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First Warcraft 3 Reviews Trickle In
Mortin writes "Several reviews of Warcraft 3, set to be released on July 3, are up at Icrontic, Tweakers.com.au, and of course IGN. Looks like Blizzard has yet another killer game on their hands."
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So the lack of anything good about MS proves bias? The fact that IS has more exploits, is slower to patch, is installed by default without the users knowledge is evidence of bias?
Please.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
The real reason many hardcore RTS players quit was because they couldn't pull off the rush tactics as well. Everyone knew that the zerg were the best in Starcraft because you could fsck ov3r your opponents with 100 cheap zerglings 5 minutes into the game. The reason they changed some of these things was to stop "hardcore" RTS gamers from degenerating these great games into a simple match of who can build the crappy units faster. That happens with each RTS once people play it long enough.
To cite precedent, it's a lot like when battle.net first spawned into being with Diablo. At first, everyone played fair and square, and competed in a level playing field. Once people found nuances they could exploit in the game, they fsck3d all the p00r, p00r n00bs that didn't have a chance to defend themselves. It's not quite the same, but the analogy fits. I personally agree with this move and it makes one a bit wiser with the dispersion of resources, making it a better arena to compete in.
Any half-decent starcraft player can easily thwart a zerg rush. Example: Put a couple photon cannons in a strategic location such as a choke point leading into your base, then back those cannons up with 5-10 zealots. Make sure each zealot is attacking a different zergling, don't fall in the trap of assigning all your zealots to a single zergling. The p00r n00b need to get some practice because, rush or no rush, they're going to get trampled quite thoroughly until they do.
Now, as for the 'features' blizzard implemented; the original poster makes them sound pretty terrible, and since I'm not going to buy war3 for a while anyways I'll just have to wait to find out. NWN will be good for a while.
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Thanks, Slashdot editors (and readers), for simultaneously proferring and undermining any sense of community or worthwhileness amongst those who oppose DMCA-mongers like Vivendi Universal, owner of Blizzard. Oh, sure, editors, you covered it in your FAQ: "You take your yin with your yang," yadda yadda bullshit. The notion of "objective journalism" is inherently false, a logical fallacy. When you pick facts, events, or say GAMES for your readers out of a vast pool of potential content, you're already unobjective from square one. And this material in the FAQ hides behind the same shield as the mainstream newsmedia who take cover under "objectivism." The Slashdot editors are trying to avoid responsibility, something everyone who influences the views of others is cursed with, justify it or not.
So, editors and readers alike, you DO have a responsibility, and you can't "Have you Cake and Eat it Too" as the most highly modded post for this story suggests. How typically American to think that you can support a corporation that undermines your rights and on the same day support a nonprofit that fights for those rights and expect the karma to all balance out in the mix. We want the instant gratification of getting what we want, and the morally bankrupt ease of not having to answer any hard questions in the process.
There's no real sacrifice involved here. To boycott this game wouldn't involve an expenditure of money, or effort, or anything. In the grand scheme of things, it's not that dire. You just sit there on your ass like you always do, perhaps playing a game from a company that won't sue you for developing software that support their products. YOU COULD DO NOTHING, AND BE DOING THE RIGHT THING. But every free Slashdot promotion for Big Media output continues to pull a consumer revolution right out from under the feet of the people who started it.
Big Media isn't scared of the Slashdot crowd. They know they own your geek bitchasses like they own the Britney Spears cheerleader crowd. You're just another target market, willing to gulp it down at a pretty price. Every story like this, littered with comments from drooling otakus ready to fund Vivendi with mommy's Visa, makes that abudently clear.