Group matchmaking timeline update

If everyone would - in all possible legal contexts - express this disappointment not only here but [a] on social media, maybe even [b] reach out to all important Blizzard contacts or economic services like AfreecaTV , and [c] approach the whole community of people playing Blizzard games to raise awareness for the tragedy this game and its community encounters, then this would at least increase the probability to get some feedback. Otherwise it seems Blizzard will not take serious those few people complaining in this forum that hardly anyone accesses.

Just compare it to the upset on YouTube regarding Diablo Immortal. At least people were able to make some noise.

Unfortunately one cannot expect people to quit playing Overwatch, WoW and all other Blizzard games as a sign of loyalty towards the Diablo and Starcraft 1 community. Even Diablo 3 was still being played by way too many people after the announcement of Diablo Immortal.

Blizzard does not have to care about Broodwar because they have too much success with their other games.

Regarding group matchmaking it is either the case that developers like Grant don’t know how to do it or they don’t care about it (the argument that the remaining developers - if there are any left - do not get enough financial resources from Blizzard is not sufficient, since Grant or any other person could at least keep us informed here).
In a nutshell: no matter how outdated the original code is, a good friend of mine who is a professional game developer explained to me that it is not that hard to realize a decent group matchmaking implementation. Seriously, is there anyone out here who thinks that in 2020 this cannot be done by a few good people within a few months? It is absolutely possible.

From a business point of view Blizzard misses a great opportunity to not only present itself as a company that cares but as one which preserves and extends the legacy of SC1. Lost potential. Let them fail here, they might eventually fail everywhere else - but the latter (pun intended) will only happen if the community stands up.

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new timeline update: Never

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Quite embarrassing that a “AAA” game developer would openly lie to its customer base about game features and then ignore any questions regarding missing features

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Seems like “AAA game developer” doesn’t give a penny for a community that can’t bring a stable money income. The Blizzard have failed so low.

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Any news about 2vs2 matchmaking on the ladder?
Any response for better or for worse would be welcome.

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What are you developing if not something the game desperately needs. I’m not sure what all this cartoon nonsense is. CmON man!

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I think it would be great to have some official update about this issue, its not so much time invested for the developers, we just need a moment of your daily work invested into publish one single post here.

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If they said no even more people would just quit. I don’t blame them lol they are in a sad state

they couldve released lobby 2v2 the very first day. its apparent to anyone with a brain that they are simply lying through their teeth. there will never be 2v2.

I somewhat agree where it is even shown on WC Refunded that while there is no ladder and ranked you can still play unranked. Would have been honestly okay if Remaster would had as 2vs2 not even a ranked version because there are so great discrepancies, that I think the game would still had profiticed if you match a Newbie playing his first docen games with a pro that can mob the floor with two averages because then the Padawan would already have his Master.