Bill Smauz
8 Jun 2010, 09:06pm
Ever since the Starcraft 2 Beta came out fans, both of Blizzard and of RTS games, have been psyched. However as the Beta continued fans of the old Starcraft: BroodWar and of Blizzard have created a turmoil amongst the Blizzard community as fans rage on about Battlenet 2.0. Can Starcraft, being one of the best and biggest RTS games of all time, have the potential to fail?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r_uCaFxg8
Information about BNET 2.0 further explained in this video (Warning: May contain cute kittens).
-Battlenet 2.0 has its pro's and con's but some argue that its con's outweigh its pro's. For example, there is no longer any LAN connection and every connection must be through battlenet. Which means that you will need to buy multiple copies of the game in order to play with your friends. This creates a disturbance amongst old Starcraft fans who argue that LAN was the reason why BroodWar was awesome because of LAN parties, but with Starcraft 2 that is not the case.
-There are currently no Chat Channels and there is no further information that Blizzard will be implementing them. Although Starcraft's Chat channels mostly consisted of spammers, it was a nice way to meet and chat with people about clan's and strategies.
-Game names. In BNET 2.0 all you have to do is select which map you want you play and the game will automatically find a lobby of the map you want to play. Now this is something I actually like, it was annoying to not be able to play the maps you wanted to before in Starcraft but it also has its negatives. For example, if you wanted to play the map a certain way (example which is used is a No Rush game) then you can't say in your game title that you want no rushing.
-Activision being part of Blizzard's team. I recently just learned that Activision is mutually working with Blizzard on Starcraft 2 which sets some Blizzard fans in paranoia and anger. This is because they believe that Activision will ruin Starcraft's franchise by only caring about the money the game produces rather than the quality. Blizzard's reputation with its fans have been well noted because of how long BroodWar survived and members are afraid that Activison will ruin Blizzard's reputation.
Well these are just some of the reasons why Blizzard fans are raging right now. Please feel free to discuss. Make sure to watch the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-r_uCaFxg8
Information about BNET 2.0 further explained in this video (Warning: May contain cute kittens).
-Battlenet 2.0 has its pro's and con's but some argue that its con's outweigh its pro's. For example, there is no longer any LAN connection and every connection must be through battlenet. Which means that you will need to buy multiple copies of the game in order to play with your friends. This creates a disturbance amongst old Starcraft fans who argue that LAN was the reason why BroodWar was awesome because of LAN parties, but with Starcraft 2 that is not the case.
-There are currently no Chat Channels and there is no further information that Blizzard will be implementing them. Although Starcraft's Chat channels mostly consisted of spammers, it was a nice way to meet and chat with people about clan's and strategies.
-Game names. In BNET 2.0 all you have to do is select which map you want you play and the game will automatically find a lobby of the map you want to play. Now this is something I actually like, it was annoying to not be able to play the maps you wanted to before in Starcraft but it also has its negatives. For example, if you wanted to play the map a certain way (example which is used is a No Rush game) then you can't say in your game title that you want no rushing.
-Activision being part of Blizzard's team. I recently just learned that Activision is mutually working with Blizzard on Starcraft 2 which sets some Blizzard fans in paranoia and anger. This is because they believe that Activision will ruin Starcraft's franchise by only caring about the money the game produces rather than the quality. Blizzard's reputation with its fans have been well noted because of how long BroodWar survived and members are afraid that Activison will ruin Blizzard's reputation.
Well these are just some of the reasons why Blizzard fans are raging right now. Please feel free to discuss. Make sure to watch the video.