crazy mapmakers!

crazy mapmakers!

some people want to make a game, so they retreat to their basement, where hours, and even days are wasted creating the "one thing" that wc3 needs, the desire to be idolized by all fuels this passion, at the beginning, this was just a fun thing for you to do, creating a game that YOU actually think is fun, but the strive to make it better starts a new passion, creating many maps, so days, weeks, and months you go without seeing any sign of life, your obsession, and only purpose is to spam the custom game list with "new map!!! join!!!" while a very tiny % of them are rehosted by other ppl.

Very true. If you want your map to be hosted create a "LOAP OMGGGGG MAJOR HAXX"

'Tis the sad, sad truth.

Welcome to life, thats the same with everything, even art.

Reminds me, I need to get a scanner and get my better art up on Wc3Sear.ch sometime... but I doubt it'll be soon. (It'll happen when WoW becomes F2P.)

Scary but true, at least one of the maps i made is starting to become well known

It's teh Dotrix(Dota) Dota must die...

Europa! Shogun! Fate of Britain! Rise of China!

I've put quite some time into a few maps, and then try to expose them online, usually with ok result.

There's nothing wrong with hosting your own maps, how else are you supposed to get it out there? Of course, if your maps look like they took 5-10 minutes to make and you think you're genious and revolutionary, that's another matter. I've always tried to be realistic and objective.

The problem I encountered was that few people seemed to understand basic English, or they thought they're too leet to read the (1)loading screen, (2)into text, (3)quest, AND (4)explainations from me/allies.
Made me want to cry from pity.