theKalash

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Nice, let’s get this on the way!

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That’s great news, hope this goes through, soon.

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MS is the last hope to safe some of the classic Blizzard titles as the state of Activision Blizzard as it is simply can’t get any worse.

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What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?

Literally anything.

There is currently a handful of devs doing the occational balance patch for SC2 otherwise the game is complelty dead from the developer side. On the MS side, AoE2 and other even older games are doing so much better.

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And AoE2 came out 24 years ago and is supported with expansions to this day.

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The issue is not not players of devs, but the management that probably doesn’t think it’s profitable enough anymore. Yet, Microsoft manages to keep AoE2 going with an even smaller playerbase than SC2.

So MS taking over an abandon francise I care about sounds pretty sweet to me.

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Doesn’t matter. The option to pay for some more content is literally what I’m hopeing for.

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It doesn’t to me. They can re-release the game with an updated engine or just add more content via DLCs and expansions, I’ll take either.

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Not that much. Yes, AoE2 usually adds new factions, that won’t happen in StarCraft II. But introducing new units or reworking existing one is possible.

Adding singleplayer mission is pretty mich the same.

Also the Co-op mode of SC2 is quite popular and there is room to add a “new factions” there.

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Different how?

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There will always be adblock in some form, it can’t be removed.

But even if it somehow happened, I don’t see how that would affect my pirating. Sure, some torrent sites might be a bit harder to navigate, but that’s just an inconvenience.

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I really hate ads, too. But I don’t think I would be turning to street crime because of them.

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I think it’s a qoute from some sitcome, I don’t remember where I heard it. But it’s “Not watching the ads is like stealing TV!”. And it’s about just changing the channel during an ad break. It’s clearly a joke, too. But maybe some people actually believe that.

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But why would this happen because of ads?

I don’t see this direct link between adblockers and being able to pirate stuff.

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No, that’s the chancellor of Germany.

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Have you seen the recent remakes of disney Films?

Let’s just say, they won’t become timeless classics like the original animated movies.

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You can’t expect an video game journalist to understand basic display principles.

Yes you can.

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Same goes for calling it 4K or UHD, even when one is technically incorrect.

Why is it incorrect? 4k isn’t a formal standard. It just means you have approximatly 4k horizontal pixels.

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Sarcasm is my wife.

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Ok, can you formally define it or link me to it?

And I don’t want a definition for “4k DCI” or “4k UHD” … just a formally accepted definition of “4k” (in the context of a display resolution). We can all agree that it colloquially means the number 4000, I hope.

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There is not one definition, if you hear “4K” you can use the context of the conversation to determine if they’re talking about the consumer 4K UHD format or cinematic 4K

I agree. But then it’s not a formal standard.