Starcraft 2 development to cost $100 million

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mirgro said:

tube82 said:

i think the battle net 2.0 hate is over the top.

1. it's not THAT bad. saying it has "half the functionality of battle.net" is stupid.

2.  nothing is set in stone and it will definitely evolve. sure, a few core features are missing, but the chat-feature will come for sure and other things like cross region play are at least planned (see http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25399622869&sid=3000&pageNo=3#43 )

not having a LAN mode is a debatable design choice for sure. i think it's to prevent pirates having access to multiplayer either via local LAN or hamachi and other tools, but it's still something that will be missed by many. still: that is a design decision regarding SC2, not BN2.0!

It is half the functionality. Before you could chat, play on LAN, have limitless custom games, use ladders, matchmaking. Now you can only do the ladders, and match making and half assed custom gaming due to piss poor restrictions. I believe that is indeed half.

you forgot cross-region play. in fact, that, chats and LAN are the only things (though not unimportant of course) really missing in bn2.0. but you also have in game voice chat, replays, cross-game chat with friends, achievements (well, some love them) and other stuff.
plus, as i said, it will evolve. the starcraft 1 battle.net was crap compared to Warcraft 3 battle.net as well. besides probably  lan play all old features will eventually be back. i'm not saying it's perfect now, but it WILL become better with missing features and new features like clan support. i just don't feel the need to crap all over the admittedly not yet complete package, something like chat should be a given really, when it will be updated anyway. but whatever, some just have to much time it seems... or feel the need to criticizes everything.

heck, people play on and even PAY for xbox live gold, and to me THAT is one crappy online service...