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On May 06 2010 02:42 kickinhead wrote:
I don't use Facebook, will I have to make an account or sth.?
I really just think Facebook is stupid and a waste of time and it would annoy me if I had to get an account to fully "enjoy" SC2.
Nah you just won't be able to link up with people on your facebook who you don't really chat with on a day to day basis. You won't even notice anything different if you don't already take advantage of facebook linkage in Xbox live and other services.
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On May 06 2010 02:44 Spidermonkey wrote:
This feature its self isn’t a bad idea. As long as it’s optional and easily disabled/modifiable filters it could be neat.
What gets me though is that this somehow makes the launch but chat rooms aren’t slatted until AFTER release? I just don’t understand where Blizzard is getting their info on what the community really wants.
There is the TL community (which granted does have a lot of weight) and then the community at large that generally won't care about no chat rooms. TL does not represent the larger gaming mass audience.
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i don't like how you are forced nowadays to create a facebook account
even our newspaper has an article about facebook like every week
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I'm pretty sure we won't HAVE to link up and won't HAVE to consatntly post crap about how nerdy people are. But yeah I'd prefer Battlenet to maybe be a bit more like facebook, chat etc, than link it directly.
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On May 06 2010 02:46 GogoKodo wrote:Show nested quote +On May 06 2010 02:44 Spidermonkey wrote:
This feature its self isn’t a bad idea. As long as it’s optional and easily disabled/modifiable filters it could be neat.
What gets me though is that this somehow makes the launch but chat rooms aren’t slatted until AFTER release? I just don’t understand where Blizzard is getting their info on what the community really wants.
There is the TL community (which granted does have a lot of weight) and then the community at large that generally won't care about no chat rooms. TL does not represent the larger gaming mass audience.
I sort of agree. The average gamer will find it annoying that they don't have easy to use chat channels. Lets be honest, we are going to get alot of people who's fist online game was WoW. What are they going to do without general chat channels? I don't think they will make a big enough fuss about it though to make a difference.
This entire thing with Facebook is more about viral advertising than a useful tool I think.
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great priotities blizzard...no clansystem for release but facebook integration... its just sad
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ooo yeah shove some of that web 2.0 bullshit down my throat baby
livejournal, myspace, now facebook.... that was so cool like 5 years ago.
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On May 06 2010 02:15 Captain Peabody wrote:
Sure, whatever. It's somewhat convenient, so I'm cool with it..so long as they don't announce stuff every three seconds like in Farmville.
Jimmy has won a 1v1 custom game!
Jimmy has earned the Achievement "1a2a3a4a"!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy needs someone to be his partner in 2v2! Please be Jimmy's partner!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 3v3 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 4v4 ladder game!
Jimmy has earned the achievement "You Really Suck!
Jimmy has deleted his Battle.net account! Please ask Jimmy to reactivate it!
This bullshit already exists for anyone you add as a Real ID friend. Oh and it's bugged too, so not only will you get an annoying popup the first time your friend wins 50 games as whatever race he's playing, but you'll get it randomly throughout hte rest of eternity.
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it may make competitive gaming a bit more socially acceptable
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On May 06 2010 03:05 FrozenArbiter wrote:Show nested quote +On May 06 2010 02:15 Captain Peabody wrote:
Sure, whatever. It's somewhat convenient, so I'm cool with it..so long as they don't announce stuff every three seconds like in Farmville.
Jimmy has won a 1v1 custom game!
Jimmy has earned the Achievement "1a2a3a4a"!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy needs someone to be his partner in 2v2! Please be Jimmy's partner!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 3v3 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 4v4 ladder game!
Jimmy has earned the achievement "You Really Suck!
Jimmy has deleted his Battle.net account! Please ask Jimmy to reactivate it! This bullshit already exists for anyone you add as a Real ID friend. Oh and it's bugged too, so not only will you get an annoying popup the first time your friend wins 50 games as whatever race he's playing, but you'll get it randomly throughout hte rest of eternity.
You can disable Toast Notifications under Options - Social
I highly recommend this ^^
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How about they build in something useful, like TL integration.
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yeah, pretty useless. kind of neat, maybe the best tactic to "spread the word" about the game...
still, chat channels and shared replays >> this
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And this company wants to run esports? Blizzard's idea of E-sports is probably a few newbs playing a semi-pro on bnet like that show in Korea.
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Sweden33723 Posts
On May 06 2010 03:08 CowGoMoo wrote:Show nested quote +On May 06 2010 03:05 FrozenArbiter wrote:On May 06 2010 02:15 Captain Peabody wrote:
Sure, whatever. It's somewhat convenient, so I'm cool with it..so long as they don't announce stuff every three seconds like in Farmville.
Jimmy has won a 1v1 custom game!
Jimmy has earned the Achievement "1a2a3a4a"!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 1v1 ladder game!
Jimmy needs someone to be his partner in 2v2! Please be Jimmy's partner!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 2v2 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 3v3 ladder game!
Jimmy has lost a 4v4 ladder game!
Jimmy has earned the achievement "You Really Suck!
Jimmy has deleted his Battle.net account! Please ask Jimmy to reactivate it! This bullshit already exists for anyone you add as a Real ID friend. Oh and it's bugged too, so not only will you get an annoying popup the first time your friend wins 50 games as whatever race he's playing, but you'll get it randomly throughout hte rest of eternity. You can disable Toast Notifications under Options - Social I highly recommend this ^^
I should have checked that out long ago but I only remember about it when it happens, which is during games :D Thx.
On May 06 2010 03:07 poor newb wrote:
it may make competitive gaming a bit more socially acceptable
If all this crap is what it takes to make competitive gaming socially acceptable, I say we just don't bother lol
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Anyone who expected BNet not to link up with Facebook is just amish. There will be Twitter and Buzz integration too. If you look at it from the bright side a linked streaming service might not be too far away if they manage to popularize it enough.
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I'm personally looking forward to it... it would make it easier to add people I know to my friends list
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On May 06 2010 03:14 Tef wrote:
Anyone who expected BNet not to link up with Facebook is just amish. There will be Twitter and Buzz integration too. If you look at it from the bright side a linked streaming service might not be too far away if they manage to popularize it enough.
Yeah, we want it to be all around-linked because?...
Oh Yes!, so we can play with the same people in the same server, thanks to some weirdly thought server restrictions they decided to come up at the last minute. Are you fucking seriously kidding me?.
It's not the fact that they are integrating the game, because it's good, it will make more people be aware of it, and well a whole lot more social integration, but I think, there are bigger problems, and solutions that need to be thought out well, instead of "having servers for each region of the fucking world".
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If people seriously think the time taken to integrate facebook is anything like the time to sort out some of the larger issues like x-region matches, chat channels etc then they are hugely mistaken.
Without splitting the community it is likely that it would be impossible to provide the required back end infrastructure to allow the game to exist. There is a reason WoW is split up into regions and then realms you know and why over time x-realm features appeared (as the servers became more powerful over the 5 years since launch).
A worldwide B.net 2 is not a simple thing to engineer for a company with little experience in mega-scale online projects (like google, facebook, etc).
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Yeah, this is something that a couple interns could have taken care of in a week . . . don't confuse work toward Facebook integration with work toward chat or LAN. The skills needed are simply not the same.
The thing that should be protested here is that you can have Facebook friends from all over the world, but you can't play SC2 with the ones outside your region. That part is definitely silly.
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Follow the money guys; there is more than likely a financial deal between Blizzard/Facebook, or Blizzard is going to see some amount of ad revenue for this move.
Chat channels don't make any money; everyone will buy the game regardless of chat channels. This will make them money.
Business sucks for the consumer =\
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