AceDiamond said:
theultimateend said:
Which still doesn't change my point.
You are entirely autonomous from me, doesn't change the fact that I am motivating your actions right now.
Yes it
does change the point. If Activision has zero control over the decisions made by Blizzard then that means Blizzard's entire plan regarding SCII being split up into 3 parts and the removal of LAN was a decision that rests solely with them. To say that they were coerced or influenced or forced into these decisions is naive.
And I don't even like Activision all that much, they're far and away from their best days, but that doesn't mean I'm just going to go "oh well this is hardly Blizzard's problem, mean ol' Bobby Kotick is telling them to mistreat customers"
So basically I made the point that someone that doesn't have any legal control over you can still make you do what they want was wrong.
Yet twice now I wanted you to respond to my messages and you have. Each time you didn't even have a monetary amount to gain, you just did it, because I gave you a message and you ate it up.
But I suppose we as giving people that work at companies some sort of immunity over the natural human response. "No no you see anyone who works at a company is impervious to all forms of persuasion outside of monetary and legal ones. Unlike the other 99.99% of the human population."
I'm not saying it wasn't Blizzards fault, nor do I care, I'm just saying that you aren't making a very good example by doing exactly what I said is possible. As I stated originally, Girl A is your lover and she bangs you endlessly, she starts hanging out with Girl B who has absolutely no legal or financial control, suddenly Girl A isn't banging you all that much anymore.
So do you assume that Girl A is acting entirely autonomously and has in no way been influenced by Girl B. Or do you like any other rational human being assume that there has been some sort of influence.
Because if you think that the results to the same experiment over and over changing suddenly doesn't generally mean there is an extra variable we might be arguing into an endless loop. But I doubt you are an idiot so I'll just assume you are missing me very simple point.
To be fair to Blizzard their only mistake was announcing what they are doing. They should have known that "Give me it All for Nothing" Customers would have come out of the woodworks. I mean personally I won't even touch it till it becomes a Battle Chest but that has always been my strategy.
I just find it odd that people say "Give me X content all in one game for one price." When absolutely nobody in this entire forum, or on the entirety of the internet, knows just what X entails entirely. Maybe I've just been a fan of not trying to have the intangible tangible as much as the next person.
Enai Siaion said:
All that complaining for a game that's the exact same thing as Starcraft 1, only in 3D.
Just like every other game ever made in any genre was just the exact same thing except for small tweaks. Oh noes...there be a hole in that ship the SS Logic.
Try not to abuse the word "Exact". In Genetics much of the DNA between two seemingly worlds apart mammals can be exact, yet you'd never know it by the little changes in what is different. I'm sure that Starcraft 2 will play different, will have a different storyline, different voiceovers, different SFX, different levels, new units, different balancing on old units, different/additional heroes, and different level editor.
I won't argue that the name is exactly the same except they are adding a II and possible some subtext to it.
Sure we can all hold hands and say that all the things I mentioned are small differences, but that's all any entertainment medium (or shit biological change) is. A seemingly endless series of small advances that to the nostalgic person look like huge jumps.
