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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What's that stuff about storyline?

[SIGFPE]

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!

Re:What's that stuff about storyline?

[SIGFPE]

Well they say the big studios like movies to catch the interest of at least two major ethnographic groups: geeks, Lifetime TV watchers, jocks etc. I guess Blizzard were smart enough to catch more than one group with their game too...

Re:Makes it all better

[tankefugl]

Uh.

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?

1. Paving the way for pirating coming and existing Blizzard titles.
   
2. Limit Blizzards posibilites to launch controlled betas.
   
3. Satisfy a group of idealistic users who DON'T believe in a commercial model after all, so that they would .. eh .. buy it?
   

I really don't believe, nor hope, this will happen.

This story shouldn't have been posted

[Ian Bicking]

This isn't important news, and Slashdot would be no worse if this particular article wasn't posted.

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.

bnetd

[Fizzlewhiff]

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?

Re:Unbiased

[Ian Bicking]

Slashdot is primarily a news site, which should try to be as unbiased as possible in that which it reports to the world, they shouldn't ignore something just because some people might not like it. That's censorship - which the news is supposed to oppose above all else.

I agree that it is a sticky issue to not spread a bit of news because of its associations. OTOH, this article is just an ad... Gaming News is hardly real news, by even the most forgiving definition of news. The gaming publishing industry also has close to no journalistic integrity, so places that link to them have every reason to discriminate when the original sources choose not to. I'm not saying such not-really-news shouldn't be posted at all... but because of the entirely superfluous nature of the article, there's no journalistic requirement to post it. It's fluff, and it's an outright promotion of Blizzard's product. And again, that would still be fine, except that Blizzard is a bad company.

Re:Remind me never to read comments on this site

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

The question wasn't whether Blizzard has a right to make what they want. The question is why they think they have the right to keep others from doing the same.

Some of you retards need to have some sense beat into you.

Reality check

[BelDion]

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.