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yes that means it's the worst game in the world. fucking lol. pc gamers are something else.After reading up on latest developments on Starcraft 2, it's now in the running for 'Worst Game of 2010' in my list, together with all of Ubisoft's DRM crap.
1) No LAN -> can live with that
2) Region lock -> stupid, annoying, but can live with that
3) No clan channels -> WTF?????
4) Southeast Asia version costs 109 Singapore dollars (US$78) -> And I thought Modern Failure 2 was terrible. With $78 I bought both Left 4 Dead games, TF2 and still had spare change to boot.
Thats it, I'm fucking boycotting Blizzard now. Paying more for less with heavy restrictions is always a 0/10 in my book.
After reading up on latest developments on Starcraft 2, it's now in the running for 'Worst Game of 2010' in my list, together with all of Ubisoft's DRM crap.
1) No LAN -> can live with that
2) Region lock -> stupid, annoying, but can live with that
3) No clan channels -> WTF?????
4) Southeast Asia version costs 109 Singapore dollars (US$78) -> And I thought Modern Failure 2 was terrible. With $78 I bought both Left 4 Dead games, TF2 and still had spare change to boot.
Thats it, I'm fucking boycotting Blizzard now. Paying more for less with heavy restrictions is always a 0/10 in my book.
After reading up on latest developments on Starcraft 2, it's now in the running for 'Worst Game of 2010' in my list, together with all of Ubisoft's DRM crap.
1) No LAN -> can live with that
2) Region lock -> stupid, annoying, but can live with that
3) No clan channels -> WTF?????
4) Southeast Asia version costs 109 Singapore dollars (US$78) -> And I thought Modern Failure 2 was terrible. With $78 I bought both Left 4 Dead games, TF2 and still had spare change to boot.
Thats it, I'm fucking boycotting Blizzard now. Paying more for less with heavy restrictions is always a 0/10 in my book.
looking for a relatively mid-high level diamond terran player to practice my ZvT matchup. PM and i'll send you my email and we can get some customs in.
-No LAN kinda sucks, but just for LAN tournaments. 99% of the time it won't affect a thing (even for competitive players). Most tournaments are organized through B.net anyway, so that the players don't have to travel. So I agree there. It kind of sucks, but isn't that bad.
-Region lock is also not great. They wanted to keep people regional to lower the lag I suppose, but it didn't seem to be a huge problem in SC1 or WC3 though, and you could play cross regional on b.net 1.0. You just had to select that server. That alone seemed to be a good enough deterrent, but maybe they know something I don't. That said, if you want to play cross regional, you can use BattlePing. Works pretty well and all but negates the lag issue too. Of course it would be nice if we didn't have to use a work around, but since it lessens ping as well as allowing you to play cross regional, I guess it's not that bad.
-Chat Channels. I agree. It made organizing games and interacting with other clans/groups incredibly easy. Myself and a group of my friends would intermingle with 2 or 3 established clans all the time. All we had to do was enter their chat and we could organize practice games or do us vs them games etc, no fuss, no muss. They were very useful for clan matches as well. The party chat in B.net 2.0 just doesn't have the same usability. It is much more difficult to do things on the fly or organize any kind of tournament as it is right now.
-SE Asia cost. Dunno. Maybe there's some kind of tariff they are enforcing now, or maybe they know that Koreans are SUPER into Starcraft and wanted to gouge them. I don't know.
Now, after all that, Starcraft isn't lacking at all. The game is great. It's fun, challenging and looks fantastic (while not being a resource hog... other than using over a gig of ram). The shortcomings are all on the B.net side, not in the game play. It'd be like calling Counter Strike a terrible game because Steam didn't have a few features you want. The game is fine, it's the online service that is lacking. Of course, you really can't have one without the other, but it's still unfair to call the game bad when none of the problems you listed have anything to do with game play.
Just saying.
Chat channels are actually coming later.
Also can someone tell me how big their Starcraft II Beta folder is in size for them right now? I'm going on 11.5 GBs
Did anyone's placement matches reset a few days ago, and now it's not updating? My 2v2 keeps saying I have 4 placement matches left despite playing 5 last night.
-Incorrect. In order to play on multiple realms people will need to buy multiple copies of the game and lock it to each region.
Please tell me this is not true, occasionally I play on the Asia servers for WC3 FT
Yes it's true. Husky mentioned it in his video... he plays with people from literally every realm, so in order to play with all his friends he'd have to spend hundreds of dollars.
Did anyone's placement matches reset a few days ago, and now it's not updating? My 2v2 keeps saying I have 4 placement matches left despite playing 5 last night.
His google checks will make up for it
Edit: Nvm battle.net is still down. sooooo lame.
The popular YouTube partners make like $1,000 - 2,000 a month.How much does he make from his traffic on youtube?
My 4v4 team with friends went 3-2 and we were placed in Bronze league. The lowest league with 3-2 placement matches? Something seems fishy here.
Sounds about right, 5-0 puts you into platinum and forces you to play to get into diamond