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Morvan
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland38 Posts
May 28 2010 21:07 GMT
#401
Frank Pearce is one of the three founders of Blizzard.
Dont you worry about Planet Express. Let me worry about blank.
uglymoose89
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States671 Posts
May 28 2010 21:07 GMT
#402
On May 29 2010 06:05 Immersion_ wrote:
The only problem with the thread is that people have (naturally) jumped on the terrible, terrible chat room one liner, instead of placing greater emphasis on the far more important(imo) issue that is the region lock.


too true, from what i understand in the interview. You need to BUY another client to play in another region. That means to play in the Australiasia area u need to buy another copy of SC2! Iunno but that seems just like an excuse to make even more money.
Vharox
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States1037 Posts
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#403
this is HORRIBLE.
Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-28 21:09:13
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#404
I am leaning more and more away from my wallet after having participated in the shenanigans that Blizzard has been putting on the table over the past couple of months.

The lack of LAN and chatrooms have irked me to the point were I would consider the social system broken and in turn - consider the game broken and now the region lock. Whats next? I don't even what to answer that.

Blizzard as of now has lost one purchase - not that it matters to them though.
(Whatever, there are many other games in the sea)
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
TheNihilist
Profile Joined May 2010
United States178 Posts
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#405
On May 29 2010 06:05 Immersion_ wrote:
The only problem with the thread is that people have (naturally) jumped on the terrible, terrible chat room one liner, instead of placing greater emphasis on the far more important(imo) issue that is the region lock.

Edit: Not to say chat rooms aren't important, but you could live with that one coming down the line, region lock is diametrically opposed to the growth of eSports, which is why the news about HDH Invitational on SC2 homepage is so hilarious.


Actually, I understand your point, but I'm not sure I agree. Chat is simply so crucial for the development of a long term community.
e4e5nf3
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada599 Posts
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#406
I'll chime in that I'm seriously worried about the future of sc2 as a serious esport game if Bnet2.0 is any indication. When you try to appease casuals and serious players you end up pissing off both.
King takes Queen
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#407
On May 29 2010 06:07 uglymoose89 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 06:05 Immersion_ wrote:
The only problem with the thread is that people have (naturally) jumped on the terrible, terrible chat room one liner, instead of placing greater emphasis on the far more important(imo) issue that is the region lock.


too true, from what i understand in the interview. You need to BUY another client to play in another region. That means to play in the Australiasia area u need to buy another copy of SC2! Iunno but that seems just like an excuse to make even more money.

That is exactly what it is. There is no reason other then being greedy for forcing people to pay to play on other servers.
SCbiff
Profile Joined May 2010
110 Posts
May 28 2010 21:08 GMT
#408
On May 29 2010 05:10 Ocedic wrote:
But when he rhetorically asked "Do you really want chat rooms?" I answered "sort of." I want clan chat and private chat rooms, yes, because that would make things like organizing scrims, inhouses and tourneys easier. Do I really need public chat rooms for bots to spam? I can do without that.


Maybe you're on the fence about if/how much you want chat rooms, but a LOT of other people aren't, so they're upset about it.

And the EULA thing doesn't seem out of the ordinary at all. There's a ton of outrageous things in most EULAs/agreements; companies tend to cover their bases.


You are, unfortunately, correct. It doesn't mean people shouldn't be irritated by it. I, for one, am glad there are a few people left in this world that care at all about privacy.

I don't know why people think Blizzard wants to take over the world or monitor your activity with SC2. If they really were such a company, they've already had the best venue in place to do that sort of thing: World of WarCraft.


Nobody thinks Blizzard is trying to take over the world, but thanks for the hyperbole. I'm sure their motives are altruistic, but it doesn't matter.

