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Previously in this blog, Production Director Chris Sigaty announced that Clan support was coming to StarCraft II with Heart of the Swarm. As of our Beta Patch 2.0.1 this week, testers will be able to create and join Clans and put this new feature through its paces. Here’s a first look:
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Anyone can create or join a Clan, and doing so gives you access to the Clan window. In the Clan window, you’ll find a completely private chat channel, a News tab where Clan affairs can be posted for all members to read, an Info tab where officers can post Clan information, and a Members roster.
When you create a Clan, both a Clan name and a Clan Tag designation are required. All of the members of your Clan will have their character name pre-pended with the Clan’s Tag. The Clan Leader is able to promote members to the rank of Officer in the Clan (and demote, when necessary).
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We also have a few notes about Clan functionality in the beta for you:
Clan names must be 3-24 characters long, and will be case sensitive, allowing spaces, numbers, periods, apostrophes, and commas.
Clan Tags must be 2-4 characters long, and are also case sensitive, allowing spaces, numbers, periods, apostrophes, and commas.
Clan names and Tags must adhere to standard name policies.
The Clan Tag is automatically pre-pended to a player’s name.
There is a limit of 50 members per Clan.
Our goal with Clans in StarCraft II is simple -- we want to bring people together in ways that make sense for allowing players to organize into groups, communicate with each other, and recognize others in-game. Like other new features being tested in the beta, Clans is a work in progress, and we’re looking forward to testing it with you.
But wait! There’s more.
This is the first part of a larger social system being introduced in Heart of the Swarm. While Clans are geared towards teams of players participating competitively in StarCraft II, we’re working on support for Groups: players who want to associate casually, and in larger numbers. We expect that Groups might be focused on a specific genre of Arcade game, geographic location, BarCraft, community website, popular personality, or eSports organization. How you use Groups will be completely up to you!
Both the Clans and Groups features will be made available to Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm players. We’ll have more to say about Groups soon.
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Cool!
Im hoping Groups will allow us to watch games in-client together.
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Neat! 50 member limit kinda sucks, but the groups hint seems interesting.
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lol at the timing of this... there's a thread complainin bout no clans just below, rofl; did the guy post that before blizzard did or did he just not see that? looks nice anyways
and this:
This is the first part of a larger social system being introduced in Heart of the Swarm. While Clans are geared towards teams of players participating competitively in StarCraft II, we’re working on support for Groups: players who want to associate casually, and in larger numbers. We expect that Groups might be focused on a specific genre of Arcade game, geographic location, BarCraft, community website, popular personality, or eSports organization. How you use Groups will be completely up to you!
souns really like the steam groups i guess, i didn't really use them but the more, the better
@TDL i know perhaps 2 clans that would exceed that limit.... and they ARE massive and an exception
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If I was to list the bare minimum of things required to implement clan support this would be it. I wish I was surprised sometimes with a killer feature (like clan battles). Nice to have it at least.
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On October 31 2012 01:14 Skirmjan wrote:lol at the timing of this... there's a thread complainin bout no clans just below, rofl; did the guy post that before blizzard did or did he just not see that? looks nice anyways and this: Show nested quote +
This is the first part of a larger social system being introduced in Heart of the Swarm. While Clans are geared towards teams of players participating competitively in StarCraft II, we’re working on support for Groups: players who want to associate casually, and in larger numbers. We expect that Groups might be focused on a specific genre of Arcade game, geographic location, BarCraft, community website, popular personality, or eSports organization. How you use Groups will be completely up to you!
souns really like the steam groups i guess, i didn't really use them but the more, the better @TDL i know perhaps 2 clans that would exceed that limit.... and they ARE massive and an exception
Not really much of a timing. They said it was coming soon previously.
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FINALLY, CLANS! Hell... it's about time. Also like the way they plan to do groups as well, this way you can have a "serious" team and still be a member of other groups you'd like to affiliate yourself with.
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I can't believe they added a worthwhile feature after all this time. Just when I was convinced HOTS was going to be a glorified reshipment of WoL.
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On October 31 2012 01:19 Torte de Lini wrote:Show nested quote +On October 31 2012 01:14 Skirmjan wrote:lol at the timing of this... there's a thread complainin bout no clans just below, rofl; did the guy post that before blizzard did or did he just not see that? looks nice anyways and this:
This is the first part of a larger social system being introduced in Heart of the Swarm. While Clans are geared towards teams of players participating competitively in StarCraft II, we’re working on support for Groups: players who want to associate casually, and in larger numbers. We expect that Groups might be focused on a specific genre of Arcade game, geographic location, BarCraft, community website, popular personality, or eSports organization. How you use Groups will be completely up to you!
souns really like the steam groups i guess, i didn't really use them but the more, the better @TDL i know perhaps 2 clans that would exceed that limit.... and they ARE massive and an exception Not really much of a timing. They said it was coming soon previously.
still, the same day, i find it funny :D we waited for months you know, rofl
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Nice to hear! But I hope groups don't have a limit of 50 as well
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and battle.net.us crashed :D
Awesome to see it coming. Especially in the nxt patch as it seems
the groupm thing seems good also! its like a chat channel in wol but.. well dunno what more it has. but sounds good. maybe now ppl will be using this more
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Sounds great, exactly what has been demanded for over 2 years now. Better late than never 
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Can't wait to try this out. I hope these social features will make the community seem closer.
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URL changed for some odd reason.
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Link is no longer working... for me anyway.
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Canada11321 Posts
Looks cool. But why a 50 player limit? Why any limit for that matter? Shouldn't that be up to clan leaders to decide?
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It's kinda similar to that limit they had as to how many people you could block. Why these unnecessary restrictions- it doesn't make it better.
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They pulled the post ... strange.
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United Kingdom1381 Posts
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Really cool... With data associations like these it paves the way for clan tournaments hosted on BNET and other contests... Really looking forward to it!
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I'm going to start the Slayers clan.
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