EPTAll of these news makes complete sense for Korea. If you think otherwise, you have no idea what the culture is like over there.
Starcraft 2 will be FREE for WoW players in Korea - Page 5
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oxxo
988 Posts
All of these news makes complete sense for Korea. If you think otherwise, you have no idea what the culture is like over there. | ||
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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Redmark
Canada2129 Posts
On June 24 2010 22:34 moon` wrote: I'm not saying it's going to hurt the competitive scene. What I meant to say was that in our modern age, companies have leaned towards catering the casual scene so much that the true entertainment value of games has dwindled. My interpretation of such things as innovation and creation being sold out by large corporations (i.e. Activision) which then has the money to market said game. I was just having a discussion with my friend on the future of games, more specifically the PC side of things. For example, in the FPS scene there is not much innovation anymore. The Modern Warfare craze has taken over and it's pretty much the same shiz, different title. Games focused on the competitive side or even simply focused on the general player base like 1.6 have died off to a more "casual" scene. The PC platform seems to be ignored nowadays by big titles and simple ports from consoles are the only thing seen. This brings out many lackluster titles and such. Thus, what I'm really saying is that yes, the casual scene is not a bad place to cater towards. What I truly fear is the death of creativity as more companies begin to be sold out and all companies care about is money (in Blizz's case, subscriptions to WoW). The business side of things has nothing to do with game development. This has literally no effect on Starcraft 2. If you're really so paranoid about this, complain in another thread; or, even better, play some independently-produced games. I'm not sure what you're expecting from big companies, of course they'll make games which the most people want to buy. | ||
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TaaiJoeng
Hong Kong164 Posts
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Hyp-The-Feared
United States108 Posts
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cHaNg-sTa
United States1058 Posts
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Kupon3ss
時の回廊10066 Posts
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Ocedic
United States1808 Posts
On June 24 2010 16:00 caseeker wrote: So many people wanted blizzard to announce the collectors edition for Korea today.. now blizzard took out the regular package from them.. Seriously, digital download sucks.. Digital download is amazing and I wouldn't have bought a third of the games I've bought in the past few years without it. You don't know what you're talking about. | ||
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caseeker
United States63 Posts
On June 25 2010 00:43 Ocedic wrote: Digital download is amazing and I wouldn't have bought a third of the games I've bought in the past few years without it. You don't know what you're talking about. I think YOU don't know what im talking about :p Digital download it self is great, but if there is no option to buy actual package?? that truly sucks | ||
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skipdog172
United States331 Posts
On June 24 2010 16:03 Megaphone wrote: What are you people talking about? How could this possibly be bad for Koreans? If you want to buy the game ($59), you have unlimited access to battle.net. If you want to play subscription based, you pay $10 a month, but don't have to buy the game. You can also play the game for one day for $2. Blizzard donating ~600,000,000 won to the Korean Student Aid Foundation? Free for WoW players? Extra free open beta time at launch so everybody can try the game out? I... I don't get it. Why is this bad again? Or do you guys just.. not read? Agreed. I'm starting to wonder if I am going insane when reading these forums. | ||
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theDreamStick
39 Posts
Seriously you guys that are complaining need to read. Nothing is negative about this press release. Everything is positive. No one in the US should want this subscription BS. And to all you WoW players that are complaining that you don't get the same deal, think of it this way. You're paying 15$/month for WoW. You play somewhere are 40 hours a month. Okay. In one year, you pay 12*15 = 180$ for WoW. Now if SC2 was given in addition to the WoW account, let's say you now play 20 hours SC2, 20 hours WoW. 1/2 of your money is going to SC2 => 90$ has been paid for SC2. Versus a one time 60$ offer. Before you guys start posting your rebuttals, the above is contingent on the fact that you will play WoW/SC2 for those predetermined number of hours. Obviously if you still play WoW for 40 hours, and then play 20 hours of SC2 on top of that, then you need to go get a girlfriend. At least for me, I quit WoW a while ago. And even if I was playing, I'd rather pay 60$ for a one time deal to guarantee a lifetime of playing SC2. By receiving SC2 in your WoW subscription, you'd be locked into 15$/month. Once you quit WoW, you'll still have to buy SC2. Unless you never quit WoW. | ||
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SichuanPanda
Canada1542 Posts
Seems like Blizzard wants to encourage Korean players to take the subscription approach rather than to purchase the game. Digital Download sucks for us in NA because most of our internet is only 5-10 MBPS, with the exception of being in major cities, where fiber channels are available - however in S. Korea 20 MBPS and faster internet is widespread and cheap, and so a digital download really wouldn't be too big a deal. Of course I'm certain many Korean players would have loved to have an SC2 box if for nothing more than the collector's appeal. | ||
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Drowsy
United States4876 Posts
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Carga
Netherlands58 Posts
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AJMcSpiffy
United States1154 Posts
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lesser_good
Canada698 Posts
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Forlorn
Korea (South)69 Posts
I was thinking that if they don't allow cross realm play then I might either buy 2 copies and play on the US server and Korean server or just play on the Korean one because it is more difficult. | ||
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vT.sOel
122 Posts
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theDreamStick
39 Posts
On June 25 2010 01:23 SichuanPanda wrote: Well I'm playing WoW currently and have been since beta went down (bored off my freaking ass), but I can safely guarantee that as soon as SC2 Phase 2 comes back, and then the subsequent release happens, I will not be touching WoW again until ATLEAST Cataclysm (and even at that I doubt I'll be jumping on playing that game ASAP like I did SC2). Seems like Blizzard wants to encourage Korean players to take the subscription approach rather than to purchase the game. Digital Download sucks for us in NA because most of our internet is only 5-10 MBPS, with the exception of being in major cities, where fiber channels are available - however in S. Korea 20 MBPS and faster internet is widespread and cheap, and so a digital download really wouldn't be too big a deal. Of course I'm certain many Korean players would have loved to have an SC2 box if for nothing more than the collector's appeal. WHOA. 5-10 MBPS isn't really that slow. That's a 40-80 Mbit connection. I think you mean Mb/S. Also, even if it is only like a 8 Mbit/s connection, you're still download at 1 MB/s. That's really freakin fast. Starcraft 2 is probably in the neighborhood of 2 gigs, so you figure: 2048 / 60 => 30 minutes, give or take. Think how long it'd take for you to goto gamestop, buy the game, come back, open/put CD in drive, and install it. Digital download is completely viable. You're mistaken. | ||
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loadme
171 Posts
the beta maybe was 1.6 gig prepatched but the final game includes everything maybe more music definitly many prerendered videos intro video things like tutorials singleplayer mass maps - at least i hope so maybe an interactive manual but your point is good. a 2gig download is nothing today and even less with a 50 mbit connection ;D | ||
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