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[Astral]

Another article that details the laments people are going through because of Blizzard (this one's fairly recent)

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/starcraft-2-the-latest-game-to-control-user-created-content.ars

I've gotten tired of Starcraft 2 after tromping through the campaign. Ladder doesn't hold that much appeal to me (it never did; custom mapping was always my thing), and Battle.net 2.0 just doesn't have the same oomph to it (or the same addiction level to it) that the original did. ActiBlizzard just put the people who keep their game replayable and fun into a bad position (not that they care, they already have my money); I don't see DotA becoming a big hit, or anything else that isn't a 10 minute casualfest for that matter.

I mostly played Zerg, albeit badly, so I might have fared better with Terran (managed to "perfect" a marine rush back in the original Starcraft, non-competitive pubs).

I've pretty much transitioned back to playing Warcraft 3, and I wouldn't be surprised if more people came back to it after the things Blizzard's pulled.

[ECrownofFire]

Really it's all Blizzard's fault for just hosting the maps in the first place. If they didn't host the maps, they wouldn't have much control over the content of maps, but they wouldn't be able to be held liable for it. The reason they do this is not only because they can, but because they have to or their precious little Teen rating will be bumped up to Mature.

[LordBucket]

we got no problems with murder and genocide!
But, we do have problems with sexual material!

Even that's changed though. Diablo 1 had rooms with female corpses impaled on spikes in a "bent over for easy access" position. Warcraft draenei used to have a joke emote that speculated whether gnomes had a vibrate option. I vaguelly remember there being a casual mention of rape during the orc campaigns of one of the original warcraft games. Blizzard has traditionally been non-politically correct to the point that I personally assumed they were doing it deliberately to thumb their noses at the gaming industry, and sexual content has appeared in their games since pretty much the beginning.

But Blizzard no longer exists. Activision does.

[kilakan]

waiiiiit when did activision take over blizzard.... i hate activision.

[Astral]

waiiiiit when did activision take over blizzard.... i hate activision, bloody neo-nazi do-gooders....

The deal closed July 9, 2008. The company believed that the merging of the two companies would create "the world’s largest and most profitable pure-play video game publisher".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard

[G-Flex]

neo-nazi do-gooders....

Wait. What?

[kilakan]

neo-nazi do-gooders....

Wait. What?

watcha talking about?

[Beardless]

neo-nazi do-gooders....

Wait. What?

watcha talking about?

Precisely.

More helpfully: Most people do not associate "neo-nazi" with "do-gooder", except as antonyms. I am no fan of Activision (and more and more, Blizzard as well), but I have to admit I have no idea how either of those terms apply. Could you please explain?

As long as I'm here I may as well ask my questions. I'm a huge Starcraft fan, so I want to play the campaign. But I'm NOT a fan of giving control up to faceless corporations. Particularly when they're partnered with Facebook. Just how pervasive is this "Facebook integration" I keep hearing about?

(Don't know why I bother asking, I'm not going to be able to afford a computer that can run it for a few years anyway. *grumblemumble*)

[kcwong]

Really it's all Blizzard's fault for just hosting the maps in the first place. If they didn't host the maps, they wouldn't have much control over the content of maps, but they wouldn't be able to be held liable for it. The reason they do this is not only because they can, but because they have to or their precious little Teen rating will be bumped up to Mature.

That's a side effect of Blizzard removing LAN and locking people into Battle.Net.


See Blizzard? Give us back our LAN games!

[Bandages]

Okay, I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Zerg are pretty cool.

[kcwong]

It takes a lot of clicking to play though. There's always some larvae and creep spores waiting!

[Bandages]

But I just love having five infestors burrowed outside an enemy base, sending in 20 ranged units every few minutes.

[Whiskey mcgin]

Ps: As a terran, I myself HATE mutalisk rushing, sometimes it's quite devastating if I didnt scout properly. .
But I love when the Zerg goes for roaches, nothing screams *easy victory* louder than that. ^^

[DJ]

Does anyone actually use mercenaries in the campaign? They seem like a huge waste of credits to me. You get a lot more mileage from regular unit upgrades.

[Whiskey mcgin]

Yeahh.. Even that I bought all of them, I never actually used them. :/.