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desRow
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada2654 Posts
September 12 2011 03:50 GMT
#21
On September 12 2011 12:50 benjammin wrote:
if valve can manage it, why can't blizzard?

valve doesnt have to deal with stream cheaters
http://twitch.tv/desrowfighting http://twitter.com/desrowfighting http://facebook.com/desrowfighting
acrimoneyius
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States983 Posts
September 12 2011 03:50 GMT
#22
On September 12 2011 12:37 desrow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2011 12:35 Catroa wrote:
Why should we have to pay for a name change? Why not let us change our name whenever we want, or even just let us change it at the end of each season. We shouldn't have to pay for name changes when there is so little effort that it takes to do.


how could we track cheaters or assholes if they keep changing name and codes and portraits ?

Blizzard is doing it right, the internet is already filled with assholes, if they can abuse anonymity(is that a word lol ?) we are doomed.


I disagree with this completely. There are ways for them to associate the blocking of someone with a unique, hidden variable and it will keep them blocked. People will continue to find ways to be assholes, regardless. Why ruin it for everyone else? It's completely nonsensical to PAY for a fucking name change.
MountainGoat
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States508 Posts
September 12 2011 03:51 GMT
#23
Seriously? I thought this has been cried for and desired for an insanely long time. I can't believe that they've never noticed people wanting it.
0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
September 12 2011 03:51 GMT
#24
Should cost a few dollars. Separate the prepubescent trolls from the responsible players - for the most part.
Charger
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2405 Posts
September 12 2011 03:51 GMT
#25
Free money for Blizzard and they act like they don't even want to do it. This is a simple change, it really is. I just really don't understand why Blizz doesn't want this extra cash.
It's easy to be a Monday morning quarterback.
benjammin
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2728 Posts
September 12 2011 03:52 GMT
#26
On September 12 2011 12:50 desrow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 12 2011 12:50 benjammin wrote:
if valve can manage it, why can't blizzard?

valve doesnt have to deal with stream cheaters

don't stream if you care that much about stream cheaters
wash uffitizi, drive me to firenze
Stancel
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Singapore15360 Posts
September 12 2011 03:52 GMT
#27
$5 per name change seems fair, or/and you can add a limit e.g. 1 per month?
ffxiv enjoyer
a176
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada6688 Posts
September 12 2011 03:52 GMT
#28
I don't understand why people would pay money to change their name in a video game.
starleague forever
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-12 04:35:12
September 12 2011 03:52 GMT
#29
So we are taking the word from a Q&A staff member over the phone? They do not have all of the information, and it was also stated by Dustin Browder in one of his many interviews that clan support will be added in the future. I take the lead designers word over a Q&A staff member.
Brood War forever!
RoMGraViTy
Profile Joined February 2011
United States314 Posts
September 12 2011 03:52 GMT
#30
On September 12 2011 12:50 benjammin wrote:
if valve can manage it, why can't blizzard?


rhetorical, Valve is incredible.
"Khaldor is a younger version of Goro from Mortal Kombat" - Tasteless
caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-12 03:55:29
September 12 2011 03:53 GMT
#31
EDIT: misread.

I'm surprised that they aren't tuned in to the fact that a LOT of people want this.
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea...
madstarcraft
Profile Joined May 2011
United States103 Posts
September 12 2011 03:53 GMT
#32
ATTENTION BLIZZARD:
we are going to Pay u to change our names, something that a program can do in less than 30 sec. PAY U!
Terran is OP deal with it!
tok
Profile Joined April 2010
United States691 Posts
September 12 2011 03:54 GMT
#33
On September 12 2011 12:50 benjammin wrote:
if valve can manage it, why can't blizzard?

All names on Steam are cosmetic. Valve definitely knows how to listen to the community.

Somebody get a petition and hand it to Bobby Kotick.
Snorkle
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1648 Posts
September 12 2011 03:56 GMT
#34
On September 12 2011 12:46 DoNotDisturb wrote:
To everyone whining that name changes should be free

> Imagine if this feature would be free and unlimited ? The internet is already filled with assholes and stream cheaters imagine if they could change character code/portrait/name every day ?

