But why dont' we just step back and look at the Pros and Cons of these things?
PROS
- To win over the handful of parents who actually read the ESRB will somehow think SC2 is now more safe for their kids, and will base their decision on this to buy the game... despite all the glorified hype the game already had for 2 years.
- Jack Thompson Safe (not)
- No Bots
- No Spam
- No need to spend money for people to regulate chat channels (tho they don't do it anyway)
- Hardcore gamers now have a nice league to grow their penises on.
- Facebook integration... just so you can shoot the guy that beat you last game.
- Limitations able to sucker people in to pay for things that was free and working beautifully TWELVE years ago.. like they're already doing with Name Change. Is THIS the "crazy-new-spin-to-everything" they were pushing? Saw this coming MILES away.
- Already have 2 more expansions planned, and if this game fails hard, they can fix everything by the next game, and make people buy them. Smart.
CONS
- SC1 Fans not buying the game
- Many SC1 fans losing faith with Blizzard.
- Losing the standard as to the "best" online community system
- Losing to its own predecessor... again.. 12 years ago.
- Internet cafes and other computer game companies cannot set up a SC2 network, since each player has to have a SC2 account before being able to play.
- They also would require an adequate to strong internet connection.
- People with 2 or more computers at home can't invite friends to come and play.
- No Chat Channels = No Fun Chatting with random strangers = No cool encounters = 1/2 the starcraft experience gone.
- Starcraft 2 will now last just as long as any other console games.... because once the single player portion is done, the multiplayer will not hold up to expectations, get boring, and be neglected. All because of no chat channels, and partly because of the awful custom map popularity system.
- People will now NOT sit in the game they can talk about starcraft with each other...
- This completely and utterly alienates casual gamers.
- No way to discuss and just chat about anything with online gamers. Let's get this straight. We're doing this on YOUR server. It is helping YOUR business. We're helping YOU look good.
- New systems do not facilitate friend-making better than b.net 1 12 years ago...
- SC2 fans will soon realize how narrow-minded sc2 in terms of game types is and stop playing, like one of my friends ALREADY.
- Can't do maps with rap songs
- Can't cuss in anyway, altho 99% of good games have cusses.
- Can't publish maps with "Suicide"
- Can't even say normal stuffs like "Transports"
- No more Dodge the Rapists.
- Probert the probe... probly the most innocent movie map I've ever seen, was removed since there's a "sex scene".... Seriously guys... google porn for once. I doubt anyone would get offended/aroused by units pushing each other.
- There's nothing sexy or offending about a Medic walking against a marine. Nothing even offending about it. I think we can all agree that the medic's actual Voice is more offending than anything else due to its over-feminist
- Hiring excalibur's to do their evil biddings in removing genuinely fun
postsMaps. This costs money, and time. - Taking programmers times to patch up all the new cracks and other stuffs that people will eventually create since the original game is so constricting.
- Lose money to private servers.. which will inevitably be created since b.net 2 is shit and can't even provide the same fun as its predecesor... TWELVE YEARS LATER
- B.net 1 > B.net 2 in every single motherfucking way except for aesthetics and leagues.
- Still 5 map publishing limit. What if there're 10 probert the probe episodes? Welcome to B.fucked.net 2.
- Game Server can't even support the stuff its own editor can make it do. All because they want to control everything.
- You cannot use the editor if you are offline.
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Anything else to add?
I'll make a long list, remove all the cusses, and send it out to everything..
It'd be nice to actually have some thoughtful pros/cons too.. except i'm too raged right now to think.
Saying that these people do not like change just because they're conservative is completely irrelevant and partly stupid. If the changes were good, then this thread would not exist. Give me a fucking break. We all know B.net 2 has problems. Hoping that blizzard will fix it or saying that it will be fixed or that it is in its prematurity PURELY INEXCUSABLE.
If you want to compare, there's no reason to make the game "mediocre" just so a HANDFUL of people who actually gives a shit about the ESRB/Offensive Maps would buy the game. Moreover, (i should add this to the list), the game will fail to get new gamers into creating more content for SC2, just because the current system is complete BS.
I want to argue that everything that they're doing right now is HORRIBLY REDUNDANT, and that there's no reason why they would work so hard and do so much just to limit the freedom for the 30,000 12-year-long fans.
I want to argue that everything that they're doing right now is HORRIBLY REDUNDANT, and that there's no reason why they would work so hard and do so much just to limit the freedom for the 30,000 12-year-long fans.
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Aug 18 2010, 11:03 pm by UnholyUrine.
None.