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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: karajorma on July 20, 2005, 01:11:49 pm

Title: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: karajorma on July 20, 2005, 01:11:49 pm

Clicky (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/13/02752/5668)

:D It's so true. :)

Title: Re: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: Rott3 on July 20, 2005, 01:37:52 pm

Yep. Blizzard really has to do something about the ammount of patches.

Title: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: General Freak on July 20, 2005, 02:03:14 pm

Hmm...well, Blizzard does make useful and non-stupid changes to their games.

The paragraph about using rooks and using Queen over bishop is just totally ...er...non-sensical. ;P

Title: Re: Re: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: IceFire on July 20, 2005, 03:14:14 pm

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Originally posted by Rott3
Yep. Blizzard really has to do something about the ammount of patches.

Nothing wrong with the number of patches.  

They have a VERY good system and WarCraft 3 really showed how much time and effort they were willing to spend to solve unit imbalances.  Part of the whole hit point, damage type, armor system was to make it easier to solve unit imbalances through monitoring B.Net games and whatnot to discover what was being overused and what was underused.

Probably the best balanced RTS game around despite having 4 races.

I'm glad that they support their products for years at a time. They know that continual support keeps communities alive.  Thats why StarCraft continues to be one of the most popular RTS games around despite the fact that its now several years old.  Its a cash cow really...with so much popularity over a product several years later, think of how much of a built in audience Blizzard has for the next big RTS game (particularly if its StarCraft).

Title: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: Rott3 on July 20, 2005, 03:24:20 pm

Wow... I didn't know that the use Battle.Net games to balance. They are dedicated.

You know what. I'll take it all back. Make as many patches as you want. It's better than having no patches.

I have been enlightened.
And yeah, StarCraft owns.

Title: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: Anaz on July 20, 2005, 03:33:44 pm

Yup. Bliz rules for supporting games long after they've stopped making money off of them (for the most part).

Title: If Blizzard had invented Chess
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 21, 2005, 02:16:31 pm

You can still buy Starcraft, and I see people do it down at Fry's Electronics all the time...