That i heard a lot. Hmm, i guess i just wait for all three games to be released and available as a typical GotY edition, all inclusive.

JohnBirshire wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 10:15:
Yes because the single player campaign is the most over-rated I've played in ten years. Boring and cliched is the only thing that came to mind while I was playing through it.

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 09:45:

Verno wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 09:04:
Some of us don't give two shits about e-sports or lan capability, sorry. Your product standards don't dictate what games I purchase.

Sounds like he's not talking about you then, since he specifically referred to the e-sport community. If you don't care about e-sport then it's a non-issue for you. No need to get your back up about it.

007Bistromath wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 08:23:
How does this game manage to have a serious "e-sport" community if it has no LAN capability?

Oh, right. People are stupid and will buy goddamn anything. *headsmack*

Verno wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 09:04:
Some of us don't give two shits about e-sports or lan capability, sorry. Your product standards don't dictate what games I purchase.

D_K_night wrote on Sep 26, 2010, 23:55:

It caters to spammers, trolls, and name callers who don't actually do anything useful with the channels to setup games and do things that are actually productive. Think about how many gold sellers are going to abuse it.

Bottom line, if you're there just to play custom games - the mechanisms are already there for you to do that. If you're there to ladder up - well, it's there. Chat channels are just a fluff piece to kill time between games if you care about that.

But of course the Blizzard haters pop out of the woodwork. Must be in style to bash on the big guy, once all the news about crap like Elemental and APB get boring.

Pigeon wrote on Sep 27, 2010, 01:39:
How about they actually fix offline mode, instead of saying its fixed while a forum full of people say they still can't play offline. "Don't worry you'll hardly even know there's DRM :D".

DRM hate aside I've mostly been enjoying the campaign, I know some people don't like the new style, but I think its more immersive. I still would have liked to see terran zerg and protoss perspectives in the same game (though you do get a little protoss), but this is still good.

I don't play PvP much, but I have to agree about the zerg. First off I've noticed you pretty much have to zergling rush, if for no other reason than to just slow your opponent down. I've tried playing defensively, trying to build up more variety of troops, and it's just not working for me. I also thought their tech tree was a little more complicated, there seemed to be more dependents than the other trees.

to spammers, trolls, and name callers who don't actually do anything

Verno wrote on Sep 26, 2010, 20:48:
Yeah, that's been a common complaint. Battle.net 2.0 feels very lifeless, there's no sense of actually being in a community of thousands of other players. Websites like this one can't make a chat room on b.net for people to congregate in and setup matches. Having everything through the Friends list is silly and the Facebook crap turned out to be a bust anyways.

That's why they're adding chat rooms back in, frankly it made little sense to remove them anyways as resource-wise they aren't intensive or costly in the slightest.

The custom maps list needs to be looked at too, the paged functionality is annoying in its current implementation. I don't want to have to click show more 100 times to see the list, just let me have a checkbox that says "auto-expand on refresh" or something. Better yet, build an interface that isn't hard coded to suit people running the game at 800x600.