Theory: Blizzard wants for people to stop playing SC2

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Hi.

I have one theory and its explanation, but I am not sure is it corrent and I want to hear opinion from you, other SC2 players.

So the theory is simple: Blizzard wants for people to stop playing SC2

Its explanation is a little bit longer:
So if I remember well, Blizzard announced, somewhere around October 2020, that he wont work on StarCraft 2 anymore, that is they wont make new patches, updates and that kind of stuff. Since it was in October I do not remember that good, but I know that it was something like that. Anyway, since new bug appeared, that is, all of the players have rank bar that says “Bronze 3” all the time and they do not get league promotion when they hit new league, here is where things get interested.
Since I had some game development job in the past, I know that bugs can not appear by themselfs, that is developers need to edit the current code to make new bugs, so this rank progress bar is not a small one and there are 2 options that could happened to made that bug:
1.) Either SC2 code from Octiber made that bug - which I personally think that it is not possible, because from October to now, a lot of time passed and if that code is the problem, this bug will happened a long time ago.
2.) Second option is more logical from my opinion and it is that someone from Blizzard edited SC2 code after the October 2020, that is a couple days ago and that new edited code made that bug.
Now since they said that they wont make new patches and updates or something similar to that, then why did they edit current code, if they did not want to make changers to current build or to add new content and what is even more interesting is that when they wanted to edit “League Ranking Scripts”, when they made this new bug.
So if they did not want to make some changers to ranking system, like they said in October, then why did they edit that code, that is that scripts?
One explanation of this is that someone from Blizzard said to some game developer to on purpose edit that code and make that bug and if you want to ask why, then logical answer will be that Blizzard want to make SC2 bad game, so that less people play it.

But there is still a question, why do they want to destroy the SC2??

This is my theory and it is maybe bad and maybe good and that is why I want to hear others opinion on my logic on this interesting topic, so feel free to add you own comment to this.

Also, sorry for grammar errors in this text, English is my second language :smiley: .

At last but not least, I want to say that I did not want to offend anyone by this, I only told my logic here and that is all and I am sorry if anyone got offended by this.

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Yes, stop playing godlike SC2 and go to Warzone \ WoW \ Hearthstone \ OW(1 and 2)

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You propably think sc2 was there forever but its previous successor wc3 was the real deal. Whats even with the game even not have item / heroes? Why handicap original master concept.

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Well SC2 have bigger esports then wc3 and in general for a while it was more popular then wc3 and I think that it still is, at least in my region.

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You forget WC2. Which was even better than wc3. Why? Because no hero unit nonsense in WC2.

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Theory 3, someone on team 1 really loved SC and was keeping the game together with bandaids and ducktape, now they fired him and the new season was a disaster because they moved the servers or some internal network change. Is not like they have special SC2 servers, must be rooted to all Blizzard network, just a guess.

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Dont speak when not knowing bat sht about the scenes. you are new to the scenes. War3 has been bigger than SC2, maybe SC1 had more popularity or equal. certainly more in Korea but I’d say War3 had for some years more popularity than SC1 as well. Before WoW destroyed War3 and before SC2 came war3 was huge, let me not even count Dota but even 1v1 was massive…

SC2 is considered harder game and with this fast pace and best moments come from worker harass by DK… (like war3 doesnt have that yet you can recover with creeps and items), made a lot of people quit and not play SC2 as they consider it too hard core, I never seen someone complaining about pace in war3. When I did some War3 after years of SC2 War3 even felt slow lol

Much better than having 60-70 of your supply in workers and even though some things felt strong like higher lvl heros taking out small armies alone, design I would say still better than how stupid some SC2 units is made, I never saw such Asymmetrical design where Protoss is designed to be the EZ race (just watch Gabe beating Terrans with his protoss lol) while Terr having to be the hard way.

More or less in war3 because of more symmetry any race could harass and things felt more equal and balanced and they did that for 4 races. Yes undead hated orc, hu hated ud, orc hated hu and elf was the protoss but still felt much better in all matchups.

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WC3 was trash and hero units are stupid

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Wait WC2 has no hero unit garbage? That game sounds great now I just need to decide between SC, SC2 and WC2 to play

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This is your stupid opinion, heros allowed for great strategy and made the game like chess in a way. Lvl 3 abilities were getting too strong but nothing tier 3 cant kill fast

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If blizzard really wanted people to stop playing sc2 I would have expected a sc2: resomething announced.

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Ure wrong, code in sc2 may be dynamical (server code), and most likely change in general players activity/playstyle/behavior/pattern put ladder hierarchy in somesort of un foreseen state that needed to be maintained but its propably very hard or lack workforce to do that.
There is other possibilities too, like some uprage somewhere made it behave in different way(server, netcode ect)
Or maybe there isnt but and its just hallucination? Sometimes people start to believe all kind of bizarre stuff when a group reinformes it.

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Heroes add pointless fluff, it makes the game boil down to pure hero micro. Also creeps blocking expansions is also stupid since it also limits play. Warcraft3 basically forces each build down the same path with very little variation or good micro/macro balance.

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Creep blocking isn’t like fighting a side enemy, more like destroying a wall that blocks the way but it is always fun to see what item you get and it can help you, competing for who gets items adds more fun than just micro. Macro is lesser, I find this much better than spamming workers. LotV became exactly that with the big maps. Basically if you expand you are already winning. Forget these noobs that try to punish your greediness. Who even does that anymore? Some gold and silv leaguers that try to 1 base u.

War3 you can always punish an expander and not wait to max, you can just finish games early. Also you get early abilities from camps that can add nice advantage, it is a risk with win, makes it very diverse. So it was fun, some say they could tone down heroes abilities a bit, probably but worker harass is no different from psi storm insta kill workers. You even have more time to react… you can restore your workers since you dont have to restore 60+ workers which is already gg if it happens in sc2

Ppl who bash war3 have no clue tbh

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Right bud you should definitely download and play it.

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No, Heroes made the game about the Agility attribute, and birthed the MOBA.
It was literally one of the worst mechanics in WC3.

Heroes were so strong, games ended when one player got to lvl 3 before the other, and it killed all the actual Strategy in the RTS tag.

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personally, i thought wc3 and the hero thing was lame… just an awful way to play RTS … i HATED it, i didn’t even finish the campaign and never played it again…

sc : bw and sc2 tho… i’ve spent COUNTLESS hours on…

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The campaign actually isn’t bad. The heroes don’t straight up ruin the game like they do on multiplayer. And i know exactly what you mean by that.

You should go back and finish the campaign though it’s a good story. The expansion pack Frozen Throne is really worth getting and playing.

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Still… that’s like totally your opinion. I know semi pros, and pros who switched to SC2 when it came and they do not think it’s bad, neither do I.

I wouldn’t mind if the game had less strong heroes maybe that would easier to balance. I hated a lvl 6 DH that could take out my ranged army and turn the battle was like wtf but still it’s fine with heroes. Though, I fully support IF newer warcraft came to have less strength on the heroes. Coil nova still remains biggest snipe of all.

Maybe you hate micro, protoss player,. thats why you are protoss but even without heroes there would be so much you need to micro with your units… seems you dont like that micro game. MOBA is just a casual mode of it, just heroes but back in the day we had to micro heroes AND units.

I’d take micro skill over macro and A move mechanics (thats why in SC2 so many times lower skill player can beat you) but I also like to move on to newer games. Watching tod because he does what he did best, yet I cant see myself playing such an old game if nothing fresh comes with it