AusGamers caught up with StarCraft 2 Producer, Kaeo Milker, after the launch of SC2 in Australia, and have posted a video interview and transcript.
From the interview:
"AG: With the multiplayer beta did any of the tweaks jump over to the single-player campaign at all?
Kaeo: We actually separated the data for the single-player and multiplayer so that any tweaks that we made on the multiplayer game wouldn't affect all of the balance that we have in the campaign. There's a lot of really specific tuning for various difficulty levels against the AI in the campaign and we wanted to make sure to keep that in tact, so they really were separated and kind of two separate parts of the game we were working on..."
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All I want is a physical disc release of remastered D2 that doesn't require online check-ins.
I've lost complete interest. Too much FOMO with seasons as it is, now it's expansions? No thanks.
what fomo? everything gets reset each season and you start new characters unless you're playing on the regular servers and then you're already maxxed anway and just need to participate in the new season stuff.
i played only during launch and i found the ones in that battlepass to be absolute dogwater, the only ones that looked somewhat cool were the paid ones in the store and i wont bother with either. The game itself was just so hollow, there were no cool builds cause every synergy was just "x or y skills does more dmg or has this extra effect" almost no experimentation needed, couldnt give a rats ass about armor if the core of the game is boring af.
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"You can play with some friends in South East Asia then jump over to North America - kind of have the freedom to do that. It's actually a pretty neat thing right now that only down here [Australia\New Zealand] are able to do that."
envying!
doesn't actually come into effect in AU for at least another month and a half though