3rd Party Hosting platforms for Reforged (Think Garena, Gameranger, W3arena etc)
Yay or nay? And why?
Personally I am kinda middle-of-the-road here, leaning towards Nay - while I do hate playing with the CykaBlyat types as much as any of you, and making the game more accessible and diverse will result in overall growth, especially when it comes to the map-making community I DO have some concerns that it might divide the player base.
The counter argument to that is that some platforms offer a better connection to some regions / countries and fair enough, strong point, don’t really have an argument against that.
What are your thoughts?
Personally, I am damned tired of having to go through sites like makemehost to play custom games on wc3. The reason gameranger and the like were needed for wc3 was because it was so old it needed support from outside, just like before darksouls remastered, most online players got a connectivity mod to bypass the horrid matchmaking. DS remastered fixed the connectivity issue, and the mod isn’t needed, just like gameranger.
Blizzard have taken a stance and said they don’t want 3rd party auto-hosting in the game. This have a created a vacuum in the map making system that needs to be filled up by an alternative. If Blizzard don’t want 3rd party hosting then they should go ahead and provide the service themselves.
However, you don’t want that to be provided for free as it would create an enormous amount of unpopular auto-hosted map in the game lists. To filter the unpopular ones out I suggest it being a service that World Editors pay for.
If you want your map to be auto-hosted, then have a monthly subscription of maybe 5$. That way serious mapmakers can be filtered out from the unserious ones. If there’s several mapmakers responsible for one map then you could also invent a system which splits the price, that way making it more affordable for one World Editor to be responsible for many different auto-hosted maps.
I think that the most popular custom games created by Classic Games should be auto-hosted as well.
How about just the LAN functionality?
the connectivity issues and matchamking (still require some refinements) are already been fixed in the classic version through patches. W3A and other 3d party host clients are dead for that reason.
I don’t have a real opinion on the matter, but I just want to say that absolutely hate that how the numerous hosting bots now clutter the custom game list with abundance of empty games. It just takes forever to get to play anything because people don’t know which games have actually someone playing it, and which are just stupid bots hosting them 24/7… That is something I definitely don’t want to see in Reforged.
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