All real threats to privacy and freedom come in the guise of something beneficial. This is repeated throughout history and literature. If you don't understand that, then I respectfully submit to you that you don't understand where these threats truly lie.
Ryhn
Profile Joined February 2010
United States509 Posts
May 28 2010 21:09 GMT
#409
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.
Famous Books Written by Progamers - "Clam: Mastering your other self"
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#410
On May 29 2010 06:08 e4e5nf3 wrote:
I'll chime in that I'm seriously worried about the future of sc2 as a serious esport game if Bnet2.0 is any indication. When you try to appease casuals and serious players you end up pissing off both.

I disagree. The features the competitive players are asking for are features that will not affect casual gamers in any way. Having chat rooms and cross server play in no way negatively affects a casual gamers play experience.
Yoshi.
Profile Joined May 2010
6 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#411
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.

hmm what is that?
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#412
On May 29 2010 06:07 uglymoose89 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 06:05 Immersion_ wrote:
The only problem with the thread is that people have (naturally) jumped on the terrible, terrible chat room one liner, instead of placing greater emphasis on the far more important(imo) issue that is the region lock.


too true, from what i understand in the interview. You need to BUY another client to play in another region. That means to play in the Australiasia area u need to buy another copy of SC2! Iunno but that seems just like an excuse to make even more money.


This also means they gave the finger to all the people who asked to be able to create multiple IDs so that they can have different ladder rankings for different races (ex: platinum w/ zerg, silver w/ protoss, diamond w/ terran). Keeping this the way the beta was, you either smurf your account to play on even ground with your weakest race, or get raped over and over again trying to play your weakest race in the diamond league.
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#413
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.


could you please explain what it is or something? give some info?
tried to look it up in google, but to no avail
Vharox
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States1037 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#414
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.

This is actually quite a good idea lol.
lunar3force
Profile Joined January 2010
78 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#415
This is such a terrible news its disaster. Only good news is that in couple of years from now someone will emulate bnet 2 and make it iccup-like. Then SC2 will truly shine. Blizzard is killing itself slowly but surely.
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13069 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#416
I already knew this will happen even before SC2 beta and im laughing my ass now.

The sad thing is that even with all this bullshit 95-99% of ppl here will still buy the game heck they might buy 2 copies to play on euro and usa server.

Im fine with BW and i wanna Blizzard to fail hard with SC2.
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
May 28 2010 21:10 GMT
#417
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.

wow, I love this idea.
virusak
Profile Joined December 2009
Czech Republic344 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-28 21:14:06
May 28 2010 21:11 GMT
#418
A lot of talking and no action, he talks about how they will add or modify functionality according to players need and wishes, but the chat rooms for example? how many people want it? and how many are against? Many players would like to play with their EU/US friends, and why don't they allow them that by default? To make more money! Thats the only reason I see behind this why else wouldn't they allow you to have one account for both?

the problem is so many people are pretty much invested in SC1, they will just buy sc2 even if they disagree with 10-50% of the stuff blizzard has come up with to "make the community better" and "for the players" etc, even if most of the community don't agree with those changes
Ryhn
Profile Joined February 2010
United States509 Posts
May 28 2010 21:12 GMT
#419
On May 29 2010 06:10 travis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.


could you please explain what it is or something? give some info?
tried to look it up in google, but to no avail


Basically when the DRM shitstorm occurred with Spore a ton of fans gave the product a 1-star rating on Amazon.com

This got EA's attention quickly and spurred them to listen to the community.
Famous Books Written by Progamers - "Clam: Mastering your other self"
Late
Profile Joined August 2007
Latvia418 Posts
May 28 2010 21:12 GMT
#420
On May 29 2010 06:10 travis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2010 06:09 Ryhn wrote:
On May 29 2010 05:52 TheNihilist wrote:
This is just disgusting.

The fans should just threaten to do the "Death by a Thousand Amazon One-Stars" like the Spore community did over the DRM issue. That certainly got a response out of EA quickly, and it would probably work against Blizzard as well.


Everyone read this.


could you please explain what it is or something? give some info?
tried to look it up in google, but to no avail


I'm guessing you're supposed to give 1 star on Amazon so it has a bad rating.
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