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Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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Re: Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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Post by justicezyx »

devwastaken wrote: post #3

In other news, Blizzard pays less than $1000 to make sure modders can't make starcraft better than they can.

I am particularly confused by Blz's rationale.

Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources.

While Blz seems always intended to disallow any modder involvement at all. Most Tower Defense games own their popularity to the early days of SC and warcrfatIII. And Dota is basically just a warcraft III mod.

If Blz can learn anything from Valve, it's that they can capitalize on the fan/moder based community, really easy. They just never did anything like that.

On the contrary, they always want to redo what community did to drive off their creations...

This does not sound rational to me...

Re: Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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Post by eropple »

justicezyx wrote: post #4
devwastaken wrote: post #3

In other news, Blizzard pays less than $1000 to make sure modders can't make starcraft better than they can.

I am particularly confused by Blz's rationale. Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources. While Blz seems always intended to disallow any modder involvement at all. Most Tower Defense games own their popularity to the early days of SC and warcrfatIII. And Dota is basically just a warcraft III…

> On the contrary, they always want to redo what community did to drive off their creations...

While they've missed a few here and there, their development strategy has served to make them approximately a hojillion dollars.

As a fan (I built tower defense, RPG, and Diplomacy maps as a kid--MAN do I miss Diplomacy maps, those were great), I kinda wish they would return to encouraging that stuff and push it to the fore. But I get why they don't.

Re: Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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Post by FullMtlAlcoholc »

justicezyx wrote: post #4
devwastaken wrote: post #3

In other news, Blizzard pays less than $1000 to make sure modders can't make starcraft better than they can.

I am particularly confused by Blz's rationale. Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources. While Blz seems always intended to disallow any modder involvement at all. Most Tower Defense games own their popularity to the early days of SC and warcrfatIII. And Dota is basically just a warcraft III…

>Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources.

I simply do not understand this. Moders created an entirely new genre and basically brought Competitive Gaming to the masses, yet Blz won't allow modding on Overwatch. I've had discussions with people who support this and their rationale basically boils down to (1) they don't want to fracture the userbase and (2) they love the design and don't want to upset it. Both are ill founded. The userbase is in the millions and mods would get ppl like me to play again. Also, any graphical mods can simply run on my local machine, exactly like DotA2.

The game engine itself is superb and possibly hanfles/plays better than any other FPS with maybe Destiny being the only competition. There is no doubt modders would create a superior gaming experience. Learn from Bethesda

Re: Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code and Returns It to Blizzard

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Post by downrightmike »

justicezyx wrote: post #4
devwastaken wrote: post #3

In other news, Blizzard pays less than $1000 to make sure modders can't make starcraft better than they can.

I am particularly confused by Blz's rationale. Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources. While Blz seems always intended to disallow any modder involvement at all. Most Tower Defense games own their popularity to the early days of SC and warcrfatIII. And Dota is basically just a warcraft III…

Blz isn't Gaben. Gaben makes it rain. http://whenisthenextsteamsale.com
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