Some more Bnet Q&A

Lombar · Oct 30, 2008

Q: How are you hoping to advance community building in the upcoming revamped Battle.net?

Frank Pearce: That's going to be a big challenge for us. It's something we've got to figure out and we definitely have an ambitious feature set plan in store for the Battle.net launch with StarCraft II. Definitely improved friends list, improved functionality for groups, whether that's clans or guilds, better chat functionality, voice over IP, anything we can do. Some of it's going to depend on how ambitious the feature is, whether we can get it in conjunction with StarCraft II or if it has to come out at a later date. We'll see what we can do.

Q: Have you looked at what other RTS titles have done, such as Command & Conquer 3's video chat function?

Frank Pearce: I haven't had a chance to look at that myself yet but we've got guys on the StarCraft II team that play other RTS's pretty regularly. They have a library of RTS games in the dev team they're in, so we look at all that stuff and take inspiration where it makes sense.

Q: How do you intend to make Battle.net the hub for e-sports, considering a number of contenders that have taken the lead since its launch?

Frank Pearce: We'll take a look at the ladder system and the ranking system and see how we can improve that. Better support for leagues, whether they're Blizzard leagues or third-party leagues, better support for play-by-play commentary, better support for replays. In Warcraft III the replays function wasn't something we contemplated from the beginning, whereas in StarCraft II, seeing how critical that was for e-spot in Warcraft III, we definitely put that in form day one.
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Source : http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/blizzard-s-frank-pearce_4

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