EPTBlizzard to add name change if people show support - Page 10
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
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kazansky
Germany931 Posts
I don't understand what Blizzard was thinking in the first place, and for a reason why it would not be allowed I can only come up with the silly Bnet.ID friendslist system. | ||
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Highways
Australia6119 Posts
On September 12 2011 16:02 Ledcaveman wrote: Pretty sure there are more important things to fix than implementing name changes... Name change doesn't really bother me, but no clan support makes me angry. | ||
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nitdkim
1264 Posts
On September 12 2011 16:12 kazansky wrote: We had the discussion clan internal just yesterday, it's so sad how missing clan support puts up hurdles, but on top of that the missing name change possibility makes people not wear their clantag because they can only change their names once. I don't understand what Blizzard was thinking in the first place, and for a reason why it would not be allowed I can only come up with the silly Bnet.ID friendslist system. People will cry about it. A year later, blizz adds it. Blizz becomes hero of the community for adding something that they left out on purpose. You start secretly a fire, then you come rolling in with fire engines. You become hero. | ||
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Champi
1422 Posts
just give us some sort of option at least ffs | ||
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Fadetowhite
Korea (South)302 Posts
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Belisarius
Australia6233 Posts
On September 12 2011 16:09 blade55555 wrote: I would be happy if it was just every new season you can rename your character. That would actually make a tremendous amount of sense. Far too much sense for Blizzard. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On September 12 2011 12:40 dacthehork wrote: Steam does it pretty well with STEAM ID bnet 2.0 has a long way to go though before catching up to bnet 1.0, so maybe in 2020 it will catch up to steam More like catch up to WarCraft III. | ||
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Truedot
444 Posts
On September 12 2011 16:16 nitdkim wrote: People will cry about it. A year later, blizz adds it. Blizz becomes hero of the community for adding something that they left out on purpose. You start secretly a fire, then you come rolling in with fire engines. You become hero. this is also the point I was attempting to make, with this http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=264829#9 beyond all the other stuff about how it won't create more abuse than people already doing it, and that you're inviting the mentality of "pay to grief" into the game, which should never exist in any part of life. | ||
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Grettin
42411 Posts
On September 12 2011 16:21 Fadetowhite wrote: how about something that doesnt cost money. Yeah, lets see what Blizzard wants to give you.. may take a while.. | ||
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
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FieryBalrog
United States1381 Posts
On September 12 2011 12:40 dacthehork wrote: Steam does it pretty well with STEAM ID bnet 2.0 has a long way to go though before catching up to bnet 1.0, so maybe in 2020 it will catch up to steam Steam matchmaking is pretty terrible, so... | ||
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Truedot
444 Posts
On September 12 2011 15:49 fraktoasters wrote: I concur with this. It's quite obvious they already have this implemented (since we all got 1 free name change). I'm really baffled at how having more name changes would be difficult to implement unless they designed their back end in some really bizarre way. Look, people need to stop saying "Whatever Blizzard does I'm sure is right" or "We don't know because we're not Blizzard". Computers aren't magic. There is not magic in this or super secret technology, and there are plenty of people here that can understand the technology side of this. A name change should be a trivial thing to implement. Edit: Also this whole thing is really pathetic of Blizzard. oh man, you would get a kick out of the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Technology brought to religion status and only the "priests" know how to run it, so that wars are only conducted by the religion agreeing to maintain and run the space fleet ships. epic stuff. Prelude to Foundation was my first book in that series, right before high school. Loved it. | ||
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Jetaap
France4814 Posts
(sorry for ranting, but seeing that "they are not working on it because there is no demand" makes me mad, and it's something that would get them money ffs ... | ||
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Truedot
444 Posts
