D3 Bnet is going the same way as SC2 - Page 5

On February 08 2012 01:48 ThaZenith wrote:
And yet again Blizzard is broadcasting their stupidity to the world.

They're lucky that people are so invested in them/their games in the present, but they're losing a lot of future loyalty by purposely fucking over their player base.

On February 08 2012 01:51 Kurr wrote:


Completely agreed. I'm not sold on SC2 expansions yet and I'm not sold on any future games after D3 (including the expansion they will obviously sell us for the same price as the game).

In the future, my purchases of Blizzard games will be judged like other games so I will be harsher. I might buy a WC4 since I like WC3 a lot more than SC but it will highly depend on if they change their approach towards their games.

I'm going to buy Diablo 3 because I've been waiting a long time for it but even then that's a bit generous of me. I'll probably end up playing GW2 in the long term.

On February 07 2012 06:05 KenNage wrote:
i bought sc2 and regreted it, seems like this one will go to the same path so im not making the same mistake again (:

On February 08 2012 02:14 kuresuti wrote:


Seriously, how can you even think like this. You are experiencing a temporary rage because blizzard are idiots, but you haven't even tried the final product, maybe not even the very small beta!

You are not sold on the D3 expansion? What parts of it do you not like? Please list specifics.

On February 08 2012 02:53 Kmonx wrote:
Blizzard changing the chat system doesn't bother me that much since there are ways to communicate(forums, skype, etc.) with people.

On February 08 2012 02:45 papaz wrote:


SC2 is losing more and more players. I don't know why that is but I can only speak for myself when I say that I stopped logging in because of bnet without going through the complete list of things I don't like with it.

I expected SC2 to be like WoW, that is the population increasing over time not declining a year after release.

What made WoW was the social aspect of the game. I played so many years and thinking of what I actually did in the game it was like playing half the time and chatting the other half. The social aspects of the game were great. I got to knew a lot of people thanks to believe or not global chat/trade channels.

What will make players keep playing Diablo 3 and increasing its playerbase won't be a new set of weapons or new areas. It will be the social aspect of the game. If the game or environment will make you feel lonely like bnet with SC2 does I'm afraid D3 will not have an increasing playerbase over time. I'd say if the playerbase declines just after a year the game is quite fail.

On February 07 2012 05:59 andrewlt wrote:
You have to understand, you guys are the minority. The research pretty much confirms what Blizzard is doing. Basically, the biggest demographic of multiplayer videogames, 14-25 year old males, is a complete turn off to every other demographic. It's a negative experience for everyone else. Almost every other year, I read a major study showing how the biggest stumbling block to the expansion of hardcore multiplayer games is its current player base.

WoW's player base is generally older than most games in the market nowadays, especially FPS and action games. And I still have most general chat channels turned off on most of my characters. SC2's community is even worse, just judging from in game chat.

I can definitely see more negatives than positives in allowing public chat channels. It's pretty odd that they don't have guild support, though, as many of my current and former WoW guildmates are likely to pick up this game.

On February 08 2012 02:44 AimlessAmoeba wrote:


Says the person with over 500 posts on an sc2-related forum.