EPTWill you buy SC2 or pretend you won't but then buy it anyw…
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Axonn
Croatia288 Posts
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Snowfield
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EleanorRIgby
Canada3923 Posts
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Chained
United States137 Posts
Will Buy it Boycott (heh) Will wait and see Im not going to say 95% of the people "boycotting" will end up buying it, but 95% are just waiting and seeing. And the other 5% never planned on buying it anyways. I know personally, Ill be buying it. I still have a faith it will be fixed, Im not going to rely on it, but I have enough friends who I know will buy it, and will buy it just to have fun. Also, its ridiculous. Im all for not supporting something you dont like, but doing things like, Openly saying youll pirate the game, calling Bnet 2.0 "0.2" or making stupid pictures, do you guys really think Blizzard will take that as a valid complaint? Its a 5 year old's reaction.... "Youre stupid" "YA WELL YOUR STUPIDEST". I mean seriously? Im just speaking from my own reactions, and quite frankly, Im going to take a well written response over people saying "Im going to pirate the game because Bnet 0.2 is stupid" And really the more people that do it, the more I would take the real criticism lightly... Im all for complaining, but personally, be smart about it, or just shutup | ||
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Kafkaesk
Germany140 Posts
That's just bullshit. | ||
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Deleted User 47542
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green.at
Austria1459 Posts
On June 09 2010 03:49 superbabosheki wrote: Buy it, give it a one star rating. and then shoot yourself in the foot? i like the game -> i buy the game | ||
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LimeNade
United States2125 Posts
On June 08 2010 19:24 killercheebo wrote: Poll: Will you buy or boycott StarCraft 2? Buy (1065) Boycott (308) 1373 total votes Your vote: Will you buy or boycott StarCraft 2? I myself also "used to be" a blizzard fan, playing all of the games they have ever released (sc bw, d2, wc3, wow, etc). http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128252 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128014 I've read numerous threads on TL which complained the way blizzard is taking, and their overall policies. I read all of the blue posts, and all of the interviews with the developers. However, none of these are surprising or are anything new to me. I played WoW for years until latest expansions and personally experienced the way blizzard handles things and their policies toward WoW playerbase. They never listen to the community, unless it is a suggestion that can generate them more money. Of all the suggestions and proposed balance changes players posted on forums, only suggestions they accepted were things like paid name change service, paid character server transfer, in game mounts that cost $20, etc. I was able to foresee the direction the B.net 0.2 will be taking ever since they forced WoW players into merging their accounts to a new "battle.net account". New b.net 0.2 is exactly like how WoW or other MMORPG servers work. Its definately very un-RTS like. Things like regional locking, "characters (lol?)", parties (SC2 =/= RPG), and achievements (direct ripoff from WoW). I repeat, SC2 is an RTS, not an MMO like WoW. Even their new matchmaking system is completely taken from WoW's arena matchmaking system, which became worse in latest expansion, by the way. Blizzard believes that since WoW made them so much cash, turning SC2 into another WoW would yield them more money. In fact, one of the probable reasons why they are incorporating so much WOW bullshit into SC2 is to attract their vast reservoir of WOW gamers into buying SC2. Remember that tauren marine april fools joke? And lot of the units (roaches, stalker, immortal, etc) looks like those nerubian WC3 / WOW units. Blizzard did say they will add things like chat rooms in the future. However, I know for 100% sure that there will be NO LAN in this game. There will also be no cross-regional play, since that is completely incompatible with how the new B.net 0.2 works. Afterall, blizzard wants customers to buy one copy of the game for each of the regions. I myself have a US and EU realm WoW accounts, and they're completely separate and incompatible with one another. Therefore, don't expect any significant change for B.net 0.2 as it was in beta, except for addition of chat rooms. Only other differences will be that there will be bunch of extra "paid" features. In fact, they even stated that they planned on monetizing on player-made custom maps. Plus Blizz has reputation of taking months fix even simplest bugs in WoW. Rogue's vanish has been bugged since 2006 and still never been fixed. Overall, 2008 and onwards blizzard has transformed into another EA like company that nickel dimes the gamers and neglect them completely pretty much. This is why I am going to boycott SC2 and all of the future blizzard products (D3, WoW-cataclysm, etc). P.S. i will only buy this game if they add LAN and cross server play. By the way, sign this LAN petition (over 250,000 sigs so far) http://www.PetitionOnline.com/LANSC2/ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=126834 made a very similar post about this a bit ago | ||
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Skeyser
Canada219 Posts
[B]On June 08 2010 19:24 killercheebo wrote:Overall, 2008 and onwards blizzard has transformed into another EA like company that nickel dimes the gamers and neglect them completely pretty much. This is why I am going to boycott SC2 and all of the future blizzard products (D3, WoW-cataclysm, etc). This is so wrong, comparing Blizzard to fucking EA. Last time I checked Blizzard are still delivering AAA games. | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5871 Posts
