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aimaimaim
Philippines2167 Posts
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Pumaska
Finland71 Posts
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Panoptic
United Kingdom515 Posts
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
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Kuzmorgo
Hungary1058 Posts
On May 30 2010 17:36 Scarecrow wrote: Most mmo's do one or the other, paid features or subscription. Now WoW does both! Great OP, getting all the research together and showing us what Blizzard has now become. But at least in wow the payed features give absolutely no advantage to you over players who are only paying the subscription... And its not like i will respect some1 cause i see he bought the 25$ mount.. (i usually just laugh at them). Yeah im a bit scared too for the future:S but i hope that they will fail badly, fire all Blizzard oldschool employees, and some1 with more brains hire them all into 1 team again  . | ||
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Bloodash
Netherlands1384 Posts
Poll: Are you willing to pay for; None of them (153) Popular custom maps (9) All of them (3) Additional blizzard maps (1) More then 2 of the above (1) Mini tournaments (0) Skins (0) Icons (0) Avatars (0) 167 total votes Your vote: Are you willing to pay for; (Vote): Popular custom maps | ||
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Stormscion
Serbia27 Posts
Well ultimately as long as people are paying as much as they ask they will exploit them nothing strange about thet. I would not care about that much but it actually ruins overall game play and quality of products a LOT greed > quality at this point. So they are now just another greedy company that looks for profit ... what we need is to w8 for small company that like blizzard was 15 years ago that will make true competitive environment and high quality game without looking just for exploitation and money sucking to the bones. Then when they make success they will be bought and all will go in circles  | ||
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Panoptic
United Kingdom515 Posts
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MidKnight
Lithuania884 Posts
Kotick doesn't have as much influence on Blizzard as people give him credit for. Some of the stuff he said makes it obvious he's that stereotypical, evil, money grabbing corporate douchebag, I mean, COME ON, he doesn't even try to hide the fact that he wants to exploit that 16-35 year old male "nerd" demographic. And he actually uses word 'exploit' in official discussions (that comic was pure). Oh, and also straight out said that he wants to take out all the fun of making video games.. And sell a 50$ product for 500$.. But I still like to believe Blizzard can do what's best for the community | ||
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iounas
409 Posts
On May 30 2010 19:19 lew wrote: Oh and I remember people saying that they will not buy mw2 (when they heard that there will be no dedicated servers). They made big XFIRE groups under the name "we will not buy mw2". A week after the release more then 50% of the group was playing............mw2. Then those kids whined on the forums about dedicated servers and about the fact that they don't listen to the community. Those people forgot that they bought the game and that they actually supported the next call of duty game. They supported the ignorance towards the community. People buy their games, that's their only goal. All of this is not news.. People are sheep and not only that, but people who know and care about things like servers and mods are a minority.. Gaming is mainstream now and the goal is to sell the game to a casual player trough advertising and cool graphics.. They want to shut down Korean progaming and even people on this site that watch and follow it are somehow supporting them.. People are sheep.. If blizzard came to this site and said "fuck you all" it wouldnt even affect their sales.. Hardcore people are a very small minority of players in todays world and even then after it cools down they would get the game.. Its like ISP-s. Your target is too sell subscription to people who check e-mails and surf occasionaly not people who would torrent and stream/download all day long. | ||
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SC2Phoenix
Canada2814 Posts
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Champi
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torfteufel
Germany86 Posts
and although while reading what happened after blizzard gave away their freedom in creating innovative games in becoming part of a major corporation that has to answer their share holders i felt disgust and anger, you could do the exact same thing for any major corporation around the world and it would make activision blizzard look like a sheep. just one last thing upon what corporations are NOT capable of doing: (e.i. it is IMPOSSIBLE by the nature of a corporation regardless of what their business model is) corporations are UNABLE to make decisions based on moral behavior the only basis of decision making is in relation of maximizing profits. so ask yourself: will it increase profit for actiblizzard or will it not? that is the only valid question there is as ive said before in the thread discussing the kespa/blizzard quarrel. and in that regard we now know that keeping the age limit in korea at 18+ and monopolizing broadcasting rights there will generate more profit than having a 12+ age limit with blizzard having less control over their IP. activision blizzard is not capable of adding value to the cultural aspects or honoring the work kespa has done for blizzard in regard of increasing popularity by providing the most awesome players of all time. the only way of doing so is by attaching profits to each question. if it is not possible or unreliable it is in fact irrelevant. in fact the only reason why corporations are not kidnapping your children and raping them till they die is that there is sounds sad but its the truth. :x | ||
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Jezvin
United States5 Posts
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wishbones
Canada2600 Posts
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iounas
409 Posts
On May 30 2010 20:31 torfteufel wrote: corporations are UNABLE to make decisions based on moral behavior In DragonAge there was a DLC at release and a character ingame that said "If you want to play this mission buy it".. They could put the same thing is sc2 and nobody would care.. People would still buy it and it would bring them more money and the guy who thought of that would be promoted.. | ||
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shin ken
Germany612 Posts
Let's see who will win this... | ||
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
thx a lot for the effort | ||
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a11
Germany300 Posts
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boySAILOR
Norway14 Posts
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