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Warcraft III: The Single Player Experience
Disoriented writes "Cool interview about the Warcraft 3 single-player campaigns. Has me drooling for a June release." Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
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We can always drop our own beliefs and buy the game anyway!
Hey, it happens all the time...
Who wants a storyline? I want gameplay. I skipped over the stupid cut sequences in WCII and got down to playing the actual game. Who wants tighter integration of cinematic sequences? I thought those sequences were just for screenshots for sales purposes. I don't want to have to watch them. Gameplay is what made WCII great! Not storyline, not cut sequences. Strategy and action!
-- SIGFPE
Yeah right.
So Blizzard should release source code to satisfy programmers, who Slashrants(tm) how evil Blizzard is anyway? What good would that do Blizzard?
I really don't believe, nor hope, this will happen.
People are talking about sending in letters say, "I will not buy your products". That's nice, that's good even, but we all know Blizzard won't pay a huge amount of attention to a few of these. They would pay much more attention to Slashdot editors forwarding this post to them and saying they would have posted it, except that Blizzard is violating basic standards of conduct in the treatment of bnetd. Bad corporations don't deserve free advertising, and putting in a small note about bnetd does not make this any less of an advertisement.
Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release
And if they choose not to drop it, I hope the community speaks out by choosing not to support them by buying it. It is really easy to bitch about companies and their policies but how many of us actually do something about it?
I for one will not be buying it and will send them a letter explaining why I have passed up Warcraft III, and possibly future titles by Blizard.
How many though will say they were wrong to shut down bnetd as they hand them $50?
'Same speed C but faster'
- Linux advocacy, with a corollary to open source
- The Underdog, regardless if it results in board inconsistencies in the apparent Slashdot "platform" (and the instant it's no longer the underdog, it's on the chopping block)
- Science and gadgetry, regardless of lack of substantiation or extreme buzzword content.
This story didn't fall directly under any of these biases, explaining why the original comment poster felt it was non-topical to Slashdot. Harr.I posted earlier on this topic, and checked back just now. Good gravy what a bunch of self-righteous ZEALOTS live here! It's like if it isn't freeware a company doesn't have a right to make it! And how about those insults; someone here called the author of the article a "scum-sucking pig" just because said author sounds like he/she will purchase Wc3 even if Blizz doesn't leave bnetd alone. If you don't like something fine don't get/use it but then you'd better not be developing the crack for it and you'd better not slam other people for adopting the path the rest of us affectionately call the middle ground. Yeah I hate Microsoft for their marketting and all those other companies who take intellectual property to extremes but fanatics in anything (that includes open source and freeware) just plain SUCK. out.
From my experience as a (very lucky) beta tester, I feel the game will be awesome. After trying the multiplayer, I'm actually looking forward to the single player campaign, something I haven't done since Dune II. As for the bnetd issue, I feel that misplaced or misguided is a much better description then 'evil' of Blizzard's/Vivendi's actions. From Blizzard's point of view a week into the public beta, there were already more PIRATED versions of a BETA of its product then most companies get with a final. So acting to protect their investments, they attacked the first target they thought was responsible, none of this 'they are evil anti open source' bullshit.
Hopefully Blizzard will drop their attack against Bnetd before the release.
They won't, but let's face it: it doesn't matter. Has the MPAA stopped shoving css & other protection down our throats? Nope. Is everybody still buying DVDs and going to see movies? Yep. Has RIAA stopped acting like complete strongarm jerks? Nope. Is everybody still buying music? Yep. Is Microsoft still bullying the crap out of small corps & OEMs? Yep. Is everybody still booting to Windows to play games? (I'm looking at you Taco) Yep.
We all get angry around here whenever some article is posted about evil corporation X, destroying small guy Y and screwing over populace Z. We're all up in arms about how we are boycotting them, and everyone should do the same. But we don't. We're just talk. Most of us anyway.
So don't hold any pretentions. We're all buying Warcraft 3 when it comes out, bnetd or no bnetd. We're gonna buy it, play it on our windows partition while listening a cd and playing a dvd in the background.
I'm getting modded down to flamebait aren't I? Crap.
I am BelDion's
Thank the good Lord for warez, err.... did I say that out loud?
Mod my comments down. It'll be fun.