World Editor

[Anachron]

About Starcraft II Editor
SC II Market Place

You will be able to get money from the maps you make and the support is totally increased.

Just for letting people know that blizzard cares about our mappers.

 

[The_Grapist]

This is great!

 

[Callahan]

Lol at the sc ghost mod.
I wonder how you can make money with map?
It must be indirect income from ads or stuff.
Because I think few people will spend money for buying a map even if it is as cheap as 1 penny just the buying demarche with paypal, giving credit card number, e-mail and stuff is annoying and dissuasive.

 

[Anachron]

I think its more that blizzard will give money to them, if they are played as much as DotA, etc.

 

[Hugget Sukker]

He said "money from the players" in the video. Oh, and about the editor, well it's kinda revolutionary I guess. Cool cool.

 

[Kwaliti]

Holy shit! I'm definitely going to get SC2 now!

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

woah woah woah. hold on a sec. lemme get this straight. blizzard is, instead of ripping people off, GIVING people money for a change?
ho. ly. shit.

wait. where is our payment for modding WC!

 

[Anachron]

Maybe blizzard learned by seeing how DotA kept alive the Wc3 Community.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

hmm. good point. without dota, wc probably woulndnt have lasted this long.

 

[Anachron]

I mean, the DotA haters also increased communities teamwork for building better maps and models, which will be used again by DotA, so its a circle that will never end and keeps wc3 alive, aslong as people will hate DotA or like it. If they don't care about DotA, wc3 probably goes down.

 

[PatruX]

I guess developers have learned that mods keep games alive far longer than the game itself does. Just look at DotA for WC3 or CS/DoD/TF for Half-Life.

 

[raid1000]

wow! the starcraft 2 editor looks way more powerfull than wc3 editor
i mean only for the mouse and keyboard support

 

[noob134]

i hope this doesnt mean we have to pay money for custom games, but the editor looks awesome!

 

[Viikuna]

That camera system in that ghost map is crap though.

A smooth camera following mouse movements is something I wanna do. If destructibles had vertex color, we could use them instead of doodads and make them fade out in right time, so there wouldnt be any walls and stuff between ghost and the camera...

It will be pretty cool editor anyways, I guess.

 

[Anachron]

Its funny, you disagree to all and have everytime something that is bad, but you never made anything for public xD lol

 

[Viikuna]

Thats because im a lazy bastard.

But yea, you do got a point.

Ill submit some spell tomorrow. Remind me if I happen to forget.

 

[maskedpoptart]

I think I just jizzed my pants. That lost viking game looks fucking sweet... That's the kind of stuff I want to make.

As for getting paid to make maps, that sounds nice. However, if that means players have to buy maps, I will just make free maps. Who the hell would pay for a map that might turn out to be crap? Not me...

 

[Cyper95]

wow my interest for sc2 just increased by alot

 

[Handycombinder]

O.O Holy Shit O.O

 

[Joss]

Wow you guys. Blizzard making us pay for custom games? Get real.

 

[Karawasa]

Wow you guys. Blizzard making us pay for custom games? Get real.

Who is making you? That's right, the map author. Also, do you have to pay? No! There will be plenty of free maps.

 

[Anachron]

Who is making you? That's right, the map author. Also, do you have to pay? No! There will be plenty of free maps.

Don't be so rough, man. Everywhere your post are soo offensive^^

Well, I doubt many makers will make the map cost something, because
free maps are more played as for those you have to pay.

Maybe a one time pay, I would do that if its not that much.

 

[Joss]

I agree with everything Anachron said.

 

[manstie]

Yes, DotA has allowed blizzard to earn more money, you can notice that when they were doing "DotA specific fixes" in patches.

I say that blizzard should give people money for maps that have increased the players on Battle.net, but not make people pay for maps, because they have already payed for the game. If this is put into action, I would be disappointing with blizzard, and makers if the cost is over $1.
I make Warcraft 3 maps for the fun and learning. I also make them for the appreciation I get from some people for making a fun map.

