Is melee map dying?

[sonofjay]

What do you think of this? Many here on hive keep telling that melee map if not dying... dead.

Me I don't really believe on this. What about you?

 

[Map Designer]

well.... to some degree. It depend on the community. few people play it on garena. Even my relatives do not gather to play my map, I may just play with one or two. but in game ranger, everybody joins every time

 

[sonofjay]

I agree that only few people play melee on garena, but I'm still sure that there are still many people play it on lan with friends or with ai.

 

[Map Designer]

I think I like the people in game ranger because they are "fresh". many are just new to warcraft or new to online w3, and thus it is fu to play with them>>> but when they become dota nerds...

 

[snowman990]

When they become a dota nerd they will turn aggressive...

 

[sonofjay]

well lets not talk DotA here, this place is for melee map enthusiast, for me melee maps is not really dead, But I mostly play it with ai since I can't find someone to play on garena. But man its more fun to play a FFA 12 player ai match than playing with a real person since they quit when they losing.

 

[Ken-E]

Melee maps aren't dying nor it will die. It's simple unpopular among bunch.

 

[sonofjay]

@Ken-E so true, but I can still remember the day when melee is very popular.. battle.net, lan, anywhere.

Well we are some of the few remaining melee map makers here. I already send some invitations to others, I hope they'll reply soon.

 

[snowman990]

melee maps are not dying, they're still alive. But there's only a tiny amount of peoples that interested in it.

 

[cluGAmERsy]

Just like Ken-E said, melee maps are not dying, just unpopular. We're not the only ones that play melee maps, there are still a few of them in the unknown and perhaps they don't know hiveworkshop, yet still play them. So, overall we're not the only ones playing, there maybe some more few people in the world that play and just doesn't know hive yet. Just my opinion.

 

[sonofjay]

@clu, well actually thats true, I have more than 10 friends here that play melee but don't have a hive account, mainly because they don't like modding that much. well I'm still trying to grab more people here.

 

[eubz]

It will die if we let 'em die.

 

[sonofjay]

@Eubz, that is why I made this group, to keep the melee map making alive, with just some few push then we can encourage more people to play/make melee maps. I'll try my best to do it, I hope you guys too.

 

[Dark One]

To be honest, in fact I like melee maps, but my problem is the terrainings ...
I'm terrible with the terrains!!!

 

[Mgeterno11]

Yes, i agree with the others, melee maps are not dying, bot not the exactly most played map type. Unfortunately, lots of people do not like them, because they have to use the melee tech, and they have to wait a bit until all of the buildings and units are finished. so that's why people prefer ORPG or AoS maps, because they just have to control only one hero.
I really like melee maps, and they are better than DoTa, or AoS maps.
@Dark One There are several terrainers on this site who can terrain your map. You should ask them, and post the requested map to the forums.

 

[Ujimasa Hojo]

I haven't really played much melee lately because I'm too busy with school stuff and making new maps. As for terraining, what I do is take at least one Blizzard map, cut it to pieces and put them together in a different manner. I have also taken some of the campaign maps, particularly the ones involving cities, and modified them to be melee compatible.

 

[Darkfang]

PEOPLE of the melee nation... ACTIVATE! happy new year =D

 

[Orcnet]

What do you think of this? Many here on hive keep telling that melee map if not dying... dead.

then they lost there honor of warcraft 3

well depends on the community or the people that play this game, the common reason is the sporting of brand new (highly graphics) games that we don't spot them much on competitive matches by event or in online consoles

some people still play this though(especially us, and other wc3 forums) with friends, scheduled day/time in consoles, or the usual LAN

but its not dying only reducing

 

[MasterHaosis]

They are not duying until we are alive!

 

[Darkfang]

Yeap.. but still... I NEED TESTERS: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/maps-564/deadly-hate-208413/ yay! ^^

 

[Remixer]

Melee is not dying, but however Warcraft III is.

 

[NightSkyAurora]

In my opinion, melee maps are dying. unlike other maps, melee maps can't improve because when you change any unit data, add triggers, import models, ect, then it isn't classified as a melee map anymore. Melee maps are the same for about... 8 years? The downside of alerted melee maps is that each map works diffirent and usually has bugs or is incomplete. To keep melee maps popular, it must be improved, and if we want's to improve it, all melee maps of that 'melee version' must work the same