SC2Mapster

In this topic you can say anything you want complaining the editor.

I say that:

• 1. Of course instability. For now i hope that will end in full release.
• 2. Bnet is damn slow, it`s like Bnet 1.0 but i was hopping for some effort of making it "click to do".
• 3. Icons are way too big. I enter my profile and there are like 20 bytes of useful data and a lot of big flashy icons.
• 4. Lobby is strange:
• a) every player was like 1/8 of screen. Small windows like in WC3 or SC:BW would do.
• b) countdown should be like HoN, you can leave all along the counting but it stops.
• c) ready icon would be nice
• 5. Colors of battlenet are really annoying, they shouldn't be so colorful
• 6. The title up the screen take a lot of place.
• 7. Achievement page is really messed up. Nothing to see.

• Friend system using real names and e-mail can be described by no other word than bad.
• Same with non-unique identifiers.
• Map publishing seems weak in it's current implementation.

Epic.
Fail.

I want wc3 bnet back.
All that I like is the ranking system and the party system.

The game itself is ABSOLUTELY AWESUM!!!
But bnet sux.

Quote from Sixen: Go

I think Bnet2 will be great. I just really dislike the fact that nobody can have a unique name.

Same. I don't think there's really anything wrong with B.net 2.0, except names, and inconsistency of the servers being online. My friends and I really dislike the lack of LAN support, but we know it's not coming back. :/

@AegisRunestone: Go

I agree with Sixen... although I will remark it's appearing more cluttered since I got in at March. LAN doesn't really matter... people can just sign in to their bnet account at peoples' houses. Hell, when I played war3 with friends we would go on Bnet anyway and play together... and now we can join custom games in parties instead of trying to wait for our friends to get in the same game.

Chat rooms, they need those.

To be honest, I prefer SC1 over WC3 b.net.

Quote from Eldrazor: Go

Epic. Fail.

I want wc3 bnet back. All that I like is the ranking system and the party system.

The game itself is ABSOLUTELY AWESUM!!! But bnet sux.

As the b.net 2.0 is now I understand you, but I promise the end product will ROCK! Blizzard have never failed my expectations and I doubt they will now!

This is just a terrible time to ask the question what I think about it, as I've been too busy raging about all the bugs and stuff. I'll give a legit answer when it's not buggy.

What I like

• The design is kind of nice. A little too childish but I like the artwork in the background.
  
• General idea of achiement and avatar system. Though nothing new.
  
• The IM-type of personal chat. I missed that a lot in Wc3.
  
• The leagues system works quite well, I think. I'm being matched vs enemies that lie within my capabilities to defeat.
  
• Delay seems to be better overall. Except of the recent problems.
  
• The censorship makes me laugh a lot >.<
  

What I dislike

• A lot of important information are missing. I have don't even know how to look up my overall win/loss ratio.
  
• They're dumbing down the achiements.. Team/Solo Beta Crusher was something to work for, but now every child can get them and feel like da King.
  
• Although they said they balance SC2 for progamers that definately doesn't apply to the Bnet UI. Too much fancy pictures and stuff nobody needs (see Facebook)
  
• I heard that leagues are now not numbered anymore but got stupid names like "Zergling Beta" or "Roach Epsilon"? Not sure if that's true but if it is...
  
• I would like to see a league ranking that tells me what rank I am in comparison to ALL players of my league.
  
• Custom game list is the horror. I feel like all the unknown but great custom maps will be drowned by more popular mainstream maps.
  
• Being unable to change gateways? Blizzard never heard of globalisation I guess. How am I supposed to play with my friends from oversea?
  

Quote from s3rius: Go

• They're dumbing down the achiements.. Team/Solo Beta Crusher was something to work for, but now every child can get them and feel like da King.
• Although they said they balance SC2 for progamers that definately doesn't apply to the Bnet UI. Too much fancy pictures and stuff nobody needs (see Facebook)

Blizzard goal is to open the game for everyone. If they had only focused on the elite they would have a limited success.

@vjeux: Go

They'd have less success, surely - but it'd still be a gold mine for them.

It's just that they contradict themselves. They've mentioned several times that they want to take-over the Esports scene and that they construct the Multiplayer for progamers.
Granted the BNet UI doesn't have much to do with the actual Multiplayer, but it's obvious it's directed more towards the casual gamers instead of the progaming scene with all this fancy schmancy eye candy and these incredibly-hard-to-get awards.

Yesterday I've stubled upon a post in the Blizzard Beta Forums where a silver league player got himself the Beta Crusher Award and was now glowing with happiness, thinking he achieved something great.
That's what Blizzard does to keep the casuals, but that's not what the better players want.

The hardest award right now is to win 50 games. 50 games? That's not even close to being hard. Even I - as a mediocre gamer - had more than 60 wins before the last stats wipe.
And what about the other things? 'Win 1 game' (I Win!), 'Win 2 games' (Lovin' the Beta), 'Win 3 games' (Streaking Duo/Solo), 'Win 5 games' (Race-dependend awards).
That's no awards, that's just fancy stuff for casuals.

Quote from s3rius: Go

@vjeux: Go

They'd have less success, surely - but it'd still be a gold mine for them.

It's just that they contradict themselves. They've mentioned several times that they want to take-over the Esports scene and that they construct the Multiplayer for progamers. Granted the BNet UI doesn't have much to do with the actual Multiplayer, but it's obvious it's directed more towards the casual gamers instead of the progaming scene with all this fancy schmancy eye candy and these incredibly-hard-to-get awards.

Yesterday I've stubled upon a post in the Blizzard Beta Forums where a silver league player got himself the Beta Crusher Award and was now glowing with happiness, thinking he achieved something great. That's what Blizzard does to keep the casuals, but that's not what the better players want.

The hardest award right now is to win 50 games. 50 games? That's not even close to being hard. Even I - as a mediocre gamer - had more than 60 wins before the last stats wipe. And what about the other things? 'Win 1 game' (I Win!), 'Win 2 games' (Lovin' the Beta), 'Win 3 games' (Streaking Duo/Solo), 'Win 5 games' (Race-dependend awards). That's no awards, that's just fancy stuff for casuals.

Truth.

Achievements are a plague upon games, in my opinion. I don't need a gauge to show off my e-peen. I agree with the whole "eye candy" business, it kind of hurts my eyes. I liked the grungy SC1 B.Net and the rainy WC3 B.Net. I'd have to say I preferred SC1's B.Net though. Everything was easily seen and readable, now I have icons and symbols and I still [I know, pathetic] have problems knowing what each one does. When I first got into beta I was completely lost on how to join a game or create one for that matter. It didn't occur to me to just press Multi-player. Also finding maps is simply ridiculous. I don't agree with the publishing idea at all and fun maps will be drowned out by newer popular maps. At least in SC1 I could still find a Golem game even after golems was pretty obscure and D games dominated the games list. Or that spell-caster game.

Lack of LAN is annoying, as well. My buddies do like to have LAN parties and the internet in our region is prone to LOLWTFDEAD for periods of time, randomly.

We have Facebook.... Why do we need Bnet 2? o_O dunno.... :P

Down with the Publishing System! Down with lobbies!

Facebook is stupidest thing/fail I even read/seen.

I dont know who's idea was that really. LoL...