TheSkunk_2

Question 1: In Blizzcon 2009 you guys announced plans for the Map Marketplace, where players could "sell premium maps" on the market place. Early 2011 you said that you were "struggling" with making the map market place. Now, nearly 4 years since you announced the Map Marketplace -- Presumable you haven't given up on the idea entirely; how close is it to becoming a reality? Can you share any more details about how it'll work?

Question 2: Several times, Blizzard has mentioned adding support for custom campaigns -- the ability to actually link one map to the other, so when you finish a mission it brings you to the next like Blizzards own campaign. Do you still have plans\ETA to add this?

Question 3: In the HotS FAQ you guys stated "As far as Battle.net improvements, our primary focus will be on further improving the arcade experience around the launch of Heart of the Swarm, following on the heels of the significant overhaul in patch 1.5.0." -- past the 1.5.0 improvements, the Arcade changes have been extremely minor compared to the rest of the Battle.net changes. Can you tell us a little bit about what you where referring to in that statement?

Thanks for answering!

I agree. We did a ton of changes to the rest of the UI and modifications to Aracade were relative minor relative to the 1.5 patch. I don't think we delivered on the promise in this FAQ.

I guess my question was kind of; do you still have plans to improve the arcade post-release or has it just been indefinitely pushed back?

Question 1: Where there any people, posts, or topics that were especially helpful feedback for you during the beta? (Even if you didn’t get the chance to act on it yet)

Question 2: Have you considering implementing some sort of survey or poll into Battle.net itself to gather feedback directly from all of the playerbase?

Question 3: During the beta, you guys had a "eSports Beta Feedback" forum for professional players and casters. Was this helpful, and do you plan to keep it open after HotS releases and continue to expand access to it? Post in it yourselves more frequently?

We can do some polls, but they will never represent the entire community since so few people relative to the size of our player base actually visits the forums. =(

Yea, I know so few people (relative to the size of the player base) visit the forums -- my point was, what if you integrated this into the game itself? So when someone logs into Starcraft they can respond to the poll? This way you could reach the entire player base.

Question 1: Do you have any plans for a Battle.net\Content patch post-HotS release? (Prior to LotV -- say, ~4 months after release) If so, can you tell us what you hope to improve\add in such an update?

Question 2: How high on the list of things to add is in-game tournament observing? Dota 2 has this option. For tournament spectators, this means the ability to:

• You can select any of several audio streams by different broadcasters for a given event
• Watch the tournaments observer camera or move the camera yourself; similarly access production panel and the like independently from the observer.
• Watch all of the action in higher quality using less bandwidth

As I'm sure you can imagine, this has massive advantages for Blizzard, Spectators, and Tournaments. While I'm sure it would be one of the most technically challenging features to add; I believe it would be throughout worth the development time.

So; my question: Is this a definite goal for Blizzard, or just another "think we'd like, but may never do" on a long list?

Question 3: For each aspect of the game\each member of the team, what changes that you where unable to accomplish in the HotS beta are you most disappointed about? (Sad you couldn't change the Corruptor? Disappointed a certain Battle.net feature wasn't able to be fleshed out more? etc.)