On May 06 2010 06:29 Ikkath wrote:
Probably best in another thread but can't make one yet, so:

What do you want in a chat system? How do you see it working when there are perhaps a million concurrent users?

The same way Starcraft and Warcraft worked, obviously.

Zato-1

Chile4253 Posts

May 05 2010 21:43 GMT

#182

Oh, jolly. Maybe they'll add a button that makes a fart sound when you press it too? That actually sounds more useful than Facebook.

_EmIL_

Sweden138 Posts

May 05 2010 21:43 GMT

#183

what started not good is becoming shameful.

stop thinking of money ffs go balance a game instead

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

May 05 2010 21:46 GMT

#184

am I missing something or did we always have crossgame chat between all the games that ran on battle.net? it's not even a new feature.

InRaged

1047 Posts

May 05 2010 22:06 GMT

#185

Dude, maybe instead of arguing with everyone how hard it is to make chat channels and how they're gonna somehow segregate community you make a tiny bit of effort and go and join old battle.net, so you have an idea what people actually mean by "chat channels"?

Re-Play-

Dominican Republic825 Posts

May 05 2010 22:13 GMT

#186

why blizzard is adding facebook lol, but i see the point in this they just want to have a lot of Free publicity

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

May 05 2010 22:13 GMT

#187

Ugh, I was already worried about bnet becoming more social-networking-like with its friend system, and now this? Why Blizzard, why?

Prometheus2011

Kazakhstan76 Posts

May 05 2010 22:26 GMT

#188

If it didnt break the eula/tos I could create (from scratch) chat channels and inject them into the sc2 process in a matter of days BY MYSELF.

Hard to believe blizz cant do it.

minus_human

4784 Posts

May 05 2010 22:29 GMT

#189

LOL Chill.

I don't think it's that bad of a move, it will surely increase the popularity of the game, which in my opinion is always good.

Senx

Sweden5901 Posts

May 05 2010 22:32 GMT

#190

oh my god this is such a waste of time, get some actual chat system in place instead of this..

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

May 05 2010 22:34 GMT

#191

On May 06 2010 00:40 celious wrote:
Man how am i supposed to dodge going out if MY FRIENDS KNOW I'M ON STARCRAFT. FML

My social life will be ruined T_T
*coughcough

Copperhead

Canada97 Posts

May 05 2010 22:34 GMT

#192

On May 06 2010 00:09 Erucious wrote:

Show nested quote +

HAHAHAHA

On topic:

I dont want all my RL friends to know what a nerd i am

...

LOLOL yeah i feel the same about it...im not even gonna link my facebook to my bnet account...
i imagine my friend say: god damn he has already 100 game player and the reset was 1 week ago...wtf..now i know why each time i call him hes always ``busy``

KCrazy

United States278 Posts

May 05 2010 22:40 GMT

#193

does this mean i can get the cafeville achievement?? :D

also all of my friends know just how bad my addictions are, so it should be okay

ScienceRob

United States382 Posts

May 05 2010 22:43 GMT

#194

I don't dislike the feature but I do want chat rooms back in b.net. Cute facebook networking but give us chat.

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

May 05 2010 22:45 GMT

#195

This is how it will look like:

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Cube

Canada777 Posts

May 05 2010 22:49 GMT

#196

just what i needed, a way to lose the few remaining IRL friends i have.

Redder

Ireland40 Posts

May 05 2010 22:52 GMT

#197

I guess it's not a terrible idea, I mean, what harm could come of it... right?

Reminds of the Twitter integration in, I think, Uncharted 2. Heard it was the most abrasive thing in existence. I know fuck all about any social networking sites, but for other's sakes, I sure hope it doesn't end up like that, with constant status updates and the like, or something equally retarded.

Ikkath

United Kingdom54 Posts

May 05 2010 23:06 GMT

#198

On May 06 2010 07:06 InRaged wrote:

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Of course I have seen the channels in retro BT.net. I just don't think that would be really feasible/useful in SC2 if they hit the number of players that they are expecting.

I am sat in LZ's stream right now with close to 1200 people in the chat and its more or less pointless. Ok, you get the feeling you are not alone - but its not really useful in terms of chatting. Dunno, maybe its just me but the first thing I would do on the old BT.net was leave the public channel.

So personally I am not too bothered about chat channels and I can't see the fuss about them. Just wondered what magic channels people were beating their drums for.

YouMake

United States262 Posts

May 05 2010 23:08 GMT

#199

On May 06 2010 00:04 boesthius wrote:
this is completely ridiculous and unnecessary

i totally agree...Also none of my real life friends play SC