What are you talking about? I'm saying that your screenshot is no different than what we have now, aside from showing the lobbies. Showing the lobbies makes no difference if you still have to walk through the entire list of popular maps to find the map you'd like to play.
I wish people on this forum would actually learn to think like a designer or developer before complaining like idiots. Everyone here is just really inept and their suggestions are terrible. It's obvious why Blizzard listens to none of you. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about or how to design features for a UI or a game.
That's not a simple fix. It still has the maps in the same order as they are now. It doesn't actually change anything. The same popular maps are still shown in the same order. Showing their lobbies in the manner of that screenshot makes no difference.
They just need a more robust system for sorting and searching for maps, so that players can decide what they want to play before they even see the list of maps, instead of decide what they want to play based on the list that is shown to them.
I'm not sure how it matters if Blizzard bumps their own maps. If I knew nothing about map circulation, I'd like to be able to easily see mods created directly by Blizzard. Maybe there's a button for this, who cares.
Second, I assumed this would be a thread about Blizzard implementing something similar to Adsense in custom maps. Since it's not, well, then who cares. Gosh. The over-sensationalized title just screams "give me attention".
I don't see any problem with this. The size of the gaming market isn't relatively large (compared to movies and TV).
It's hard to design a game with a large budget and get back the cost. And then get free updates (which D2 got for a decade).
Getting a little bit of money from player transactions is a great solution for this. They're not even trying to sell us stupid DLC. They're letting the players decide the prices and sell the items.
Something like this might make big budget games more worth it, even if the game doesn't sell as many copies.
Don't you ever stop and think about how Blizzard can afford to update their games 10 years after their release? Doesn't it amaze you at all? This is a good thing. The more continuous income they get, the better their games will be.
If any type of game can get income continuously without forcing the players to purchase directly from the developer, it is a good thing. This will make other models besides worthless DLC and forced constraints on items worth it for publishers.
I think it's stupid for people to speculate about Blizzard's greed affecting the gameplay. It's never the case that such happens.
They might make the game annoying (no LAN, always online, one account, etc), but they're not going to change the game itself.
What's more worrying is them streamlining the game to attract a larger audience. Toning down the graphics to attract a larger audience with cheaper PC's.
My favorite part of the first game was that any type of character could wear any type of armor. But to me, Diablo 2 was a stream-lined version of Diablo 1.
I much more enjoyed the fact that any character could use any spell as long as they dropped for you. That was much more interesting to me than the skill trees.
Who cares if you can sell items if the graphics are dated and the game-play is dumbed-down?
I personally am a hoarder, so I couldn't possibly comprehend selling anything I ever pick up, ever. I don't care if it's worth even $5 real American bucks I ain't sellin' it.
The point is what I said as my first point that is.
It took me forever to figure out that my Mage in WoW couldn't wear plate when I first tried the game. I just assumed I'd be able to use it eventually because the only similar game I played before it was Diablo 2.
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@malkavianVision: Go
What are you talking about? I'm saying that your screenshot is no different than what we have now, aside from showing the lobbies. Showing the lobbies makes no difference if you still have to walk through the entire list of popular maps to find the map you'd like to play.
I wish people on this forum would actually learn to think like a designer or developer before complaining like idiots. Everyone here is just really inept and their suggestions are terrible. It's obvious why Blizzard listens to none of you. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about or how to design features for a UI or a game.
@sandround: Go
That list was also not brilliant.
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@malkavianVision: Go
That's not a simple fix. It still has the maps in the same order as they are now. It doesn't actually change anything. The same popular maps are still shown in the same order. Showing their lobbies in the manner of that screenshot makes no difference.
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They just need a more robust system for sorting and searching for maps, so that players can decide what they want to play before they even see the list of maps, instead of decide what they want to play based on the list that is shown to them.
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This system is better.
It just needs more work (which unfortunately they have continued to not do).
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@deleted_4934777: Go
You're making blind assumptions. You shouldn't do that.
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@Tolkfan: Go
If a machine can produce it, a machine can interpret it.
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I'm not sure how it matters if Blizzard bumps their own maps. If I knew nothing about map circulation, I'd like to be able to easily see mods created directly by Blizzard. Maybe there's a button for this, who cares.
Second, I assumed this would be a thread about Blizzard implementing something similar to Adsense in custom maps. Since it's not, well, then who cares. Gosh. The over-sensationalized title just screams "give me attention".
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Are you sure you're not confusing "botting" with "standing around doing nothing"?
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I don't see any problem with this. The size of the gaming market isn't relatively large (compared to movies and TV).
It's hard to design a game with a large budget and get back the cost. And then get free updates (which D2 got for a decade).
Getting a little bit of money from player transactions is a great solution for this. They're not even trying to sell us stupid DLC. They're letting the players decide the prices and sell the items.
Something like this might make big budget games more worth it, even if the game doesn't sell as many copies.
Don't you ever stop and think about how Blizzard can afford to update their games 10 years after their release? Doesn't it amaze you at all? This is a good thing. The more continuous income they get, the better their games will be.
If any type of game can get income continuously without forcing the players to purchase directly from the developer, it is a good thing. This will make other models besides worthless DLC and forced constraints on items worth it for publishers.
This is a good thing. Stop complaining. Please.
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Can you give a more specific description of what the crash is. When it crashes. So I don't have to read through every single line guessing.
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@grenegg: Go
Should I run it...
EDIT: Paste the code here. I'm at work.
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I think it's stupid for people to speculate about Blizzard's greed affecting the gameplay. It's never the case that such happens.
They might make the game annoying (no LAN, always online, one account, etc), but they're not going to change the game itself.
What's more worrying is them streamlining the game to attract a larger audience. Toning down the graphics to attract a larger audience with cheaper PC's.
My favorite part of the first game was that any type of character could wear any type of armor. But to me, Diablo 2 was a stream-lined version of Diablo 1.
I much more enjoyed the fact that any character could use any spell as long as they dropped for you. That was much more interesting to me than the skill trees.
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Why are people even discussing this?
Who cares if you can sell items if the graphics are dated and the game-play is dumbed-down?
I personally am a hoarder, so I couldn't possibly comprehend selling anything I ever pick up, ever. I don't care if it's worth even $5 real American bucks I ain't sellin' it.
The point is what I said as my first point that is.
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@maverck: Go
It took me forever to figure out that my Mage in WoW couldn't wear plate when I first tried the game. I just assumed I'd be able to use it eventually because the only similar game I played before it was Diablo 2.
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I edited my previous posts for tact.