Should we petition Blizzard to push out a mini-patch increasing map size now?

[Zwiebelchen]

Since Blizzard is staying true to their soon™ policy of far release dates... should we run a petition to make Blizzard act on the filesize now™ instead of later™?


I mean, it's literally just changing a variable for them. No strings attached, And I'd say it's probably the most anticipated feature that Blizzard promised to us, so why keep us waiting on that?

So, yeah, maybe we can convince Blizzard to release a quick mini-patch, dealing with that issue asap?

 

[DracoL1ch]

Like Blizzard cares about community and not sales? In first case companies have their own leaders for communication with fans. Here we see literally nothing but promises

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is not as simple as changing a variable as they need to clone their last stable repository and modify the variable and set up a build process for that cloned repository and then make sure that the variable change makes it into the unstable branch.

 

[DracoL1ch]

It is not as simple as changing a variable as they need to clone their last stable repository and modify the variable and set up a build process for that cloned repository and then make sure that the variable change makes it into the unstable branch.

god, I just imagine how many work that requires. Indeed, we have to wait another year to make it live.
seriously. it's not rocket science. code IS mess, but tweaking a freaking single var isn't big deal whatever the difference between branches are.

 

[pyf]

[...] should we run a petition to make Blizzard act on the filesize now™ instead of later™?

imho, no.

[...] And I'd say it's probably the most anticipated feature that Blizzard promised to us, so why keep us waiting on that?

All good things will come in due time.

So, yeah, maybe we can convince Blizzard to release a quick mini-patch, dealing with that issue asap?

Does Blizzard consider it to be an issue in the first place ?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Does Blizzard consider it to be an issue in the first place ?

That is the important question here...

I suppose not. And that's a problem.

 

[Chaosy]

Wouldn't it be possible to make JNGP extend the limits even more?

 

[Wareditor]

It's not about the JNGP but a limit of Battle.net itself.
Right now you can go over the limit with a bypasser. Though, far from everyone is aware of it or is willing to install it.
Downloading the 8MB bypasser is actually extremely easy - it takes less than a minute.

 

[Chaosy]

I thought he meant map size as in 256x256

 

[Ezekiel12]

Imho no. We made proposals, even got their feedback that an increase is coming which is a rare thing, now we wait. Let them do it according to their release plans.

It's likely that the next big patch will contain it anyways.

 

[WaterKnight]

I mean, it's literally just changing a variable for them. No strings attached

As were and are a couple of other longed for requests. It seems Blizzard is missing a proper workflow/refined update process and thus fails to deliver small fixes and still introduces new problems.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Imho no. We made proposals, even got their feedback that an increase is coming which is a rare thing, now we wait. Let them do it according to their release plans.

It's likely that the next big patch will contain it anyways.

Not necessarily. They made it pretty clear that the next patch will be a balance patch for the chinese ladder community and that bugfixes will probably come later.

@Wareeditor: I know about the filesize mod; the problems with it are: everyone requires that mod, so it's not feasable if you care for bnet compat.

 

[Eagle XI]

doubt the petition would have any effect at all, it will come simply when its done.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Maybe; I was just creating this thread out of frustration about how long it takes to get this patch after the sudden surprise 1.27 patch.

 

[pyf]

Just be patient and trust them...