TeamLiquid Selling Out to Blizzard?

Looking at SC2 so far, the truth is plain for all to see. It's War3 style graphics, a War3 style engine. Is that a Turret or an SCV? Is that Kerrigan, an Infested Terran, a Marine? Who the fuck knows. They couldn't get the mouse to feel right in the War3 engine, with lower framerates, higher resolution, a completely different engine for the mouse, etc. Looks like it will be the same in War4, I mean SC2, right?

But at TeamLiquid they believe differently. You will hear convincing testimony that it "feels just like SC, but it's prettier and shinier", in addition to assurances that "Blizzard is listening to us, just trust them." Well where do these opinions come from?

They come from a certain elite group that has, or pretends to have, direct contact with Blizzard. More knowledge than us. And from the people who suck up to those people.

A suck-up structure on TeamLiquid has been building for over half a decade. Combined with a powerful form of banning and topic-closing, TeamLiquid has all the fuel they need to perpetuate just the opinions Blizzard wants them to about SC2. Just go skim the closed topics about SC2, and look at the majority of bans and temp-bans for SC2 posts. Negativity is not only "uncool" there (thanks to the suck-up structure), but actually being silenced, by and large.

I'm sure that the authorities and top suck-ups by now, actually believe what they are saying about SC2. But that doesn't make it true. Any self-respecting SC:BW player chose SC:BW over War3, and not just because they didn't like creeping or heros. It's because they didn't like the quality of the product. The Blizzard who made SC:BW is a very different one from the one that made War3. People left, and we all know it.

The result was obvious. War3 wasn't up to par. They chose style over substance, to a point where the style was ugly if you tried to play at the same level possible in SC:BW. SC players can't tell what the fuck is going on on a War3 screen, and it is obvious that so far, this applies to SC2. And it would be a miracle, an act of God, if SC2 turns out to be more responsive than War3. It's the same engine. The reasons for the War3 "feel" were the higher resolution and lower framerate, both bound to be still present in SC2. These were the main reasons we stayed away from War3, never warmed up to it.

So why is a self-respecting SC:BW community ignoring the obvious about the sequel to War3? I think they must have been lead to, lead by people who are looking for inside access from Blizzard, looking for their site to be a big, successful SC2 site, looking for beta-keys, exclusive interviews. And looking to suck up to such people. People have ulterior motives to be praising SC2, and these same people have the power to shut down the obvious truth about it. It's Warcraft 4: Orcs in Space, folks! Come on.

It doesn't look pretty, and it won't play pretty for hardcore SC players. At the end of the day the English-speaking SC:BW community should be ashamed of itself for selling out its standards to suck up to the corporation bearing the name and rights to their favorite game. Despite that this corporation has been mis-patching their game, interfering with competitive leagues, making shitty, buggy, beta-quality sequels in 3d engines, etc. For years now! They should feel mislead by their leaders, who are being used by Blizzard, hook, line, and sinker, folks.

Go play War3 a bit. Go look at SC2's screenshots. Go look at their artwork (nice artists drawing recycled or uninteresting things from the recycled or uninteresting design specs from this corporate shell of "Blizzard"). Go look at who started these rumors that SC2 is gonna have it all fixed. The same people silencing all common sense on TeamLiquid.net. Same people who stand to gain so much. Make up your own minds.

This is the Blizzard that constantly destroyed WGTour, gamei, that let PGTour die, that has yet to do a god damn thing for pro-gaming. Whose recent patch doesn't even let us know if people are downloading a god damn map. I feel sorry for War3 players most of all, for having to buy yet another shitty expansion.