On June 09 2010 03:39 Chained wrote: Really the Poll should of been Will Buy it Boycott (heh) Will wait and see Im not going to say 95% of the people "boycotting" will end up buying it, but 95% are just waiting and seeing. And the other 5% never planned on buying it anyways. I know personally, Ill be buying it. I still have a faith it will be fixed, Im not going to rely on it, but I have enough friends who I know will buy it, and will buy it just to have fun. Also, its ridiculous. Im all for not supporting something you dont like, but doing things like, Openly saying youll pirate the game, calling Bnet 2.0 "0.2" or making stupid pictures, do you guys really think Blizzard will take that as a valid complaint? Its a 5 year old's reaction.... "Youre stupid" "YA WELL YOUR STUPIDEST". I mean seriously? Im just speaking from my own reactions, and quite frankly, Im going to take a well written response over people saying "Im going to pirate the game because Bnet 0.2 is stupid" And really the more people that do it, the more I would take the real criticism lightly... Im all for complaining, but personally, be smart about it, or just shutup Well, your analysis is wrong. I intended to buy it but will definitely not buy it unless they fix most of the issues. | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
StarCraft II is shaping up to be a good interesting game, if it happens to not have the required features, players sure as hell will find out to how to make stuff happen, then you'll get pirated servers registered in Laos, eventually resulting in iCCup 2.0: a service that will be offering a multi-regional play, better ladder system, all the communicational features, regularly updated and modified map pools, more or less decent counter-abuse measures and everything you expect from the game of this caliber, - and all of that without "Blizzard must be notified of any commercial and sponsored tournament" and "All personal information can be shared by Blizzard..." and so on. | ||
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HTFU
Ireland1 Post
http://www.full-metal-jacket.net/dzcp/inc/tinymce_files/modern_warfare_2_boykott.jpg | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
On June 09 2010 04:05 HTFU wrote: Wait a minute, I've seen that before. http://www.full-metal-jacket.net/dzcp/inc/tinymce_files/modern_warfare_2_boykott.jpg Wait no Ive seen that before http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/15/call-of-duty-black-ops-to-feature-dedicated-pc-servers/ | ||
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Skeyser
Canada219 Posts
On June 09 2010 04:06 Archerofaiur wrote: Wait no Ive seen that before http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/15/call-of-duty-black-ops-to-feature-dedicated-pc-servers/ You can't compare no dedicated servers to no lan or chat rooms. No dedicated servers on a PC shooter is the most retarded thing possible, it's the equivalent of making it so you can't make custom games in SC. | ||
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Jalex
United Kingdom35 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
There are many valid reasons to boycott Starcraft 2. The present lack of chat channels for one.The ones the OP presents are terrible. I'd just like to point out calling Blizzard "Blizzard Activision" is blatant sensationalism. Blizzard Entertainment is an independent subsidiary of "Activision Blizzard". It would be as illogical and irrelevent as calling "Activision Blizzard" "Vivendi SA". | ||
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Takkara
United States2503 Posts
- If people like it it's "the developer caves to community pressure" - If people hate it it's "the developer just ignores it's customers" Sometimes the community both understates and overstates it's power. You can bring items to the top of Blizz's docket, but you can't force them to change their mind. It's not that we don't have power, but we don't get to design their games. Sometimes we do come up with good ideas that they end up liking and using, but we can't force them to do something they don't want to do just to "shut us up." | ||
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shalafi
394 Posts
I'm interested in SC2 as much as in DoW2 or CoH. I'll buy it on the first price drop. | ||
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Lugus
United States22 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
However, none of these are surprising or are anything new to me. I played WoW for years until latest expansions and personally experienced the way blizzard handles things and their policies toward WoW playerbase. They never listen to the community, unless it is a suggestion that can generate them more money. Of all the suggestions and proposed balance changes players posted on forums, only suggestions they accepted were things like paid name change service, paid character server transfer, in game mounts that cost $20, etc. Every single change we see today is the result of listening to the community. Perhaps what you mean is "Blizzard never listens to me". I can find you multiple 10+ page threads of people suggesting the 3rd expansion should be a return to azeroth, a 20+ page thread about how increasing levels by 10 every expansion is unsustainable, about dividing raids into 10 and 25 man versions, and of having 10 and 25 mode versions of raids have an independent "normal" and "heroic" modes activatable by some menu. I can even find you a 12+ page thread suggesting that blizzard sell vanity items for cash. I played WoW for a year and quit. | ||
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