So, how does the custom game system work? Is popularity based on how many players are playing that map at the moment, or how popular it is overall? If I understood it correctly, there is no hosting list anymore, but rather a list of maps uploaded unto battlenet, sorted by popularity. By selecting a map, the game sort of matchmakes you into someone who is hosting a game, alternatively if no games are hosted it will make you host a game. Is this the way it's going to be handled, or does anyone know if it's a temporary solution? I can see some problems with the system as it is, the main concern being that less popular maps will be harder to find games for. Of course, DOTA occupied large swaths of the host list in WC3 battlenet, but by sitting around and refreshing, you could find a few new games you hadn't played before, and the name/map sounded interesting, so you tried it out. In the current system, you scroll through the list, perhaps find something new and interesting at the bottom, start up a game, only to sit around in the lobby never getting any players, because nobody knows someone is hosting a game of that type, how will they ever be able to join it? The second big problem I'm seein is that, after a few months of retail, the list will become HUGE. Remember all the old SC1 and WC3 maps you could find on websites, the lists were hundreds of pages long! How will you ever be able to find something good like this?
really? no hosting custom games? that's nuts! how do i play a custom map with friends? to be honest, combined with the lack of LAN and chatrooms, it seems like Blizz is trying to promote the battle.net gaming too much and forgetting that a lot of people have a real-life community that visits b.net as a group.
asdf: You can host custom games, but the list of maps when joining a public game show all available maps ordered by popularity. This means, if you're the only one with a lobby open for a specific map, you'll be fairly low on the list of available games. You can create a party with your bnet friends, and host a custom map that way. This will essentially emulate LAN play, except you need to be online and logged on to bnet.
ordering maps by popularity will pretty much mean that the first 10 pages will be DOTA v1, v1.1, v1.2, v2 beta, v2 FINAL, v2.1.... and then TOWER DEFENSE TOWER DEFENSE TOWER DEFENSE. and any new map or original concept will be at the very back. among all the crap that is actually bad. that's a horrible system.
Not only that, I am wondering whether or not there is a filter system for which games can be uploaded onto the server. Some custom maps may have offensive content, but they shouldnt be discriminated against. In WC3 it was like a wildcard, but this new system is more atune with cloud computing and I fear it can be restrictive to expressions of the consumer (not the company). Based on my reading, it appears that they implemented this system so that map makers would get credit for their work. Honestly I never thought that was a problem in WC3, but here we see a host of new problems because of the way this is set up (including the mentionings in the posts above).
ya i tried to play a game that wasn't in the top 20 and i waited for like 5mins and nobody joined so i am pretty much being forced to play the popular maps. i have been playing the same 5 maps because of this sigh back to wc3. i still can't believe it took them like 7 yrs of work on battle net and it is like 3 steps back. also this is offtopic but how come there is not a forum for sc2 on battlenet forums?
Yeah that "7 years" that went into battle.net is bull****. They just threw it together and changed some things so they could charge subscriptions in certain countries. As for the horrible custom game options, its probably meant to reduce the load on the servers because of their poor design. But for your offtopic: the battle.net SCII forums moved here: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/
Well thats just too bad but Blizzard does a great job of making games, they just screw up certain things usually with online play. Battle.net worked fine back in the day, although it might be a little outdated nowdays. Hopefully they fix it up since online play is what makes SC2 last for years as opposed to months.
Simply a Fail After playing SC1 and WC3 i had some extremely high hopes for SC2, as im sure many people had, and we weren't let down, the game play is ridiculous and really fun. And aside from that it even had the potential to be so much more through player made maps, which always were the best. ALWAYS. Now that there fail of money making system on maps has destroyed that potential to be made realistic to users, it has crushed what the game could and should have been. Although this is by far the worst thing that could have happened, it can be fixed. Yes worse than the game play being ****, because then at least we wouldn't be wasting our time looking for a solution. That is why Blizzard should be given a 2 month grace period in which to implement a B.net system such as WC3, which was fine with VERY MINOR problems. Even a SC1 would do fine. Suffice it to say Blizzard literally holds the balance of SC2 from being another AoE, to a legend. With their great riches found in WoW, i find it highly unlikely they will change much, due to the fact that they "utilize a full staff to sort through inappropriate content in player made maps," someone has to pay for it, and why not buy maps from other players, and give blizzard a cut in it. And there ya have it another money making scheme destroying a perfectly GREAT game. as of now. FIX THIS BLIZZARD! thats my anger rant take from it what u like
