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Yea I’m not expecting this to have the polish of SC2, at least not at launch. It’s a brand new studio that has to rebuild all of their dev tools and processes from scratch. They’ll cut corners where they can. They’re VC funded and I don’t see more money coming to them pre-launch in the current economic environment. They gotta produce with what they’ve got and I think that’s why we’re seeing them really ramp up their timeline. I’m very excited. It’ll probably be very rough around the edges at first but they seem to have the right team in place and the entire sc2 fanbase, casters, and pros all seem primed to switch over at launch.
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Stormgate has the SC2 backend/pathing guy so I’m not worried about that. The clips so far look more like Warcraft than StarCraft but I’ll play the hell out of whatever they release. SC2’s problem is that they solved balance problems with splash damage, which, combined with SC2’s pathing causing armies to ball up means that half your army could instantly be deleted. It made for fun pro games because pros were really good at micro but for your average gamer it is very stressful.
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I think it will probably end up fine as long as their investors don’t force them to rush the launch. I think having co-op released as a deliberate part of the game will be super important. SC2 co-op was hugely popular at first and was only added when SC2 was already well past its prime. They have all of the right people working on the game so I’m looking forward to playing it at launch. I have zero interest in playing beta or donating to the game since the game is still clearly a long way off.
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Yea there’s definite risk that frost giant pursues casual play too much and you end up with a game that appeals to no one a la Heroes of the Storm.
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Yea nathanias is a bitter dude with a chip on his shoulder. I think he’s probably a nice dude but never able to separate his personal views/life from his casts. There’s a bunch of really good SC2 casters but less work to go around. Pissing off the European pros was basically self immolation because SC2 pro scene is dead in NA and KR while the EU SC2 scene is very much alive and evolving.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:This investment thing has me nervous. FrostGiant got about $35 million in funding before they started, then $2 million from Kickstarter. I'd rather they wait until it's ready. Or maybe get co-op out the door first to get revenue going while perfecting the 1v1 and 3v3 competitive.
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