[justice]

Originally Posted by Cute

Yeah, I was freaking out about this too since I got friends from out of town and stuff coming. But justice replied with this in another thread (I think he works at EB?)



But yeah, the staff at the store were really misleading ><

Yeah, a lot of them are forgetting that this is primarily a Blizzard run event to promote the game, it'd be completely silly to not allow spectators.

[Maynarde]

Originally Posted by FvRphoneheha

Guys, I just made my preorder purchase at EB Swanston. The staff told me without a Midnight Release receipt, people wouldn't be allowed into the venue. Can anyone confirm this?! I feel as if this isn't what everyone is prepared for

Everyone is allowed into the venue!

[SLCN.Petrify]

Oh shit, I preordered mine at EB and didn't know I had to tell them that I was attending launch event -.-

[ACL VaNzR]

Originally Posted by ToRPetrify

Oh shit, I preordered mine at EB and didn't know I had to tell them that I was attending launch event -.-

Just give them a ring, not too late .

See you all there!

[SLCN.Petrify]

Originally Posted by ACL VaNzR

Just give them a ring, not too late .

See you all there!

Gave em a ring, had to head in the store and got it sorted, today was the last day, phew.

[Paladin]

My place of work received our HOTS copies today, boy does it look good!

SO excited!

[TAXanT]

Is it too late to pre-order a copy at EB to collect it at the event?

Edit: All good, sorted

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

I REALLY REALLY wish someone from the event bothered to check the stream chat, the volume has been too high, too low, out of sync and now I've just muted it because its actually ruining the event.

If someone bothered to look they would see how many people are finding these issues!!!!!!!!

[Pandan]

This stream gave me kidney cancer.

I feel so bad for Maynarde having to polish this turd, his co-caster is quite bad and the general venue setup looks cheap and players are telling me they can clearly hear commentary :S

[chlippry]

my only issue with the steam is the odd lag spike, every few minutes sometimes its for up to 10 seconds, but its not that often and seems to be stablizing now

Quick Comments

Pandan:

I'm not having any LAG spikes - what's coming through is smooth for me. Just don't like whats coming through...

[MushiTheCat]

This is exactly why australia isnt big for E-Sports events because events are ran as poorly as this. The best events to watch on the sea scene are done by 1-2 people. this has a team + a few blizzard people im pretty sure and its extremely poor.
I feel sorry for the casters and players..


Had to link twitters to people twice ;______;

Quick Comments

Pandan:

Worst is, I think Blizzard paid people to run this 'local lan' quality event :(

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

Do you have sound on your computer? Or are you wearing iron mans helmet cause shit a brick my ears are in PAIN

From the stream chat:

Shandragan: man i am so disappoint with the aus stream. horrid audio quality and the crowd isnt pumped at all, so dead there.

Billbill123: why zoom in when the stream is on 540p haha which pixel is zerg?

etc etc, noone from the event seems to care.

[chlippry]

yah ive got sound, running through my headset. the casting isnt loud for me, but when they yell i notice it lol

[Maynarde]

In regards to concerns (mainly Pandans) it was a sick set up man I'm not sure what was cheap about it.

Also yes, the players could hear us we all knew this was gonna be the case before starting and no body cared. It was a series of show matches where nothing was on the line and everyone was just having fun, I spoke to all the players personally as well and they all really enjoyed themselves.

Regarding the crowd and that fellow from streamchats concerns. Ahhhhh stream chat is always a good feedback source between people spamming "LAG" and "LOL BRONZ PLAYER SO BAD LOLOLOL". The crowd was absolutely amazing. They exceeded my expectations as well. They went NUTS during the show matches, laughed at jokes and really cheered hard even for the cosplay section which only 4 people entered. Maybe this was a case of lack of crowd mic again, but I assure you with zero embellishment the AT LEAST 700 people were really a treat.

I had a bunch of really excited people come up to me and tell me how pumped they were for the future of our country's SC2 scene, and a few people who have only started getting into it recently who really enjoyed themselves and asked me where they can get more. It was really heart warming

I obviously didn't get to see the stream, this is literally the only place I've seen negative feedback. Friends from home said they didn't have issues, maybe they have lower standards I don't know. I overheard some venue hardware problems made it difficult on the night for JB and his team, who besides him weren't the same team from ACL and WCS. This is hardly their fault, shit happens, a shame none the less.

So yeah, would be very surprised to see any negative testimonies from people that attended. I can assure you the crowd, vibe and set up was really well done. The people involved worked really hard and it felt great. Cheers for feedback peeps!

[Flamga]

I mirror what Maynarde has said. Personally the audience was pretty amazing. The whole audience being quiet thing is the same as WCS due to having no mics pointed their way. Our mics need to be quote close so hearing them on those is quite something.

And Pandan your are entitled to your own opinion but for myself could you at least provide positive criticism. A lot of people at the event were quite impressed with both myself and maynardes commentary.

[syfChadMann]

hmm.. I think I agree with many of the comments. I know from being at WCS and hearing the crowd, then watching the VODs and not hearing the crowd that these things aren't picked up by the stream mics. Perhaps a crowd mic would help?

Also, I understand that there may very well have been hardware restrictions at the event, but the sound and at times video quality was horrible. . So I understand everyones concerns. But oh well, they did what they could with the resources available. When Australia gets NBN - it will be totally different. Maynarde and Flamga were fine casters - only feed back I'd give is they have a very similar narrative and hype style. There was some analysis - but I guess in the fun HotS show match environment analysis wasn't really needed. The new features were covered really well and casters we're fine. Only draw back was the similar style and repetition in the things each of you said. But that was no biggy.

Good job everyone. I haven't picked up my copy yet, hopefully this afternoon... Excited to get into the campaign. iaguz has already beat it on brutal! from him, there is about 9 hours play time with amazing cinematics etc.. so I'm pretty keen to get stuck into this!! ^_^

[Flamga]

That's pretty much its Chaddman, its also a bit harder as we haven't had many times to work together but I feel we did pretty good. As for the limitations I believe PJ said that fed square promised good quality connection and then didn't deliver on it.

But thank you very much will keep that in mind

[Bugalugs McScruffin]

Originally Posted by FlashFlamga

As for the limitations I believe PJ said that fed square promised good quality connection and then didn't deliver on it.

It was probably a good quality connection, for anything other than streaming. Hopefully people start realising what a good quality connection actually is.

[SLCN.Kez]

From being there, the crowd was pretty good and there was a LOT of people. The casters were easily audible and yes the players could hear what was going on, which I thought was funny at first, but that implies this is a serious cut throat tournament with lots of prize money and prestige on the line. Which it is NOT. It's a freaking show match put on to entertain the crowd and show off the new units and skins etc. I don't know what stream was like, but honestly, let's not castrate people because the stream wasn't perfect. Also have to echo what maynarde said, stream chat is possibly the most retarded place on the planet. There isn't enough salt in the world to take with what stream chat says.

[iM SundeR]

I was there, I didn't watch the stream so I can't comment on commentary levels, but the atmosphere and overall production value of the event was awesome. They had background music playing at all the right levels when things were getting hectic in game and the general mood of the ground was very enthusiastic.

Both Maynarde and Flamga were working VERY hard to be the best they could be on the right. Maynarde was a righteous host and Flamga was working so hard to meet everyone's expectations. Cut him some slack, jesus. Blizzard wanted people to show up to the live event primarily. Stream numbers and quality are second to a live spectacle when there are launch parties around the world.

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