Who supports their games as well as Blizzard?

[QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"]Vavle has BETTERRR support than blizz by FAARRR!!! They give out amazing amounts of free content to customers, Blizz is charging for everything. SC2 in 3 parts, maybe a monthly fee for Bnet... etc.dnuggs40

[QUOTE="RK-Mara"]Even Blizzard isn't perfect. Selling expansion packs for an MMO with 10 million subscribers is just wrong. The money they make every month should be enough to release all of that and more as free updates. Agent_Kaliaver

[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"]Valve > Blizzard in the support development. Blizzard keeps patching their games, sure, but Valve brings in the free content updates. Valve wins.Myrkan

Blizzard releases free content as well. Although it really only appeals to a very specific group of people that play the game, I'm one of them, but everyone can get into the new TF2 content easily, so I'd have to agree there.

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"][QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"]Vavle has BETTERRR support than blizz by FAARRR!!! They give out amazing amounts of free content to customers, Blizz is charging for everything. SC2 in 3 parts, maybe a monthly fee for Bnet... etc.Dr_Brocoli

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"][QUOTE="Dr_Brocoli"]Vavle has BETTERRR support than blizz by FAARRR!!! They give out amazing amounts of free content to customers, Blizz is charging for everything. SC2 in 3 parts, maybe a monthly fee for Bnet... etc.Dr_Brocoli

[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"]Valve > Blizzard in the support development. Blizzard keeps patching their games, sure, but Valve brings in the free content updates. Valve wins.Myrkan

Blizzard releases free content as well. Although it really only appeals to a very specific group of people that play the game, I'm one of them, but everyone can get into the new TF2 content easily, so I'd have to agree there.

Massive Entertainment does. At least 5 new maps for WiC had come out as long as tons of balancing patches and some preformace patches, despite the lacking community.

Such a shame.

Wasdie

[QUOTE="bdever32"][QUOTE="dnuggs40"] There is no monthly fee for b.net, but they are discussing monetizing some features. Also, last time I checked Half Life 2's full story isn't included in one game...how's EPISODE 3 coming along? lol...dnuggs40

yes but you see blizzard neglects there games man thats another fine reason they cant win. would u like to know the last time diablo1 got a patch ill tell you 1999! its been beaten and exploited so bad it hurts its a hackers chat room now and diablo 2 is quickly falling its predecessors footsteps, and blizzard hasnt dont a god damn thing about it. warcraft 2 hasnt changed either wheres the love for that hmm? bah there no better than microsoft game studio or rare post n64.

[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"][QUOTE="Erlkoenig"] You're forgetting the 3 heroes Blizzard added over the past couple years. L4D? Don't make me laugh. The game was very lacking in content for its price at release. People besides the fanboys would raise hell if Valve charged $ for this coming update. So no, Valve does not > Blizzard. Both are good at supporting their games, but Blizzard's got quite a few frequent haters around here. weirjf

TF2 is still getting content releases... content that should have been incuded ON RELEASE DAY, not YEARS after release at their current rate. I still remember the pod cast interview before release stating that there would be no grenades except demoman and pyro (and pyro apparently got ganked) but they would have weapon unlocks to make up for it. So essentially these aren't content releases, they are just taking forever to fix their game by fixing one class every 8-9 months and breaking other stuff as a result.

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[QUOTE="GodLovesDead"] I didn't find L4D lacking in content at all. Try Orange Box. Try TF2. TF2 is still getting content updates. 3 heroes? Woopty doo.GodLovesDead

TF2 is still getting content releases... content that should have been incuded ON RELEASE DAY, not YEARS after release at their current rate. I still remember the pod cast interview before release stating that there would be no grenades except demoman and pyro (and pyro apparently got ganked) but they would have weapon unlocks to make up for it. So essentially these aren't content releases, they are just taking forever to fix their game by fixing one class every 8-9 months and breaking other stuff as a result.

I think we as PC gamers are fortunate to have both of these developers focusing on the PC..even though valve is technically multiplay they are PC devs and I am happying to have both around to entertain me

[QUOTE="dnuggs40"][QUOTE="bdever32"] HL2's full story is in the game. Have you ever heard of a sequel? I guess Starcraft's full story wasn't in the game because they are making Starcraft 2? Plus they aren't charging $50 for each episode so I don't see what you're going on about here. The episodes together are basically HL3 as said by Valve before. They are just releasing it in a different manner. aura_enchanted

yes but you see blizzard neglects there games man thats another fine reason they cant win. would u like to know the last time diablo1 got a patch ill tell you 1999! its been beaten and exploited so bad it hurts its a hackers chat room now and diablo 2 is quickly falling its predecessors footsteps, and blizzard hasnt dont a god damn thing about it. warcraft 2 hasnt changed either wheres the love for that hmm? bah there no better than microsoft game studio or rare post n64.

Ignorance on a epic scale.

Diablo II, for instance, received content after release, and has been patched years after release. New items, rune words, updates to ladder, ect.

Here is Diablo 1's patch history:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21119

Warcraft II patch history:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?articleId=21361

And you have to remember, Diablo cam out a long time ago when multiplayer was still young, and battlenet was pretty revolutionary for it's time. Aura, you seriously say some of the most rediculous stuff on this site. Blizzard certainly does not "neglect" their games...that statement is fail on a massive scale.

Personally, I think if we look at this on a "what have you done for me lately" basis, Valve certainly comes out ahead by a good margine in added freebies. No doubt about it. Major kudos to Valve! But what you are trying to push, which is Blizzard "neglecting their games" is total rubish, and you know it.

ascaron does with the sacred seriesjohan1986