Even Blizzard has became too big for themselves. They always take pride in their successful business model for games, only releasing quality products when they are done instead of reaching deadlines... that is unfortunately not happening with SC2 (even though its been pushed back so many times). I feel like bnet 2.0 needs a major overhaul before release, because frankly I'm sure most of us agree its absolute trash in so many ways. Yes I know its a beta, I've played other beta games as well. Blizzard hasn't been the same since WoW, don't get your hopes up guys.

They are in it for the money 100%. The next gen MMO they are working on is where the money is at, and games like SC2 and Diablo 3 (which has bad direction as well atm, I may add), no matter how successful, do not compare to that monthly payment they get from a game like WoW. Not even close.

sith

United States2474 Posts

May 29 2010 00:29 GMT

#344

This is fucking insane.

/signed

wanderer

United States641 Posts

May 29 2010 00:36 GMT

#345

On May 29 2010 05:43 Kennigit wrote:

Show nested quote +

By causing a shit storm.

Lets start a shit storm.

HDstarcraft

United States577 Posts

May 29 2010 00:41 GMT

#346

/signed

elcarni

Argentina38 Posts

May 29 2010 00:44 GMT

#347

/signed

can-t even comment on how much blizz has gone downfall since he's activision's bitch

taichou

Lithuania108 Posts

May 29 2010 00:45 GMT

#348

/signed BLIZZ WAKE UP!

SagaZ

France3460 Posts

May 29 2010 00:48 GMT

#349

Well, at least we have facebook integration

Eskanasi

Australia3 Posts

May 29 2010 00:50 GMT

#350

Here's the last thing that was said on region locking (this was Sigaty btw):

Q: How far in the 'long term' are those plans which allow for swapping to U.S. servers on an E.U. account - or a global account?
A: Jumping to the region you want is definitely in the long term plan for Battle.net, although we do have some concerns about communicating properly to the player what's happening if they choose this because it WILL affect the latency of the game. As far as a date on when, I don't have one yet. There are a number of features that we want to make sure get out their first and jumping to different servers is lower on the priority list at the moment.

There you go. Now, I THINK that that is shit-storm avoided.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25171927052

The thread Bashiok posted that in.

Also, Bashiok posted that the day before you posted this thread. So *shrug*

Lollersauce

United States357 Posts

May 29 2010 00:54 GMT

#351

Bashiok is just a huge troll.
Just look at his comment on chat rooms. lol.
Blizzard making good games is soooo 1998

510Sushi

Azerbaijan331 Posts

May 29 2010 00:58 GMT

#352

/singed
blizzard please listen to your fans. we love your games, and really only want to make it better

potatomash3r

Australia417 Posts

May 29 2010 00:59 GMT

#353

Its ironic that the reasoning behind region lock is to prevent high latency in games when they have already taken out LAN support.

Zamkis

Canada114 Posts

May 29 2010 01:10 GMT

#354

To remain coherent with their main goal of Starcraft 2 being eSports centered, they have to implement cross-realm play. For the reasons Kennigit listed, and for the respect of the community, the answers they provided are completely insufficient. Removing offline play while also greatly limiting online play? This is a absurd step back from what we already considered granted and necessary.

InRaged

1047 Posts

May 29 2010 01:10 GMT

#355

On May 29 2010 09:50 Eskanasi wrote:
Also, Bashiok posted that the day before you posted this thread. So *shrug*

Ya. Couple hours ago actually lol
Gotta <3 KST

That Sigaty quote doesn't have anything that could calm current uproar

Jt4096

Australia78 Posts

May 29 2010 01:13 GMT

#356

Its as silly an idea as DVD regions.

/signed

synapse

China13814 Posts

May 29 2010 01:14 GMT

#357

/signed

SerVanT

United States19 Posts

May 29 2010 01:23 GMT

#358

/signed

nitdkim

1264 Posts

May 29 2010 01:30 GMT

#359

If blizzard doesn't want private ladders to spring up for SC2, they should accommodate to their users' wants and make it so that Bnet 2.0 won't lack in anything the community wants so there is no need for private ladders.