EPTBlizzard will respond to Bnet 2.0 Issues. - Page 14
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Telemako
Spain1636 Posts
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Mithrandror
Belgium85 Posts
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
On June 06 2010 06:47 TheYango wrote: "Eventually" is a bad argument, because such a large percentage of sales are made within a short time of the game's release. Being pirated on day 1, and being pirated at the end of week 3 have dramatically different end results on sales figures. Take, for example, GTA IV, which sold 8.5 million copies in the first month it was out. 3.6 million of those were sold on the first day of it's release, and 6 million were sold within the first week. I'm pretty sure developers are well aware that piracy prevention doesn't last forever, but if it lasts more than a few weeks, then from their perspective, it has done its job (from that perspective, it also makes sense to add LAN in via patch after the first major wave of sales has died down). Exactly. The whole reason why Spore's DRM was such a failure from the company's standpoint wasn't because the DRM was cracked, but because it was cracked before the game even came out. Gamers are inpatient and will buy a game when it comes out rather than wait for the crack (proven by sales figures) so DRM just has to stave off the hackers for a week to be extremely successful and worth it for the company. Blizzard could probably take advantage of this by maybe giving us LAN at a later date than release. If cracking SC2 multiplayer takes anywhere as long as cracking took during the beta then there would be plenty of time to accumulate sales before releasing offline LAN, assuming the "always connected" multiplayer experience is what is holding the hackers back. That said, there have been no indications whatsoever that Blizzard currently has any plans for LAN at all. | ||
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Exek
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QuothTheRaven
United States5524 Posts
I thought that most people felt this way about online replays, and I don't understand how Blizzard could not realize how important this is to some people. They've promised it "in a future content patch," but given that they "promised" that online replays would be delivered "in a future content patch" for Warcraft III and, to this day, WC3 still doesn't have online replays, I'm not sure I believe them. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
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Viktator
Denmark23 Posts
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bubusls
Romania61 Posts
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Brad
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-Desu-
Turkey173 Posts
Will BNET 2.0 be with Monthly Payment? Like WoW? | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:09 -Desu- wrote: Sorry to ask this question here but I searched a bit for answer but I couldn't find anywhere else. Will BNET 2.0 be with Monthly Payment? Like WoW? nope unless you live in like russia or something and choose too | ||
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-Desu-
Turkey173 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:10 blade55555 wrote: nope unless you live in like russia or something and choose too I live in Europe but I didn't get why ppl in Russia have to pay monthly | ||
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Sputty
Canada161 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:11 -Desu- wrote: I live in Europe but I didn't get why ppl in Russia have to pay monthly They don't have to, it's an option so they don't have to buy the game at full price | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:11 -Desu- wrote: I live in Europe but I didn't get why ppl in Russia have to pay monthly Because the game will be priced @ 20$ for jewl and 30$ for standard instead of $50-60, therefore they've decided to test their inevitably upcoming subscription feature. | ||
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KameZerg
Sweden1772 Posts
On June 06 2010 00:47 Trezeguet23 wrote: Glad to see that blizz does care. $$$$$$$$$$$$$ Well ofcourse they do. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ | ||
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-Desu-
Turkey173 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:16 Sputty wrote: They don't have to, it's an option so they don't have to buy the game at full price ok, so we will buy the game at full price and won't be paying every month for BNET 2.0, and then if someone in certain areas want to buy the game without the full price, he will be paying every month summing up to total price of the game. Did I get it right? And are you sure there will be monthly subscription in the future Googen? | ||
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Disastorm
United States922 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:18 -Desu- wrote: ok, so we will buy the game at full price and won't be paying every month for BNET 2.0, and then if someone in certain areas want to buy the game without the full price, he will be paying every month summing up to total price of the game. Did I get it right? And are you sure there will be monthly subscription in the future Googen? Officially, there wont be a monthly subscription in the future, hes just guessing that based on how crappy blizzard is now, that they will change their mind. | ||
Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
to mean theyre going to give us a statement/response, rather than the other meaning of "address" which is to actually work on the bnet issues which is right? | ||
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KCrazy
United States278 Posts
On June 07 2010 06:00 Zelniq wrote: i've been interpreting their comment ". and we're in the midst of working on a comprehensive address that should hit most of the major concerns" to mean theyre going to give us a statement/response, rather than the other meaning of "address" which is to actually work on the bnet issues which is right? they most likely mean that they will be making a statement on the issues either confirming that they are legit problems and that they plan on attending to them, confirm that they are legit concerns and that they already have solutions to them, or try to convince us that what they are doing is better suited for their envisions of the bnet 2.0 environment. | ||
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Go0g3n
Russian Federation410 Posts
On June 07 2010 05:18 -Desu- wrote: ok, so we will buy the game at full price and won't be paying every month for BNET 2.0, and then if someone in certain areas want to buy the game without the full price, he will be paying every month summing up to total price of the game. Did I get it right? And are you sure there will be monthly subscription in the future Googen? There will be an option to upgrade the accout to a 'full' status for an additional $30-40, an optional ~5$/mo subscription is also rumored.' Blizzard will start changing eventually, maybe for extra map-packs (they certainly didn't plan the map store for users), B.net features, could even be full-n subscriptions after 1st or 2nd expansion. As for the LAN, there is absolutely no way it can damage the sales, because: 1. The feature can be made accessible via B.net 2.0 only, at least on after-login screen, meaning that even if B.net 2.0 is down and the login/billing service is up (which usually is a separate server), players will still be able to use it. 2. Having Lan doesn't mean having the whole server, sure there may be some hamachi stuff, but that's absolutely nothing. 3. Even if the whole B.net 2.0 service leaks (unlikely), it still probably won't make much of a difference, PVPGN (B.net 1.0) leaked back in 98, every1 had it, StarCraft still sold 12m copies, Diablo II still sold 7m, WarCraft III also sold 7m copies. | ||
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