22nd August 2010, 11:04 PM
Once I found out that they do NOT let you save maps in the custom map maker to your own hard disk (except in the form of a caching file), I realized that they really dropped the ball. I really don't mind if their own online hosting system has those restrictions so long as I can just keep my copyright ignoring personal maps on my own system and play them with friends or just online with a "trading" system just like in SC1 and WC3. Unfortunately, that's gone, as is LAN. Yes, it's a big mistake. It is one that will always be fixable via a patch. It remains to be seen if Blizzard will provide that patch, or if some 3rd party will need to step up to do so, but it will eventually be fixed one way or another.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)