10 day recap, also my feelings on the current state of starcraft/battlenet
Things have been good. Joey's birthday party and memorial bbq were good. Laura and I are taking him to toledo zoo on his actual birthday (Wednesday.) Hopefully he likes that. It will be nice to go out as a family regardless.
It's weird seeing my little cousins not being little anymore. They range in ages from 12-17. It's like they're actually people now. Except my little cousin nunu, he's still a douchebag.
I'm sure i'll have picture spam from memorial day and the zoo. They'll probably be uploaded onto facebook but i'll post a few here. If we're not friends on there feel free to look me up. Romeo Janavikas.
I pulled my reserve on Starcraft. Mostly it was for extra birthday money for Joey but it also plays a part in things i dislike. To summarize here's a comment on left on someones status:
"I actually pulled my reserve the other day. I have quite a few qualms with it. As Jerry mentioned the DRM is fucking terrible, i'm sure i'll still be able to get a pirated copy within a week of release. I'm super pissed about all 3 games being 60$ each. They should charge the normal 20-40$ for an expansion and not a full game price. And yeah, no LAN plus the fact that battle.net 2.0 is terrible and non functional really gives me the idea that i don't want to buy this game. I'd rather take joey to toledo zoo."
I don't want to feel obligated to buy a video game because i own the others. But after taking a step back and being objective about it i found that i'm pretty displeased over all. It needs a total reworking. I mean it does feel balanced but it feels like it was balanced around a broken foundation. The custom games are still great, and i'm looking forward to the campaign, and i actually DO enjoy the matchmaking system. Battle.net's lack of a chat system, the fact you have to give your email address out to friend people, and having to buy an additional game if you want to play on a different regions server seems like they are taking several steps backward. Later incarnations of a game should have MORE functionality, not less.
They beta is ending temporarily and they are supposedly making big changes to the game. Then a 2nd beta will take place a few weeks before release. I'll speak more about my thoughts when that comes around. But as of right now i have no intentions of picking up Sc2 at launch. And it is disappointing.
Joey is fucking awesome. He loves his new pool btw.
It's weird seeing my little cousins not being little anymore. They range in ages from 12-17. It's like they're actually people now. Except my little cousin nunu, he's still a douchebag.
I'm sure i'll have picture spam from memorial day and the zoo. They'll probably be uploaded onto facebook but i'll post a few here. If we're not friends on there feel free to look me up. Romeo Janavikas.
I pulled my reserve on Starcraft. Mostly it was for extra birthday money for Joey but it also plays a part in things i dislike. To summarize here's a comment on left on someones status:
"I actually pulled my reserve the other day. I have quite a few qualms with it. As Jerry mentioned the DRM is fucking terrible, i'm sure i'll still be able to get a pirated copy within a week of release. I'm super pissed about all 3 games being 60$ each. They should charge the normal 20-40$ for an expansion and not a full game price. And yeah, no LAN plus the fact that battle.net 2.0 is terrible and non functional really gives me the idea that i don't want to buy this game. I'd rather take joey to toledo zoo."
I don't want to feel obligated to buy a video game because i own the others. But after taking a step back and being objective about it i found that i'm pretty displeased over all. It needs a total reworking. I mean it does feel balanced but it feels like it was balanced around a broken foundation. The custom games are still great, and i'm looking forward to the campaign, and i actually DO enjoy the matchmaking system. Battle.net's lack of a chat system, the fact you have to give your email address out to friend people, and having to buy an additional game if you want to play on a different regions server seems like they are taking several steps backward. Later incarnations of a game should have MORE functionality, not less.
They beta is ending temporarily and they are supposedly making big changes to the game. Then a 2nd beta will take place a few weeks before release. I'll speak more about my thoughts when that comes around. But as of right now i have no intentions of picking up Sc2 at launch. And it is disappointing.
Joey is fucking awesome. He loves his new pool btw.