Bnet 2.0 Explained: The Logic Behind Blizzard's BS

Chat channels vs group chat/party chat/clan chat/getting laid chat (call it w/e you want)

Let's think of what was their thinking, how it affects the game and players as a whole and how we can relay it back to the micro transactions.

First of all, with the old battle.net, one would enter battle.net and get spammed for the first 1 minute about bots/hacks/sex and so on and then would move on to a private channel or an official blizzard channel.

In battle 2.0, one enters and there is no bots/hacks/sex ( yay) and has access to his real / pseudo name friends list. People can make parties and groups and can join games together. cool.

So when the user gets in battle 2.0 initially vs battle net 1.0, the spam is gone. Nicely done blizzard (although i didn't care about that in the first place).

Now let's move on something more serious concerning chat channels. In bnet1, you can easily meet new people just by going to popular channels and just playing random games vs people without having to be a ladder game, which was honestly really fun after playing ladder games.

In bnet2, after joining a game, you can add all the people in the party and eventually be able to play with them. The main difference between the two is that the first one is much more convenient.

Now let's talk about tournaments and use of these 2 chat systems. In bnet 1, you tell people to join a channel at a certain time and as long as you have the channel name username, you can easily reinforce banning and take control of the situation. (we already know all of this)

In bnet 2, you need to get everybody's emails. contact them, get them to add you, add them then you can sort of monitor the gamers, but it's hard to do that since as a tournament organizer, you do not have the POWER to control these things. But wait, bnet 2 tell us that they are going to implement a way to actually host a tournament really easily... cool So that might actually help out and make life easier. HOWEVER, you must pay them Blizzard, also if certain maps are made "premium" players will have to pay for them. As such, organizers must choose non premium maps, which is fine. I don't think(hope) they will make melee maps premium.

Now let's go back to what I said earlier, micro transactions. By not giving the customer an easy way of communicating with one another, blizzard has essentially forced organizers to USE their new "tournament organization system" and forced a microtransaction. Which means that blizzard in a certain way, created an artificial way of making money through this means. Moreover, if they really wanted to be underhanded, they can probably force players to paying a certain fee to make a tournament and for the maps ( doubt it - but why not... go micro transactions!)

More about chat, I can find other ways that blizzard can make money off chat 2.0 like charging for something like awards when clans want to be official clans on bnet 2.0 and have their name on the website or something (sounds ridiculous? It's possible).

Now let's move on to the map system, by having premium maps paid for, blizzard can essentially play the role as middle man and make money off maps made by the public with a fraction of the money going to the map makers. I don't even know if this is legal but essentially they are creating artificial employment and can essentially start EXPLOITING kids and teenagers for their time while giving them 20-30$ a month (This might sound crazy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened)

As you can see, in a certain way, blizzard is justifying the micro transactions by having the customer involved and promising customers some money for making maps.

People are cheering that mapmakers are getting the credit they deserve and getting paid for it I'm not a mapmaker but I highly doubt that doing this is good, I think mapmakers would prefer it if they can just make a map and possibly associate it to their account (a link or just a mention of the maps the person created) and possibly also on the official sc2 map website ( i think it's still sclegacy or something).

I have a couple of ideas on how they can make even more money, but I won't mention it because to be honest, fuck their "great" innovative ideas. The game is great sure, but I honestly miss the flying shots or w/e you call them, they brought something to the game that sc2 will never bring and that is honestly very sad