Blizzard What are you doing?

I don't see their great achievement to be honest. It's an RTS with an online save feature and a somewhat unlocked number of players. Plus I can already see that it will look horrible by the time it releases (tbh it looks bad even by current standards) simply because of the compromise between graphics and the number of units on screen. My money's on it flopping, and not just because of the C&C link.

 

I don't think profit is a measure of whether something is a great achievement or not. It can be a great achievement to visit the moon, or climb Everest, but not particularly profitable.

If all you are willing to measure is graphics, popularity, and profit, then you blind yourself to the less visible, but more important technological strides, and the human factor of them doing what everyone thought was not possible.

 

Would I be a Starcraft fan if I only valued graphics? I just brought up one example because I didn't feel like making it a long post, but I could've mention balance as well as bandwidth requirements, as Kaaraa mentioned. And I don't know why you brought up profit as if I had mentioned it.

 

You talked expecting their game to flop and them getting nowhere in business. That is about popularity and profit.

 

I thought you were responding to my last post. Regarding profit, this is their job, and they need to sustain themselves and their families, so of course it's about profit. Anyone who does their job without interest in profit is plain silly or a previous lottery winner. If you look at it like this, the Everest and Moon examples are irrelevant because the former is a hobby and the latter involves very minor sacrifices of income and devotion, plus it's in hope of development. A game developer has nothing other than their game, so it's in their best interest to make it sell.

 

So it seems we do value achievement from different perspectives.

I celebrate people who make technological strides, and people who do what others believe is not possible.

 

It's hard to do that while starving to death.

 

But I am not starving to death, and neither are you. And neither are the developers of said mmorts. :laugh:

I'm celebrating their achievement kuvasz.

 

Im not going to lie to you, but its not that i dont appreciate the difficulties faced to engineer the game, its that the game just doesnt look good nor pleasing. Not to mention alot of people playing starcraft actually sat back and went, oh wow this game was engineered very nicely, i mean look at this code! I mean im not talking pure graphics either, im talking over all, it seems like one of those games that sounds good on paper, but not so much in the actuality of gameplay. I see no fun what so ever, having that big of a map, having to depend on that many people to know exactly how to play.

Its hard enough having 3 friends and using a random player for a 4v4, imagine by yourself with 30+X random people. Not fun, nor interesting. Scratch this one to the drawing board.

 

That looks awesome!Will probably demand a really good pc to play it though..