time with the Custom Game rooms, those options seems confusing. Couple that with the fact Blizzard didn't tell you what do they mean. For example, in Melee game mode the host don't get to kick people, yet in custom mode you can. This create a lot of confusion around whether the host can kick or not. Not explaining the difference of the option is bad design on Blizzard's part.
And then there is the confusion around Single player can't play skirmish with A.I. because people didn't realize it is not under Multiplayer tab, but under single player tab "Versus A.I." option.
Overall, Blizzard did a very bad job on informing people how to use the Battle.net.
My only problem now (that is after learning the interface) with the new Battle.net is the lack of LAN which to be fair I never used it before... but I do know some people use it, and it seem quite important to them.
Personally, I never got why not including LAN for normal player is such a big deal, nothing stop you from connecting two close by computer over battle.net, expect when the server is down, and how often do you plan LAN party right when server is down. You might say when there is no internet, 10 year ago that would be a reasonable answer, but it is 2010 people.
Unless you live in some region where internet is not popular yet.
Bnet 2.0 is pretty terrible in the sense of no LAN. MLG Dallas kinda showed that to quite a few people and hopefully Blizzard sees just exactly how big an issue like this can be. Along with anumber of other issues. However, plenty of people seem to be watching SC2 and plenty of Brood War players are switching.
Hell players like NaDa and SlayerSBoxeR doing so well can only encourage more of them to come and give tournaments a try if only for the big prize pools.
I'll be the first to tell you the reason it's not doing as well is because of Blizzard's lawsuits against OGN and MBCgame. Toss in with Kespa's anti Blizzard campaigns(They've had media calling NaDa a traitor..) South Korea's a rough market due to both Blizzards own problems and some heavy handed internal policies of Korea's game association.
Hell players like NaDa and SlayerSBoxeR doing so well can only encourage more of them to come and give tournaments a try if only for the big prize pools.
I'll be the first to tell you the reason it's not doing as well is because of Blizzard's lawsuits against OGN and MBCgame. Toss in with Kespa's anti Blizzard campaigns(They've had media calling NaDa a traitor..) South Korea's a rough market due to both Blizzards own problems and some heavy handed internal policies of Korea's game association.
They managed to sue a woman for more money than she would ever see in four generations, just because she made a private server. I prefer to think of this as a sort of payback.
This is probably the only time we'll ever see a bunch of gamers all band together and actually boycott a game for a combined reason. Serves Blizzard right for trying to gain too much control for itself, I suppose.
I hear they wanted to make people pay to be on BattleNet after they lock them into the game. Bummer. StarCraft wasn't that good. The AI knew where your base was before the game even started. They'd head right for you, and you'd have to explore the map to find them. Also, there was no difficulty settings. You had to go buy WarCraftIII for that and the game doesn't work on Windows7 because the AI is too intense. If you put AI in matches people ignore you because it crashes.
I'm sorry to hear about Korea. You know that's really sad they messed up on their biggest fans. Oh well, maybe they'll get StarCraftIII right. /sigh
I'm sorry to hear about Korea. You know that's really sad they messed up on their biggest fans. Oh well, maybe they'll get StarCraftIII right. /sigh
I feel like the story is long enough.JaredXE said:
The problem with LAN popularity as a business model is..ActiBliz sees none of the dough anyway.
This way in the long run, when the entire country switches over, they will get money. If it was the same as before? Sure, the entire continent could be playing the game, but they wouldn't make a dime from it. That's just bad business.
It starts with "A" and ends with "ctivision"Woodsey said:
Their "focus group" didn't give a shit about how terribad bnet currently is, they're representative of the entire gaming world and there's a defamation lawsuit waiting for you if you dare to suggest that's incredibly stupid.
Why did Blizzard become such greedy bastards after WoW? Mandatory BattleNet? No LAN? One campaign per game? Seriously people, you made truckloads of money with WoW just because you made a GOOD GAME. Try sticking to this instead of pissing off your customers with asshole policies.
SC2 might rise up in the few years, but 300million waste on the first expansion, most will probably wait for void, LAN n network might be a cause, but Blizzard should have cut that budget in half and invested in air lifting better internet if that was a problem.
StarCraft II's AI is far better.darkdots said:
And of course StarCraft 1's AI knew where your base was. They also used to do a 12 Zealot rush if they were toss. Now they can give you a 6 ling rush too. (SC1's current AI is a bit more advanced than what was found in the stock game).