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Baerinho
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany257 Posts
July 07 2010 12:37 GMT
#21
On July 07 2010 19:30 Ullis wrote:
I've found a super effective way too.

I don't have facebook.

Never fails.



same here, but i got the german "version" from a different company,
but as i see it its more likely that gets implemented before chatchannels or something
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
July 07 2010 12:53 GMT
#22
On July 07 2010 19:30 Ullis wrote:
I've found a super effective way too.

I don't have facebook.

Never fails.


lol, ditto.
I gave in when I was forced to upon entering college and signed up, but then got the heck outta there when it turned into myspace and every other stupid 'community' app out there. why couldn't fb just stay different?
"Science has so well established that the preborn baby in the womb is a living human being that most pro-choice activists have conceded the point. ..since the abortion proponents have lost the science argument, they are now advocating an existential one."
Defeat
Profile Joined March 2010
United States476 Posts
July 07 2010 13:15 GMT
#23
Link gives me an error :{
"the metagame has really evolved to the point where the best chance to win the metagame is to game the metagame" -Bags
Mortician
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Bulgaria2332 Posts
July 07 2010 13:17 GMT
#24
On July 07 2010 20:21 aPsychonaut wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 20:15 nyshak wrote:
On July 07 2010 19:30 Ullis wrote:
I've found a super effective way too.

I don't have facebook.

Never fails.


This.


Yeah, that's clever! Instead of just changing a setting, let's all cancel our Facebook-accounts and stop having contact with old friends and family members.


You use facebook to contact family members...what is the world come to ...
"If anything, the skill cap in sc2 is higher [than sc1] because there are a lot more things you can do at one given time. " darmousseh
vesicular
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1310 Posts
July 07 2010 14:32 GMT
#25
On July 07 2010 21:12 citricsquid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 21:07 m00n wrote:
I think you have to connect to facebook through b.net before people can see you.


No, not the case. If you're on your friends friend list and your Facebook email matches your battle net email they'll be shown your account details, whether or not you've ever connected with Facebook in SC2 (or other battle net 2.0 games) is irrelevant. This is of course unless they've changed something during the downtime...


Wow that's incredibly stupid. Why do they not tell us this? I assumed that if I didn't log into FB through SC2 then it wouldn't connect the two. That's a major invasion of privacy.

Glad my b.net email and FB email are different in any case.
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citricsquid
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom15 Posts
July 07 2010 14:36 GMT
#26
On July 07 2010 23:32 vesicular wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 21:12 citricsquid wrote:
On July 07 2010 21:07 m00n wrote:
I think you have to connect to facebook through b.net before people can see you.


No, not the case. If you're on your friends friend list and your Facebook email matches your battle net email they'll be shown your account details, whether or not you've ever connected with Facebook in SC2 (or other battle net 2.0 games) is irrelevant. This is of course unless they've changed something during the downtime...


Wow that's incredibly stupid. Why do they not tell us this? I assumed that if I didn't log into FB through SC2 then it wouldn't connect the two. That's a major invasion of privacy.

Glad my b.net email and FB email are different in any case.


Indeed, this is why a lot of people were upset by it.
PaterSin
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany301 Posts
July 07 2010 14:39 GMT
#27
lol I have facebook and play sc2 and both are on the same e-mail but it never automatically connected me don't know why so for me this was never a problem.
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Ikkath
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom54 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-07 15:00:11
July 07 2010 14:50 GMT
#28
On July 07 2010 21:12 citricsquid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 21:07 m00n wrote:
I think you have to connect to facebook through b.net before people can see you.


No, not the case. If you're on your friends friend list and your Facebook email matches your battle net email they'll be shown your account details, whether or not you've ever connected with Facebook in SC2 (or other battle net 2.0 games) is irrelevant. This is of course unless they've changed something during the downtime...


Absolute rubbish. As a developer that has a little experience with the Facebook Connect API I can tell you are totally wrong.

You have to explicitly give the facebook login details within battle.net to link the accounts and allow battle.net to access any data stored in your facebook profile.


Edit: Thinking about it I guess it is possible that Blizzard and Facebook have a special deal worked out that would negate the requirement for a password - though I can't fathom as to why this would be advantagous to either party.
kar1181
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom515 Posts
July 07 2010 14:55 GMT
#29
I think the sooner you hide from it the better. We've all heard about the 'just to add friends line', but I saw this: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/05/blizzard-and-facebooks-friendly-social-networking-deal-launches-with-starcraft-ii-/1 today and it scares the bejesus out of me what Blizzard has in mind.

I'm hardly a privacy nut, and in the scheme of things I'm happy with everything so long as there are sufficient opt-outs. But I'm no longer sure the opt-outs will a) be there or b) will be obvious enough for me to make use of them.
sikyon
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada1045 Posts
July 07 2010 15:03 GMT
#30
I like facebook integration, it lets me find friends to play with that I didn't even known played SC.

It just saves me time. Though I do understand why some people might be concerned, I think for the vast majority of the population it's a good thing and not a bad thing.
Accer
Profile Joined May 2010
Korea (South)319 Posts
July 07 2010 15:05 GMT
#31
Nice post, I think it will help out a lot of people who are troubled by the facebook integration.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the current system. I don't mind if any of my real life friends or family have access to find my account name since in order to do so they must own a battle-net game to begin with, and if they do own one, I probably want to play with them anyway. I used the system to discover that a few of my friends (who I don't see frequently anymore) played SCII.

