Bashiok outlines possible Global Play - Page 4

On June 17 2010 08:46 Takkara wrote:


Why not? I mean what's your alternative? You either pay for it, or you don't get it. You can raise holy hell and bitch and moan and try to avoid it getting added to other games, but that won't change the fact that for SC2 if they choose to charge you either pay or you don't get it.

So you're already paying $140+ for the 3 games. What's another $10 if what you get is the one single feature you wanted the most out of the whole feature set.

This is unlike something like chat. I don't see how they could ever microtransact chat. But, xregion is a database tweak. I can't see them doing that for free. WoW provides too many examples of this. But even still, why be so cheap about it?

I get that it should be free, BW had it, 10 years ago, BNet 0.2, blah blah blah. But in the end, if you want it, and they're making you pay for it, they have you by the balls. For $10 I'm not going to split hairs if that's what it ends up being.

On June 17 2010 09:02 Baarn wrote:
Blizzard is a company that has a successful business model that they offer a product and charge for services. It's not like they are charging a sub each month for Starcraft 2. You want to do anything outside of playing the game on the region you bought then you gotta suck it up and pay more. It's heartbreaking I know. Any of you are welcome to go start your own game company and not have micro transactions for any of your products.

On June 17 2010 Bashiok wrote:
Well let's not get crazy before there's actual information. Right now we're focusing on the game, the Battle.net infrastructure, etc. and making sure the launch goes smoothly. There's been no decisions or even design work done on how the cross-region licenses will work. We know that we're going to do them, but aside from that there aren't any details available. When we have some we'll definitely let you know.

On June 17 2010 08:49 Drin wrote:
I think it is great that they are actually commenting on the situation, even providing some hope that it might be free.

While it may be true that they are looking into paid services/options, there's no direct mention of that. Being an optimist, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they want to region-lock people during the first few months to avoid server overload. If you think about it, the last full retail game they launched (vanilla WoW) was absolutely plagued with launch issues due to server strain. The blizzard name is even more popular now, and while an RTS is probably not going to draw the same numbers, there is no doubt that SC2 will sell a ton of units on the first day.

As angry as people are regarding the lack of cross-realm support (which is obviously the far greater issue in the long term) there would be even more people angry if they couldn't log on and play with the game they just purchased.

On June 17 2010 08:19 ryanAnger wrote:


Ten years ago there weren't nearly as many people playing the game (any game for that matter) than there are/will be today.