Seriously guys?


I don't have to imagine, I just have to go play a game on the steam platform (pretty much everything except blizz games). Yes it can be abused. Back in the day I was playing MW2 with some mates. We were good enough to pub stomp and people used to always change their name to our clan tag and then write racist and other generic bm in the chat.

Blizz should have clan support in bnet .02 pretty much the same way BF2 does it. Hell maybe they could even be innovative and come up with some additional cool clan features. Meanwhile we have facebook integration and everyone is out there screaming for blizz to take their money for paid name change. So confusing.
Kid-Fox
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada400 Posts
September 12 2011 03:58 GMT
#35
Why not make it free but only allow active players to change names once per season? Seems somewhat tough to abuse to me.
MarKeD
Profile Joined December 2010
Australia183 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-12 04:04:07
September 12 2011 03:59 GMT
#36
This is total bullshit, we already pay full price for a game + 2 expansions, and they want to charge extra to change your name? I hardly think this is a service that would be expensive, time consuming or even difficult to provide. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if there were 3rd parties that would be willing to do this for free, if Blizzard would allow it. Blizzard are practically thieves with these business tactics imo.

Forgot to mention Battlenet in starcraft so far is a horribly outdated, restrictive and the latency problems with blizzard servers are just plain frustrating. It's a shame that the company that originally created starcraft and thus inherited the rights turned into the "Blizzard" we have today.
methematics
Profile Joined August 2010
United States392 Posts
September 12 2011 03:59 GMT
#37
On September 12 2011 12:32 red4ce wrote:
I don't care about name changes as much as being able to have a 2nd/3rd profile so I can off-race against people at my skill level.


100% this. Playing a single race gets fucking boring, and i doubt most people can offrace at the same level as their main (BOs and Macro is different, micro is similar). This is the worst feature about bnet20 i think. I got bored in 1v1 so started randoming and won something like 90% when i was P, 50% as Z, 10% as T. Maybe doing something like sub-accounts under the same game registration would help better match making when people off race.

In Wc3 and BW you could just make a separate account to fuck around on, why would they overlook this.
cHaNg-sTa
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States1058 Posts
September 12 2011 04:00 GMT
#38
Can we watch replays with our friends? I mean.. seriously. This is one of the most useful functions of the original bnet and we can't use it for bnet 2.0... doesn't make any sense.
Jaedong <3 HOOK'EM HORNS!
Truedot
Profile Joined August 2011
444 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-12 04:02:11
September 12 2011 04:00 GMT
#39
On September 12 2011 12:46 DoNotDisturb wrote:
To everyone whining that name changes should be free

> Imagine if this feature would be free and unlimited ? The internet is already filled with assholes and stream cheaters imagine if they could change character code/portrait/name every day ?

Seriously guys?


by setting up a "pay to grief" system as you're stating, you're in effect legitimizing all people's claims that "they can be assholes and just buy their way out of it".

Seriously? is that the kind of way you think society should be? or are you just dumb?

What you may not have realized is that people already do this "paid name change" on their own, via selling their SC2 account/CD and buying a new one.

GMs and their friends have done it with smurf accounts that get revealed. You really think "pro" griefers and internet assholes dont do this as well? Some simply buy new CDs without even selling their old ones.

So saying that it should be a paid name change makes as much sense as shitting on the carpet.


On September 12 2011 12:52 a176 wrote:
I don't understand why people would pay money to change their name in a video game.


exactly.
I used to spend my time not caring about people's language in chat. Until I got hit by blizz. Now I spend my time instigating people to verbal abusive levels, so I can ban them in turn. The circle of life.
acrimoneyius
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States983 Posts
September 12 2011 04:00 GMT
#40
On September 12 2011 12:58 Kid-Fox wrote:
Why not make it free but only allow active players to change names once per season? Seems somewhat tough to abuse to me.


Because that would make too much sense, and that can't happen with Bnet 2.0
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