What do you think of refresh?

[En_Fuego]

Honestly, I believe Blizzard's side of the story. The one that states it's just a myth that has no effects whatsoever.

Your ideas on the story?

 

[Instant Ramen]

Honestly, I believe Blizzard's side of the story. The one that states it's just a myth that has no effects whatsoever.

Your ideas on the story?

Please state more information on what refresh is, and where. On Battlenet? On the Internet?...etc.

 

[Killface]

I do believe auto-refresh works in the matter of bringing a game hosted by you to the top of a game list. I think Blizzard just says it's a myth because they want to discourage the use of third party tools.

 

[Belgarath]

It makes a difference. Try sitting in a game for an hour not rfing. Not many people would join. On the other hand, refreshing brings people in. ARF just screws it up -_-

 

[Earth-Fury]

http://wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=98020
This boils down to a simple thing:
Does a game get re-listed at the top of the list after a "We're full" then "Slots are available" packets are sent?

A rather extensive set of tests would be required, but one could rather conclusively find out if one was so inclined. (Or rather, many could find out. Unless you have 3+ test machines running WC3 concurrently.)

I, for one, use banlists auto-refresher. If for nothing else, to make people STFU with the "omg RF slots" spam. That annoys the crap out of me more than waiting for people.

 

[Denu]

Hey it doesnt hurt. It is just one of those superstitious-type things. Like tapping a soda so it doesn't explode or blowing on the game console slot and so on and so forth.

 

[Samuraid]

It makes a difference. Try sitting in a game for an hour not rfing. Not many people would join. On the other hand, refreshing brings people in.

This seems to be how it work in my experience as well. (At least it seems to work this way)

 

[donut3.5]

It seems to work for me, I don't see why it would just cause good luck.. A lack of a refresh will decrease the rate of players joining in my past experiences, whereas once I refresh a small burst will enter.
--donut3.5--

 

[Teh_Ephy]

I've heard that refreshing moves a game to the top of the list, and in my experience it does help when compared to not refreshing.

By the way, blowing into game console slots isn't just superstition; it dates back to the era of cartridge gaming, where dust (mostly) in either the cartridge or cartridge slot could interfere with the console reading the cartridge properly.

 

[Earth-Fury]

By the way, blowing into game console slots isn't just superstition; it dates back to the era of cartridge gaming, where dust (mostly) in either the cartridge or cartridge slot could interfere with the console reading the cartridge properly.

That's a superstition. It comes from the NES mostly, as it had many, many design issues which prevent games from loading properly.

Dirty, aging, and bent connectors would often disrupt the timing, resulting in the blink effect. Alternatively, the console would turn on but only show a gray or green screen. Users attempted to solve this problem by blowing air onto the cartridge connectors, licking the edge connector, slapping the side of the system after inserting a cartridge, and/or cleaning the connectors with alcohol which, observing the back of the cartridge, was not endorsed by Nintendo. Many of the most frequent attempts to fix this problem ran the risk of damaging the cartridge and/or system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

blowing does work... simple dust... i droped one into a cat litter box when I was younger, stuck it in didn't work, had to get all the litter out then it worked, hence dirt/dust. You can't quote wiki and expect to be right... its a wiki, anyone can say anything.

With refreshing it seems unlikely that it does nothing. It's too big of a coincidence when your in there for 10 minutes and hardly anyone joins and you refresh and pow, 11 player full house.

 

[Hakeem]

its a wiki, anyone can say anything.

Unless the article is locked because idiots were over-editing it.

its a wiki, anyone can say anything.

But do they?

its a wiki, anyone can say anything.

And then anyone can correct it.

I once set up a game to see if I could host, and finally after around 20 minutes or so, someone kindly flamed me that nobody could join and I should remove it from the list. Whatever that means.

Blizzard has motive to lie, but they would know best.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Well if the people join, I don't mind.