Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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Re:WarCraft3 like StarCraft

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

You can't do "anything" with the trigger system. It is just a simple scripting language intended to make single player campaign maps. Instead everyone felt the need to try to turn Starcraft into something else: If you want to play an RPG, go buy Baldur's Gate II. If you want to play Pokemon, go buy Pokemon. If you want to bomb Bin Laden, join the USAF. The fact is that all these "conversions" have the same units, tilesets, sounds, spells, etc.. of original Starcraft. And for the most part they all suck. (And the idiots who make them fell the need to name the files in all caps, l33t speak, and using nonstandard characters: you get filenames like "+åßßß$|\|1pe|2 P@1n+ß@ll GOLD ULTRA FINAL VERSION V2.08!@!@(TM).scx" which actually cause problems with the Windows filesystem if you ever feel like moving them or deleting them or something)

Trigger Maps along with Hunters/BGH ruined Starcraft for everyone except the *very* good and the morons. There are basically three types of games running in Starcraft:

1)High level ladder games. You have to be either a very good Korean, or a cheater, or both, to have any chance up here.

2)BGH with morons.

3)Crapass trigger maps with morons.

I really wish Warcraft 3 would not include multiplayer Trigger maps, but it probably will, and within a few months it will probably descend into the same idiocy as Starcraft.

Tim