00:00 - 00:05 | The player base is getting restless, they are saying "hey Blizzard, you need to throw some man hours into Starcraft 2. This is your last chance" |
00:05 - 00:07 | "Lets go lets go!" |
00:07 - 00:10 | Liquid.Sheth even came to us asking about skins, micro transactions... |
00:11 - 00:16 | anything to keep us interested in SC2 as a product. |
00:17 - 00:21 | We told him we were saving that for Heros |
00:21 - 00:24 | Heros of the Storm |
00:26 - 00:28 | (Pause to breath) |
00:31 - 00:34 | Heros! |
00:38 - 00:40 | It runs on the same engine, we just couldn't be fucked! |
00:41 - 00:47 | We told them it was graphical limitations |
00:47 - 00:50 | Dustin told them the same thing about allowing casters to zooming further out to see the entire battle. |
00:50 - 00:56 | "The engine just can't handle it." |
00:58 - 00:59 | Even though hacks have been doing it since 2011 |
00:59 - 01:01 | Just like that! Zoom out! |
01:04 - 01:06 | We just had to move the camera up. |
01:06 - 01:08 | At the time we only had two people working assigned to Starcraft 2 |
01:13 - 01:14 | One is the social media guy |
01:14 - 01:16 | And the other |
01:16 - 01:20 | is so shell shocked by the feedback |
01:21 - 01:27 | he lives in fear of pissing off some gold leaguers |
01:35 - 01:36 | They say they want more micro potential |
01:36 - 01:39 | so we add spells to every unit. It's like a 50 v 50 moba |
01:41 - 01:44 | But seriously, we now have the man power |
01:44 - 01:47 | for the Legacy of the Void launch |
01:47 - 01:49 | we are going to do it right |
01:50 - 01:53 | We are giving them back half the features we took away after Warcraft 3 |
01:54 - 01:56 | Can you believe it |
01:56 - 01:58 | we just found the technology |
01:58 - 02:02 | It's like Europe after the fall of Rome around here |
02:05 - 02:08 | Selling features that have been around since 2002 |
02:08 - 02:12 | We got that idea off the intern |
02:12 - 02:14 | fucking Edward, what a champ |
02:15 - 02:17 | so we promoted him... |
02:17 - 02:20 | He was so happy, this guy loves Starcraft |
02:21 - 02:28 | and then we promoted him to the Heartstone team |
02:29 - 02:30 | Hearthstone? |
02:30 - 02:32 | to the Hearthstone team |
02:36 - 02:39 | He walks the halls saying "WELL MET!" |
02:40 - 02:44 | The most tallent we've had in the team since 2012 and we ship him off to make card games |
02:50 - 02:55 | Don't even bring up F2P models |
02:56 - 02:58 | Why not? |
02:58 - 03:04 | We send all map data to both all clients. It's the easiest game to hack since Brood War. |
03:04 - 03:09 | So we do a ban wave every 10 months |
03:09 - 03:11 | Such is life |
03:16 - 03:20 | Then we drop the price of the game and the hackers buy it again |
03:23 - 03:26 | Nerffy has bought 23 copies |
03:31 - 03:36 | Anyway, LotV is out in November. I'm sure it will be great. |