Remember, its run by activision. The old blizzard would've put lan in there. Activision doesn't want that. Too bad, but the end result is you have to stop buying from blizzard. you don't drink from a well once its been poisoned do you? Oh, and if this gets implemented on a pay to change basis with no free ability some way, I will simply not use the service. I won't grit my teeth and bear it. I'll sell my account and buy a new one if it comes down to actually needing a new name. Just like pros have done with smurf accounts that get revealed. | ||
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Goldfish
2230 Posts
On September 12 2011 14:09 Serpico wrote: lol people are begging to give blizzard their money just for a name change. Here we go. You can't win against Blizzard and they know this. Blizzard: Lolololol what you guys going to do if you don't provide name changes? People: Well I guess we'll buy Diablo 3 and instead buy another SC2 account to change our name. Though no really I think this is an okay idea (paid name changes) but however I think it is silly that Blizzard thinks no one wants this because people aren't being loud enough. I'm partially a Blizzard fanboy (Partially because I side with KeSPA against Blizzard so I'm a reasonable "fanboy") mainly because of their modding/editor support for SC1, WC3, and SC2. It's easy to use (anyone can mod the games real easy. All editors are easy to use. WC3 is easy to learn but hard to master. SC2 hard to learn but a bit easier to master since the data editor is now a lot more capable of doing more). Basically it means anyone with a decent amount of time can make any game they want and it doesn't always have to be an RTS. Valve same thing, kudos to them. Point is I think I've got my moneys worth from all Blizzard games which is why I don't mind these extra paid stuff because I think their games are good and their modding support is good. Also nowadays games are more expensive to make (well ones with modern graphics and assets like SC2) than before. Plus more and more people are going/sticking with console gaming than PC (which is why each yearly Call of Duty game sells more than SC2 so far[no seriously CoD MW2[2009], CoD Black Ops[2010], and probably CoD MW3 all have sold more than SC2 and they come out once a year. This is the same with Guitar Hero and other yearly stuff by guess who... Activision). Bobby Kotick (put in charge by Blizzard and Activisons master "Vivendi Games") probably went like: "Hmm okay SC2 is okay in terms of sales but hey it still hasn't compared to <insert yearly CoD or Guitar Hero game>. Do something about it Blizzard or else... everyone will get fired like those two CoD MW2 developers who wanted a raise! Or worst... You could all end up like Blizzard East [Yes there was a "Blizzard East". No I'm not confusing this with "Blizzard North". Turns out they sacked "Blizzard East" and hid the evidence that "Blizzard East" even existed." (actually I doubt that but this is just for the lulz right >.>). As for the whole Steam/Valve thing - + Show Spoiler + Well it started off with WON where there was no practical way to link a person's name to their account/CD Key (Valve could set it up so you had to register your CD key to an online website with an account name then lock that account somehow for all games but no one did that back then >.>). They kept it that way. With Blizzard they always stuck with one account - No name change (In SC1 and WC3 all you could do was create a new account). | ||
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avidday04
United States63 Posts
As far as pricing goes I cannot see justification for it being more than $5. These are fee's that belong in free games, not WoW and not SC2. I understand there are reasons for restrictions to be put on these kinds of services, but it is clear they are trying to make a profit off them. They aren't providing any new content and these services require virtually no oversight. I guess what I'm trying to say is of course the name change feature should be in SC2 and the reason not many people have made a fuss about it is because Blizzard fricken' promised us it was coming 'soon'. Finally, I don't think people changing teams should have to repurchase SC at full price every time they need a name change. Edit: I do want to add something: If their reason for not adding this feature is because people haven't been vocal enough, then what about features they have been vocal about? *cough* LAN *caugh* -OR- what about the features that were added that nobody gives a crap about? *cough* Facebook integration *cough* I'm probably being way, way too critical. Blizzard is still putting out good products and I know how hard they work and care about the game; I guess I'm being critical cause I want the game to grow into it's full potential. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8262 Posts
http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2624978190?page=1#6 | ||
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decemvre
Romania639 Posts
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AdroiT
United States77 Posts
BLIZZARD! Use this money to hire a person or two to add features like... group replays.... Please! | ||
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