GameSpy: What kind of feedback are you getting back from the pro players?
Dustin Browder: One of the big issues is the tension between micro-managing units and macro-managing your economy. We've made some changes to the UI to allow you to do multiple building selection, and to basically select an unlimited number of units. A lot of the very hardcore players are concerned about multiple-building selection because they think it reduces skill. Now I can go back and double-click on my barracks, select all five of my barracks, and build a marine. Before you'd have to click marine, marine, marine, marine across the entire base.
At the same time, we want to give what is now a fairly standard RTS interface to a lot of players. There's a lot of low-skill and medium-skill level players who will get a lot of value out of this. But we understand it's reducing the difficulty for the pros. We're still working on that balance. What we've done with the micro, is that we've added a lot of unit selection, but there's not a lot of concern about that because we've added more micro gameplay.
The Stalkers, Banelings, the Roaches, they aren't just attack-move units, and they require you to manage these units in an efficient way to get the most out of them. The macro play hasn't really caught up on that yet. You still build your base in basically the same way, and we've made it easier, so that's one of the concerns of the pro community. It's not the hard StarCraft that we know and love. That's a real challenge for us.
I know something they don't know, though, and that's that the game is really hard. I've been playing this game for the last year and a half, and I learn something new every day. Things change every day, but I learn new skills as a player, and when I play with some of these pro guys, there's just no way I'm going to beat these guys, they're just better than me. They're a little nervous about the loss of skill, but I don't think they should be.
One of the really interesting things about the original StarCraft was the tension between micro and macro gameplay. Which one do you do, and which one are you better at? Players that are really good at macro could sometimes overwhelm players that are just good at micro. You could find your place on the scale, if you were good at micro, or good at macro, or somewhere in the middle. If we make macro too easy to do, we lose some of that tension, and then it becomes more like WarCraft, and it'll be all about the micro to determine player skill. We still want that tension between strategy and tactics.
In StarCraft, you had five things to do, and time for two. If you have five things to do, and time for three or four, maybe that's not as good a game? We'll see.
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