No Chat Lobbies is FAIL (BNet2.0)

[Nottoway]

Asking for a 2v2 in a chat lobby is redundant with matchmaking

You fail at knowing what a 2v2 AT is, being as your probably never played WC3, I will explain for you. Arranged Team or shortened "AT" is a feature whereby you and another player are both inside the same channel, be it clan, private, public, etc, then you or the other player invites you into a pre-game Arranged Team lobby. This can also be expanded up to a 4v4 whereby 4 people are invited into a game to play.

My point about removing lobbies is going to make playing team games with randoms is going to be a lot harder.

[Xyvik]

You fail at knowing what a 2v2 AT is, being as your probably never played WC3, I will explain for you. Arranged Team or shortened "AT" is a feature whereby you and another player are both inside the same channel, be it clan, private, public, etc, then you or the other player invites you into a pre-game Arranged Team lobby. This can also be expanded up to a 4v4 whereby 4 people are invited into a game to play.

My point about removing lobbies is going to make playing team games with randoms is going to be a lot harder.

Just so it makes it to both topics: I would heartily recommend that you take a nice deep breath and try to calm yourself. We still don't know everything about Bnet 2, nor about their chat services. After all, Bnet 2 is the reason SC2 was delayed, so finishing touches on a chat system (OR a matchmaking service) are not out of the equation yet.

That's right. Deep breath. Breathe.

[Nottoway]

Just so it makes it to both topics: I would heartily recommend that you take a nice deep breath and try to calm yourself. We still don't know everything about Bnet 2, nor about their chat services. After all, Bnet 2 is the reason SC2 was delayed, so finishing touches on a chat system (OR a matchmaking service) are not out of the equation yet.

That's right. Deep breath. Breathe.

Word, I'm leaving my computer for a bit. Continue the conversation all you want, I want to hear what more people have to say. I've already seen over at TL they are quite pissed about it >_<

I am just going to leave this picture so people that don't play WC3 can see how more organized the lobbies look.


The yellow boarders indicate clan shaman and or leaders which have kick/ban power over the lobby.

[Aldrius]

I can't stand chat rooms. Even with people I know I flat out hate the set up.

I much prefer an IM set-up. It makes it easier to talk with people I actually know. And if you want to meet new people use the AMM, and if you enjoyed playing with/against them, then add them to your friends list to play with them at a later date.

It's that simple as far as I'm concerned...

What do they think, we all play WoW and will bring all of our WoW fagbuds to play some SC2 and we can find each with other with our stupid Real IDs?

No, they think a lot of people play WC3 and WoW, and a lot will play SC2 and D3. And they want to make sure they can all be connected even when playing other games.

I might be more sympathetic to your case if you didn't use idiotic terms like 'fagbuds'.

[FoxSpirit]

I don't understand?

Whoever said you can't just make a group chat setup for the whole clan, since you can obviously do group chats.

*is confuzzled*
edit: Wait, this is about public chat channels? Never used them, Spam galore

@Aldrius: Wow, exactly like I meet new people to play with online. Though I hope I can tag them so I know WHY I added them

[FoxSpirit]

Take the party chat window from here
http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots...2677#img139750
and make it full screen. You can likely resize all window areas and probably the font size.

You'll get used to the look.

And about public channels, if Blizzard thinks demand is high enough (seems so), they can easily add them. Actually, have they explicitely said no chat channels or do people just assume it? I didn't catch that yesterday

[Gifted]

They stated in interview that chat channels will not be out at launch, they will have it soon afterwards. They are removing the "Generic US-west 08" chat channels. The channels that have "no reason"

Second: They have not discussed anything about clan support at all.

/thread.

[Crazy_Jonny]

IMO this new system is a lot more efficient. I'm not going to miss those spam bots at all.

[FoxSpirit]

They stated in interview that chat channels will not be out at launch, they will have it soon afterwards. They are removing the "Generic US-west 08" chat channels. The channels that have "no reason"

Second: They have not discussed anything about clan support at all.

/thread.

Ah, ok, thanks. So in the end the chat channels will be fine.

And I simply assume clan support. It's in War3, it's in WoW, I narily have a doubt that it will be in Starcraft 2.

Ah well, so that's that.

[Hamshank]

I respectively disagree.