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On August 16 2010 21:45 sikyon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 21:34 xtfftc wrote:On August 16 2010 21:14 Mothxal wrote:First of all, there are administrative costs for Blizzard for setting this up First of all, we have all paid for the game already. Case closed. No, not case closed. You are being unreasonable as to the real costs of developing a game and running a large support service like battle.net and continued development for many years. Games are getting more costly as they become larger and more integrated - we're not playing tetris anymore. I for one welcome micro transactions, as it gives incentive to companies to continue to support their games well after release. Without some sort of continual income directly related to how well a game does long term, there is little incentive to look towards long term support for your games. The type of pay on purchase only model is what induces companies to produce crappy title after crappy title.
I bought WC3 - I could make how many accounts I wanted,DID NOT NEED TO PAY. And supporting games is freaking company's duty - You want to keep the game alive? TAKE CARE OF IT. Not request paying for everything,because of people like You in future we'll be forced to pay for damn balance patches.
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Why are people talking about stats reset? Learn to read.
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I don't want to change my name, I want a new patch.
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I really hate this version of BNet.
If they want to cut costs then give me LAN play FFS.
Why can't I create whatever the hell name I want to play with friends or create a new account so that I can play as a different race without hurting my record as my main race?
Honestly, I paid $150 for the collectors edition so why the hell can't I be whatever name I bloody like? It's just a string in memory.
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I fear this is only the beginning of more micro transactions
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On August 16 2010 21:45 sikyon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 21:34 xtfftc wrote:On August 16 2010 21:14 Mothxal wrote:First of all, there are administrative costs for Blizzard for setting this up First of all, we have all paid for the game already. Case closed. No, not case closed. You are being unreasonable as to the real costs of developing a game and running a large support service like battle.net and continued development for many years. Games are getting more costly as they become larger and more integrated - we're not playing tetris anymore. I for one welcome micro transactions, as it gives incentive to companies to continue to support their games well after release. Without some sort of continual income directly related to how well a game does long term, there is little incentive to look towards long term support for your games. The type of pay on purchase only model is what induces companies to produce crappy title after crappy title.
Oh, come on. ....SC2 sold 1.8 Million times on the first day. SC:BW was sold over 10 Million times in the last 12 years.
Guess you can run some Servers from that profit for a while :D
+ I´ll have to buy 2 "addons" in the next 2-3 years. Full price of course.
For that ~150€ I can expect some online support?!
And what "administrative costs" are there for a name change??? none, it needs two lines of code any beginner could do -_-
Micropayment is ment to turn you into a milk cow N-joy
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On August 16 2010 21:58 aPsychonaut wrote:
I don't want to change my name, I want a new patch.
this :D
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What the Hell? We got a free name change any time we wanted in SC1 and WC3. Blizzard and microtransactions are really starting to get to me. If they ever reach the amount of microtransactions they have in WoW, I'll quit playing Blizzard games I swear. Not that I really play SC2 much anyway (I do enjoy watching it though).
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Why the hell are people complaining? OMG MICRO TRANSACTIONS
they weren't going to have it at all, you were to be stuck with your first name. I for one welcome a free change because I kind of do want to change it, I won't pay to change, if you don't want to pay then don't, pretty simple. At least you get a do over if you really hate what you chose.
I'm just super jealous of great names like DuckloadRa
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On August 16 2010 22:03 futoM4ki wrote:
SC:BW was sold over 100 Million times in the last 12 years.
I think you got your Zeroes wrong there.
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How about a balance patch to fix the ridiculousness that is Zerg early game?
Or CHAT ROOMS (but do you really want them?) to fix how lonely and sad Bnet0.2 is when you're not just massing games...
Or even an update to the map publishing/sorting system so it doesn't SUCK?
Oh, I guess we'll go with a paid name change feature. Yippie.
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On August 16 2010 21:45 sikyon wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 21:34 xtfftc wrote:On August 16 2010 21:14 Mothxal wrote:First of all, there are administrative costs for Blizzard for setting this up First of all, we have all paid for the game already. Case closed. No, not case closed. You are being unreasonable as to the real costs of developing a game and running a large support service like battle.net and continued development for many years. Games are getting more costly as they become larger and more integrated - we're not playing tetris anymore. I for one welcome micro transactions, as it gives incentive to companies to continue to support their games well after release. Without some sort of continual income directly related to how well a game does long term, there is little incentive to look towards long term support for your games. The type of pay on purchase only model is what induces companies to produce crappy title after crappy title.
On August 16 2010 21:48 sikyon wrote:Also, if you want to play a different race so badly, just DO IT. Who cares about your rating? You'll work back up to it anyways and your game will be stronger. You can also play a different race in team games or FFA to practice if you are so desperate. But what do I know, I play random anyways so I don't really have to race switch 
You fail to mention that they have raised the price of the game significantly and even plan to release two expansions instead of the usual one - and in the same time the quality of their service has decreased rapidly. Not to mention that with SC2 they have complete control over the pro scene and the custom games scene, which will provide sustained income. So no, charging me even for a second account is way too much.
Playing as a different race is not about rating and people have explained it again and again and again. If I switch to Zerg, I will play opponents who are far above my level because of my Protoss rating. This is fine. However, when I go back to Protoss, I will have to waste my time with weaker ones because of my Zerg rating.
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On August 16 2010 22:07 Zaru wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 22:03 futoM4ki wrote:
SC:BW was sold over 100 Million times in the last 12 years. I think you got your Zeroes wrong there.
yeah, sry ....I ment 10.000.000 of course ._.
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as long as none of these micro payments are required for actual content I don't mind one bit tbh I don't understand why people are going 'omg micropayment' for shit nobody even needs, nobody is forcing you to change your name every tuesday...
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My first thought: cocksuckers. They deprive you of basic functionality, then start charging you for it, but the first time is free so apparently people think it's mighty generous of old Blizzard! If you're anything other than outraged, you're a sheep. Also, smurfing (big deal to all the idiots) is perfectly acceptable, as long as you're willing to pay for the privilege. This is downright pathetic.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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i guess somethings better than nothing, ill take one free name change i guess
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As long as they don't start selling maps I don't see what the issue is.
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On August 16 2010 22:13 HalfAmazing wrote:
My first thought: cocksuckers. They deprive you of basic functionality, then start charging you for it, but the first time is free so apparently people think it's mighty generous of old Blizzard! If you're anything other than outraged, you're a sheep. Also, smurfing (big deal to all the idiots) is perfectly acceptable, as long as you're willing to pay for the privilege. This is downright pathetic.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
maybe the whole point of not being able to randomly create an account is to prevent smurfing? (which is lame regardless of how you look at it "OH NO I HAVE <60 WIN % I MUST REMAKE!!")
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On August 16 2010 22:14 Abnell wrote:
As long as they don't start selling maps I don't see what the issue is.
Yeah right. They´ll stay with the namechange, of course >_>
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On August 16 2010 22:17 futoM4ki wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 22:14 Abnell wrote:
As long as they don't start selling maps I don't see what the issue is. Yeah right. They´ll stay with the namechange, of course >_>
I don't care if they start selling UMS maps, and I doubt they will start charging for tournament maps/melee maps
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and there goes "there will be no micropayments" i hope that "there will be chat channels" wont and in same manner ....
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