Still, that editor will be ****ing awesome!
Just, totally amazing.

 

[Gausslander]

Dude. Lost Viking looks badass.

 

[PurplePoot]

Well, I doubt many makers will make the map cost something, because
free maps are more played as for those you have to pay.

And so are free games, right?

Wait, no.

Quality will ultimately determine it.

 

[manstie]

PurplePoot may have a good point. Except for the part where World of Warcraft just takes over peoples minds.

 

[En_Fuego]

imo, make a map for free, then if it gets popular patch it and make it cost.

 

[rcshaggy]

That was interesting, but I heard you have to pay for maps for some reason.

 

[Handycombinder]

That was interesting, but I heard you have to pay for maps for some reason.

You can make a map that costs money, but i don't think that kind of maps will get popular :/

 

[Deuterium]

Fucking SWEET! Man I've never got excited over a game since I was a little kido, but whoa! SC2 World Editing is gonna be freaking good!

 

[RaiN.]

You can make a map that costs money, but i don't think that kind of maps will get popular :/

Thats why you first release a version of the map that is free and when it starts to get popularity you release new patches with more content that cost money and if your map was really great in the first place believe me there will be people that will pay 1-2$ for it

 

[En_Fuego]

You stole my idea.

 

[LordDz]

Let's see how greedy the mapmakers are...

 

[Deuterium]

Well I find it fair that player's get money for their work, but greedy too. If the map is good enough, put up a site for the map, and add advertisements. Then simply adjust it that you need to click on the ad to download the map (so that the player gets payed from the ads corp.) et voila.

Everyone's happy, the creator gets payed, the player gets a free map, and the stupid corp. thinks that someone actually read their add

 

[manstie]

Everyone knows that internet adds are a crock of shit.

 

[viiva]

Does anyone know if it has bridges/platforms you can walk under? and if so, what number of 'floors' you'd be able to make.

 

[Anachron]

As far as I have seen you can only be on ground or under ground.
(So 2 floors)

 

[manstie]

Yes, I hope this editor has that feature, I've always wanted it in Wc3 World Editor.

 

[PurplePoot]

Goddamn, are you people a bunch of reds or something? Why is it "greedy" for someone who wishes to be paid for their work to ask to be paid for their work? It's generally called "a job", and if they deliver you good content then who are you to complain?

 

[Eleandor]

The thing is: the engine is not open-source. Thus, programmers can't make money out of this because they cannot create custom content. I find that highly discriminating towards mapmakers that can't model. This only benefits model & texture makers. In fact, I can't see how they are going to stop people from just ripping models & textures and call them their own. They can't possibly track the origins of every model out there.

 

[PurplePoot]

A bunch of artists with no coders wouldn't get very far into making an interesting project either--the coders would just be using the SCE interface rather than raw C++ (or any other full programming language). Hell, warcraft has shown that art is second to code in such projects as art is reusable but melee gameplay, even in only a few custom maps, is barely if at all. I predict it will remain the same way, as it doesn't matter how cool your models are if you don't have a game.

 

[Deuterium]

PP, I must say all you said make total sense!

@ Eleandor:
Models? Haha the most popular Warcraft 3 (ie DotA) is fully model independent!
It does have "some" models, but it's not like it needs them... they barely make any difference...

The models would just come as "extras".

 

[.Ragnaros]

Owh shiz!!! SC2 Definitely will be mine, lets see how much money I'll gather

 

[Hakeem]

This will significantly affect gamer-parent relations.

 

[Anachron]

Lol! What a nice modbot

Ontopic: Maybe some of the best coders will be able to code for blizzard and earn money with it?

 

[syltman]

Seems sweet, I like how he mentioned alot about the custom UI and the keyboard and mouse support. Becouse he also mentioned about 1/3 being modders of the old modders. I think they brought it up that it's something that was wanted

 

[wereguy2]

Looks pretty cool...

 

[Zhall]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4

 

[SoLmaster]

Sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2 sc2.