EPTSo like Facebook, where famous people are online, but no one's spamming their pages with requests to marry them or something...
One account per game - Goodbye to smurfing? - Page 2
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Captain Peabody
United States3136 Posts
So like Facebook, where famous people are online, but no one's spamming their pages with requests to marry them or something... | ||
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Sharp-eYe
Canada642 Posts
So you enter battle.net, choose a nickname (this way you can smurf) and all your achievements or what not will be recorded under your email... Its like steam... I just hope there isnt a seperate program called "Battle.net"... that would suck more. | ||
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Kennelie
United States2296 Posts
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maybenexttime
Poland5864 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:14 blade55555 wrote: There is an ignore button I am confident it wont' be as big a deal as your making it out to be. I get unrated games on the first starcraft fast I don't see why it will be any different in sc2. As for the aoe3 yes people complained but it wasn't a big deal after everyone played on it and crap complaining went down and nobody cared. But of course you guys will complain your probably one of the c-b fag players who can't beat your own rank so you smurf to feel good about yourself. Blizzard made a good decision and you can hate it all you want they won't change it You're dense... BW does not have the the automated match-making WC3 does. The VAST majority of competitive games on WC3 are played on the ladder - it's way easier than hosting custom games. SC2 will be not unlike WC3 in that regard... If someone's not liking that once in a while he gets to play with a better player, maybe he should stick to UMS games or play on the casual ladder for newbies. T___T | ||
Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
While we lose some minor conveniences from having only 1 account for ranked play, I'd say the benefit of deterring newb-bashing is greater. Besides, this is comparable to how (afaik) XBL and PSN allow you to have only 1 account for online play (unless you want to pay for more). Lastly, there's not much point in saying "but programers will be harassed!" as if this feature is being added to the current Bnet. I expect in Bnet 2.0 they'll add privacy options to prevent that kind of harassment, such as ignoring specific users, ignoring all users except your friends, and maybe appearing logged-out to anyone who's not your friend, etc. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:28 maybenexttime wrote: You're dense... BW does not have the the automated match-making WC3 does. The VAST majority of competitive games on WC3 are played on the ladder - it's way easier than hosting custom games. SC2 will be not unlike WC3 in that regard... If someone's not liking that once in a while he gets to play with a better player, maybe he should stick to UMS games or play on the casual ladder for newbies. T___T lol I have to say that was a funny read You need an open mind not a closed one otherwise everything blizzard does will be bad to people like you which is not good when its actually good :D | ||
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Koof
United States66 Posts
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ActualSteve
United States627 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:16 Captain Peabody wrote: Actually, this won't be a problem; you can only talk to your friends, and friend requests will have to be manually approved by the person themselves. So no Jaedong-harassing... (This is something fine to discuss, but please...no hysteria! The panel is ongoing; don't assume stupid stuff and then get mad about it. Wait until you know something before assuming the worst.  )Ah, but think of how many "friend requests" good ol' Dongo is going to get per day when his tag is public. Methinks many. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
If not... On August 22 2009 08:30 Koof wrote: I would rather not have smurfs in SC2, in any form. If you're that prideful about having a totally clean account with wins only, I guess it would be worth it to you to buy that many copies of Starcraft 2. Smurfing is NOT sandbagging. It has NOTHING to do with stats. Do you know what the first account I created for SC was? Archmage_Fenix. I was 12. Being stuck with that for 8 years would have sucked balls. Second - privacy. Sometimes, you want to play alone, you don't want to talk to the people on your flist - you just want to relax. Fuck the cry-babies. Fuck them all. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:30 Koof wrote: I would rather not have smurfs in SC2, in any form. If you're that prideful about having a totally clean account with wins only, I guess it would be worth it to you to buy that many copies of Starcraft 2. Agreed with you 100%. So far the arguments to why its bad are pretty bad because its really not hard to play unrated for the problems people are saying like trying a new race or strategy don't see how its hard to play unrated but ok then ^^. | ||
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dhe95
United States1213 Posts
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Gregsen
Germany667 Posts
 Worse decision ever!!! | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:32 dhe95 wrote: What about clan tags? Say you changed clans or something, will you be able to change your name at least? >.> This is my only concern. What AoE3 did was you could create your clan on the server and when creating it (when you logged on to eso2). You put your clan name, then the tags. The tags would go next to your name and if you left the clan it would go away. I am hoping Blizzard does the same thing. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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mrgerry
United States1508 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:32 blade55555 wrote: Agreed with you 100%. So far the arguments to why its bad are pretty bad because its really not hard to play unrated for the problems people are saying like trying a new race or strategy don't see how its hard to play unrated but ok then ^^. 1) Privacy. Sometimes you even want privacy from your FRIENDS. 2) Being stuck with the same ID you made when you were 10, 10 years later. No thank you. 3) Not wanting to play Zerg on ladder when you are A rank Protoss but C rank Zerg (this is solved by them having 1 rating for each race). There is NO REASON why you wouldn't allow people to make multiple IDs - just tie them all to a single Battle.net account, and rate them based on that. On August 22 2009 08:37 mrgerry wrote: Once again I think we are back to the point where it's wait and see -____-. Speculation is fun for only so long. Clan tags and name changing seems like something they would have put alot of thought into right? In WC3, you have a seperate Clan name in your profile. However people still make new IDs for new clans I think, since the clan name isn't visible apart from when you are in a channel/profile (I THINK). | ||
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L
Canada4732 Posts
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
On August 22 2009 07:57 maybenexttime wrote: What if I want to learn a new race? [...] What if I want to learn a new strategy? You still have good options: - play unrated matches - play with your friends - ask for games in an appropriate channel - ask for games on TLnet or another forum - man-up, play rated matches, and take the stats hit (after all, I thought only newbies cared about their record?  ) | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:40 L wrote: Renaming yourself is SO going to be a microtransaction. Fuck my life. On August 22 2009 08:40 Bill307 wrote: You still have good options: - play unrated matches - play with your friends - ask for games in an appropriate channel - ask for games on TLnet or another forum - man-up, play rated matches, and take the stats hit (after all, I thought only newbies cared about their record? )Inferior options to just allowing people to create new IDs. Or, having 1 seperate rating for each of your races (ie my protoss is ELO 2000, my Terran is ELO 1800, my Zergo is ELO 900). | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:39 FrozenArbiter wrote: 1) Privacy. Sometimes you even want privacy from your FRIENDS. 2) Being stuck with the same ID you made when you were 10, 10 years later. No thank you. 3) Not wanting to play Zerg on ladder when you are A rank Protoss but C rank Zerg (this is solved by them having 1 rating for each race). There is NO REASON why you wouldn't allow people to make multiple IDs - just tie them all to a single Battle.net account, and rate them based on that. 1. There will be a privacy option if not will blizzard isn't thinking straight. 2. If it really bothers you buy a new account or pick a name you know you will like ^^. 3. Unrated? 4. If you can make a new name if you keep the stats then that's fine with me as long as you keep the stats so that you can't smurf. | ||
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