I sound like a crazy person when I say this but like half of the changes from SC1 to SC2 were my idea lol. I really wanted to see SC2 but he was like, "how would we change it enough to be a new game" and I was just listing stuff off for literal days. It was so surreal when the game came out because it felt like I had somehow spoken it into existence. Of course I didn't have anything to do with the storyline, single-player campaign, world-building, and stuff like that.
I'm pretty sure my friend pitched them all as his idea and leveraged his career a bit, which is fine obviously, as the ideas were worthless without someone to pitch and implement them. He's been retired for a while now... wonder how he's doin.
We also talked about D3 a lot (making custom resource pools like League of Legends / WOW did) and I even pitched the pilot idea for Overwatch (an upgraded version of Team Fortress with custom heroes).
Haha, yeah, that's a pretty big brag for some stranger on the Internet! :) Still pretty cool though, the specific details make it more than believable for me.
yeah i was going to start listing them but refrained
there might even be evidence that it happened on some long-lost archive server
I remember I sent him an email with one of the ideas: "it would be really cool if there was an upgrade for something like a zergling to move while burrowed". So he emails me back and says, "they didn't like that idea". Fair enough. Game comes out and TWO units can move while burrowed. I was like lol wtf. Did it need to be someone else's idea after denying the first pitch? Was my friend bullshitting me? I have no idea haha.
Haha, it's funny how stuff like that happens isn't it? Like I said, I don't feel like you would take the time to create that level of detail if you were just making it up, so you have totally convinced me!
Sometimes I actually feel like I'm gaslighting myself because it was so long ago.
Did I actually come up with all those ideas?
I'm looking through my email right now... there is actually a little bit of evidence there lol.
Nice, also how cool that you got a Hearthstone Beta key!
Oh man you don't even know... he got us all free tickets to Blizcon one year and I ended up getting two Starcraft 2 beta keys. They were selling for $300 on day one Craigslist. Price went down fast after that but... people were paying $300 to play. Insanity.
Wow, that is crazy!