Tofu was never finished, simple as that. There are many flaws that we wanted to address but we had to walk away.
I disagree. I think Tofu was "too finished".
One thing that I've taken away from modding for StarCraft is that games need to be developed by more than just the map author.
Good maps tend to start off very simplistic, but with a core addictive quality that is built upon over time. The community learns the map step by step as it's developed.
Tofu was different, though. It did not start off as a simplistic but addictive map. It started off as a complete package, and expected the community to learn it all in one go. As such, it went the way of many large projects.
To be honest, people like him are annoying me alot, and Im not an easy guy to annoy. As it stands now, the Battle.Net 2.0 is a pretty good platform for custom maps - even I can get my extremly niche maps played on a day to day basis without any problem and receive good and usefull feedback. If you go in with the expectation to make money, then the jokes on you. Thats also the reason why its not a waste of time of making maps/mods for SC2. You make mods/maps to have fun with them and to share it with people - not to make money with them. Making money with any kind of mod is a rare thing in itself and yet you and dogmai blame Blizzard for not beeing able to do it with an editor as simple as SC2. If Dogmai wants money so bad, I advise him to get a skillset that goes beyond mapping for SC2 and program his own real game - him and other people on this forum going around here discouraging people from doing cool map projects is just disgusting to watch.
I like battle.net as an arcade platform, but it really does depend what you are comparing it to.
XBLA and the iphone shop should be Blizzard's goal. I'm not saying they'll reach it, but those are examples of successful arcades.
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Just out of curiosity, what major updates to the arcade do you think should be made?
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I disagree. I think Tofu was "too finished".
One thing that I've taken away from modding for StarCraft is that games need to be developed by more than just the map author.
Good maps tend to start off very simplistic, but with a core addictive quality that is built upon over time. The community learns the map step by step as it's developed.
Tofu was different, though. It did not start off as a simplistic but addictive map. It started off as a complete package, and expected the community to learn it all in one go. As such, it went the way of many large projects.
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I like battle.net as an arcade platform, but it really does depend what you are comparing it to.
XBLA and the iphone shop should be Blizzard's goal. I'm not saying they'll reach it, but those are examples of successful arcades.