What are the issues with the new custom mapping? I still haven't played, but I heard (a very long time ago) that they were thinking of charging a subscription fee for some of the very popular ones. I don't know if that's true or not anymore, though if it is, that's a no-buy for me, because I don't have enough money to waste it on DoTA updates.
you're given 5 slots to share custom maps. You're limited to 25 meg total storage, and a maximum of 10 megs per map. The mapping tools are apparently full of ridiculous word filters, even in the code, so you can't say words like "blow" ANYWHERE while making a map "go blow that up" is disallowed. You also can't name your match, so it just goes off the mapname apparently. And because it's listed in order of popularity in the game browser you get chutneys issue of having difficulty to find the map you want.
Reading articles? I own the game and actually play it. As in, have looked at the features firsthand to see what's actually there...
Which leads us back to the point I made, of the complaints being from people who haven't purchased it to make a decision about the game they haven't played. And like I said, the issues that everyone touts as being game-breakers don't affect me. Not sure where the failure to communicate here is.
If you're in a rural area and don't have internet stability, lack of LAN support might be a deal breaker. I understand that. I never used it, so I don't miss it. Region lock? I don't play with friends overseas, because I don't have any. Doesn't affect me. If the fact that every other game the company has made has undergone improvements over its lifetime doesn't indicate that the current one will, then the concept of previous behavior indicating future performance clearly escapes people. There's nothing I can really say to explain that concept if it's difficult to grasp.
I have spent more money on DVD's that I'll never watch again than I spent on this game that I'll be playing for years. In simple terms of entertainment value, it's a good purchase.
As for the map system, that was the potential deal-breaker for me. However... the folks at the map-making site that I frequent (dedicated hobbysists, who use the system extensively) don't consider it unusable or a reason not to buy the game. If it's workable by the ones who are using it daily, it's good enough for me.
The campaign alone is worth at least $40 of the price to me, the rest far exceeds the $20 I'd spend on fast food or lame movies in the next several months. *shrug*
You keep mentioning that you've played the game... good job. So have I.
And i understand your point compeltely. You're saying "yeah the game has problems, but they don't affect me personally, so they don't matter to anyone anywhere and only people who have bought the game can criticise the game even though i recommened pirating in my previous posts." As has allready been posted in articles that you don't want to read because you play the game, there are plenty of prominent mappers who think this system is ridiculous. I never said it was universally hated by everyone who's ever used a computer, just that many people find it useless. Again, just because you personally don't find it to be an issue doesn't mean noone else does.
My point, which you don't seem to be getting, is that just because no LAN, region locking, and all the other issues don't bother you, they're still big points of contention for huge amounts of people.
If the idea that after a company has been bought out by another company their behaviour might change (as it allready has) is completely foreign to you then theres nothing i can really say to explain it any more clearly. I guess it's just difficult to grasp.
Noone cares how much money you have spent on things, or how much entertainment they got you. I've spent more on a nights drinking than this game costs, see that? How you don't care? That's because it's no relevance to the topic at hand. Value is subjective anyway, for everyone who finds starcraft 2 better than those dvds you bought there will be someone who disagrees completely.
This is the fundamental difference between what you and I am saying. I'm saying I think the game has some problems, and those problems to me are a dealbreaker. This is a thread for people to talk about the game, so I'm talking about those problems. you're saying noone is allowed to complain about the game because you personally don't have a problem with anything. And also those things might possibly be fixed in the future because that's what they used to do before Activision bought them. Activision being the company that unabashedly says at every available opportunity they want to run their buisness in the exact oppoiste way Blizzard used to run theirs.
So I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'll keep telling people my opinion and you can keep telling people that they have to buy the game (that you told them to pirate) before they can comment on it.