Zerox
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Hey everyone I just wanted to know how you all felt about map protecting seen as you are fell map makers. :thup:
My thoughts:
As far as map protectors go. I despise the things. Just overall. If you accidently use it on your only version of your map and you don't have it backed up anywhere you can tell your map goodbye as far as updating it goes. And B. I think its cruel to people who would like to learn from your map. To some just learning how you made something work is just as much (if not more) fun than playing the map itself. And by using a map protector you make them never have the chance. Unless you lead them to the darkside of map unprotecting. (Note to anyone who reads this don't unprotect protected maps it was the persons choice to put it there even if it may seem rude or dumb.) And if the person went all the way to try to unprotect a map. What would stop them for just trying to be malicious and claim its theres after some modification.
Now granted DoTA does need map protection it being the most well known map in warcraft. I do not despise them for protecting it because they are protecting the community of warcraft by doing so. While yes it takes away the chance to learn it stops the hundreds of people who would modify DoTA to make them have a godly hero or built in cheats or what ever. So in DoTA's case I think its justified. But in most cases I find it sad that someone would feel that way so much that they would stop any chance of learning.
I myself never personallly protect my maps just because of the way I feel towards general map protecting. Besides there are many many people who may download your map that can't even host on battle.net so the odds are yet again low that someone would claim it theirs.
Okay I think I've said too much already and I doubt anyone will read all that. >.>
My thoughts:
As far as map protectors go. I despise the things. Just overall. If you accidently use it on your only version of your map and you don't have it backed up anywhere you can tell your map goodbye as far as updating it goes. And B. I think its cruel to people who would like to learn from your map. To some just learning how you made something work is just as much (if not more) fun than playing the map itself. And by using a map protector you make them never have the chance. Unless you lead them to the darkside of map unprotecting. (Note to anyone who reads this don't unprotect protected maps it was the persons choice to put it there even if it may seem rude or dumb.) And if the person went all the way to try to unprotect a map. What would stop them for just trying to be malicious and claim its theres after some modification.
Now granted DoTA does need map protection it being the most well known map in warcraft. I do not despise them for protecting it because they are protecting the community of warcraft by doing so. While yes it takes away the chance to learn it stops the hundreds of people who would modify DoTA to make them have a godly hero or built in cheats or what ever. So in DoTA's case I think its justified. But in most cases I find it sad that someone would feel that way so much that they would stop any chance of learning.
I myself never personallly protect my maps just because of the way I feel towards general map protecting. Besides there are many many people who may download your map that can't even host on battle.net so the odds are yet again low that someone would claim it theirs.
Okay I think I've said too much already and I doubt anyone will read all that. >.>