Of course, I believe that everyone has a right to their privacy and have their own valid reasons for doing so, and for that, I think the Facebook integration should at least be optional. Thankfully you've shown us a work around for the time being.
Ikkath
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom54 Posts
July 07 2010 15:06 GMT
#32
you go to that 'Add a Friend' button, there is an interface that pops up and there is going to be a button right there that says, 'Got Facebook? Click here.' If you click on that button, you are going to log into Facebook, right there within the Battle.net interface, in the game. You are going to type in our Facebook username and password and it will say, 'Searching your Facebook friends list for friends' and then it will pop open this interface with your Facebook friends on one side and your Battle.net friends on the other side and you will be able to click and selectively add them to your Battle.net network.


Here you go straight from that article that is "scaring the bejesus" out of people. /sigh
Ikkath
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom54 Posts
July 07 2010 15:07 GMT
#33
On July 08 2010 00:05 Accer wrote:
Nice post, I think it will help out a lot of people who are troubled by the facebook integration.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the current system. I don't mind if any of my real life friends or family have access to find my account name since in order to do so they must own a battle-net game to begin with, and if they do own one, I probably want to play with them anyway. I used the system to discover that a few of my friends (who I don't see frequently anymore) played SCII.

Of course, I believe that everyone has a right to their privacy and have their own valid reasons for doing so, and for that, I think the Facebook integration should at least be optional. Thankfully you've shown us a work around for the time being.


Only idiots currently think that it isn't optional.
Mr.Pyro
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Denmark959 Posts
July 07 2010 15:10 GMT
#34
If you don't like the facebook integration, don't use it.
It's optional.
Why hide from it, if you didn't want it in the first place?
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DeCoup
Profile Joined September 2006
Australia1933 Posts
July 07 2010 15:15 GMT
#35
My method is to use a different email for battle.net and facebook.
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Bull-Demon
Profile Joined January 2003
United States582 Posts
July 07 2010 15:16 GMT
#36
Just don't use the integration. Problem solved.
~_~
stroggos
Profile Joined February 2009
New Zealand1543 Posts
July 07 2010 15:41 GMT
#37
On July 07 2010 21:06 BeMannerDuPenner wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 20:21 aPsychonaut wrote:
On July 07 2010 20:15 nyshak wrote:
On July 07 2010 19:30 Ullis wrote:
I've found a super effective way too.

I don't have facebook.

Never fails.


This.


Yeah, that's clever! Instead of just changing a setting, let's all cancel our Facebook-accounts and stop having contact with old friends and family members.



you know.. people had contact with old friends and family members before facebook...


might sound crazy to the younger generation but people used to meet or call eachother and actually talk! or even use other online services to communicate which dont expose evrything to the whole freakin world.



facebook makes it so much easier to stalk girls i barely know though
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citricsquid
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom15 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-07 15:47:15
July 07 2010 15:44 GMT
#38
On July 07 2010 23:50 Ikkath wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 07 2010 21:12 citricsquid wrote:
On July 07 2010 21:07 m00n wrote:
I think you have to connect to facebook through b.net before people can see you.


No, not the case. If you're on your friends friend list and your Facebook email matches your battle net email they'll be shown your account details, whether or not you've ever connected with Facebook in SC2 (or other battle net 2.0 games) is irrelevant. This is of course unless they've changed something during the downtime...


Absolute rubbish. As a developer that has a little experience with the Facebook Connect API I can tell you are totally wrong.

You have to explicitly give the facebook login details within battle.net to link the accounts and allow battle.net to access any data stored in your facebook profile.


Edit: Thinking about it I guess it is possible that Blizzard and Facebook have a special deal worked out that would negate the requirement for a password - though I can't fathom as to why this would be advantagous to either party.


I am also a developer, I don't see your point. If I login to the Facebook section of SC2 it will scan my friends list and tell me who on my friends list is a player of SC2 and will give me their username. If my friend has NEVER logged in with the Facebook integration they will still be returned as a result, which I have tested.

If you'd read the Facebook documentation and consider why this feature exists (the ability to hide your email from certain people) you'd realise it's very much possible. Maybe you're misunderstanding my explanation, but it does work how I described.

I tested this with a friend who had NEVER entered his Facebook information into the box provided by SC2, yet he showed up when I searched for friends. why is that the case, if as you say, it's "impossible"?

You're misunderstanding. If I am logged in as you, I can query Facebook (through the API) and it'll respond with the email addresses of all your friends. When you give SC2 your Facebook information it queries Facebook for your friends Emails, it then matches those Emails against the battle net database. This is the reason Facebook allow you to hide your email from friends.

When the beta is back online we can verify if you like.
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
July 07 2010 15:46 GMT
#39
I also don't have a problem with Fbook integration...but I do realize that there are potential threats and such.

The thing for me is...I like how I can find my friends IRL and play with them (and destroy them =D). I can find people that I had no clue they had SC2... Also..I'm not really afraid of my friends finding me...b/c they are...my friends.

But again, I know there can be some ways where strangers can somehow access your info....
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Bob300
Profile Joined April 2010
United States505 Posts
July 07 2010 15:47 GMT
#40
If I make it so 1 person can see my email address does that screw everything up???
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