19.08.2012

Replays Replays Replays

Today I stumbled across a new replaysite that may not be used as much as drop.sc did but it basically has all the same features and goodies. - sc2replays.eu -
The fact that I was not able to share my newest replays in "real time" (by using drop.sc) was really demotivating 'cause I really do enjoy uploading games I thought of as being sick or even educational. The fact that drop.sc demanded (or is still demanding) 2.500$ in order to "fix their servers" seemed a little bit fishy. Several times people posted on /r/starcraft that drop.sc needed to be helped out. People like ROOTDestiny ensured their help as soon as drop.sc would be revealing an what would be happening with the money as soon as it reaches drop.sc and in terms of them assuring us that a bankrupt would not be happening again (click for particular redditthreat). (so they are not trying to get donations again in half a year or even a shorter frequency)
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Somehow the concern of drop.sc just trying to get alot of money was still inside of alot of peoples head so they did not bother to spend money on drop.sc leaving them in a rough spot (not being able to extend the capacity of their servers and therefore not being able to provide drop.sc any longer)
Long story short - drop.sc is still down demanding donations in order to run properly.





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It was really hard to find something quite comparable to drop.sc but I finally managed to find one through (also) /r/starcraft. It does not have the function of "drag and drop(.sc)" but it's still pretty great website.
It's a "subpage" of the aAa (against All authorities) clanwebsite therefore being more reliable in terms of funding and organisation as supposed to the drop.sc organisation.
Besides that the new site is also more advanced than the drop.sc at draining informations from replays. If you upload a replay you are provided with two graphs indicating your APM throughout the game and the Armyvalue graph furthermore the sides is displaying the buildorders of both players, the average APM and the percentage of population built (eg.: 70% Zerglings | 10% Infesotrs | 5% Banelings). An uploaded replay also allows you to link a video (a casted version of your game) to that replay. External links to the battle.net profile are directly accesable in the replay. The only deficit in comparison to drop.sc is the not existing account data. (eg.: http://drop.sc/players/EU/1427209/Myu)
You can only search for the name and if you are having a short name like Myu (search for "Myu") it's just displaying names with the letters MYU in it (eg.: NOMYuvalShot is one of the ) therefore not collecting replaydata like drop.sc did but it's not that big of a flaw.

In the end I decided to upload all of my replays to both sides but manely to www.sc2replays.eu and therefore not leaving drop.sc completely (hoping that) maybe they are going to be able to fix their website and their debts. I am really sad that drop.sc had to (basically) end like this. No funding means no time being put in to the project. The basic upload function still works but the rest is buggy because the staff isn't able to fix those problems anymore.

Myu

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