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At the end of the day, would any of this, if you'd heard about it before launch (or any of the things we did know pre-launch, like no LAN support, region locked, etc.), would any of this have kept you from buying the game? Absolutely not.
And here's where Actiblizzard has us cold. They've made a really good product, with a deep single-player story line (and 2 more to come) and many improvements to the most popular PC multiplayer game of all time. They know that. They know people will come, people will buy the game. So the guys in the board room, after all the hard work of the artists and programmers and designers, attempt to screw us over however they can.
::shrugs shoulders:: I don't mind paying for the game. That puts food on the table for the folks who slave away at 60 hour work-weeks to make a really great game. And as much as I would love to have multi-region support, LAN, unlimited name changes/accounts... I'm not going to give the guys in the board room any more money on top of the funds I spent for the game.
At the end of the day, they made a great game. We bought it. Everything from here forward is, just like the decision to buy the game, a personal choice.
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On August 16 2010 22:18 Jameser wrote:
I don't care if they start selling UMS maps, and I doubt they will start charging for tournament maps/melee maps
I bet you don't even sleep with your tinfoil hat on, either.
When they get you, I will pray for your soul.
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name changing is not hard code. they should just put a timer on it so you can only change name once every 3 months or so. charging is rediculous
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Oh god the amount of conspiracy idiots is astonishing.
I cannot believe people see this as something BAD.
I still remember well my Wc3 days.
"XYZ wispers: hey what's up"
"me: who are you?"
"I'm ABC, but new account! I mean it's Monday already after all ! And I got 7-0 1v1 on my other acc so why would I risk getting a loss? xP"
Yeah smurfing in Wc3 was utterly stupid. The only positive aspect about it was anonymity for pro gamers I guess.
But in this case you aren't even creating a new Acc, you can just change your name. You're doing something wrong if you're changing your nickname as often as your pants.
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QQ More. Getting a feature you never had before and we're never hinted at getting. AND getting you first name change free. Sounds pretty decent of them if you ask me.
And if you can't decide on a decent name within your initial or free change, then bl.
If name changes were free imagine how many blizzard would have to do in a week. Staffing costs would quickly add up. Even if they made it free and limited you to 1 rename per month the costs could be huge. Even with an automated system there would be setup and maintenance costs. A small fee covers costs, and discourages name change spam.
No big deal. TY blizz for continuing to try to increase the feature set of SC2.
We already know that blizzard hopes to add clan support in the future. Hopefully the clan portion of your name will be changeable without a fee.
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Jameser: are you a Blizzard plant? What's the going rate to spew propaganda on forums these days? I'm looking for a career change.
User was warned for this post
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On August 16 2010 21:20 futoM4ki wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 21:15 Baarn wrote:On August 16 2010 21:08 futoM4ki wrote:On August 16 2010 21:05 Baarn wrote:
I could honestly give a crap. It'll just open up the door for smurfing and the first time is free. Who cares about smurfing, now that you are automatched only? >_> You never got any matches against someone you know on the ladder before? No, not really. Or at least it didn´t catch my eye. They could either say "you can change it once a year" or "you can´t change it at all, think about it when cr8ing your Acc" would be fine with me...... I just dislike the hole micropayment stuff.....
Well you bought into the Blizzard hype machine and they have a history of charging for services that are extra that don't directly have to do with game balance. It's a vanity change. Might as well get used to it cause all online games have micro transactions or the ones that like to make money to pay for executives yacht slips, hangers for their airplanes etc.
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On August 16 2010 22:21 dissonantharmony wrote:
At the end of the day, would any of this, if you'd heard about it before launch (or any of the things we did know pre-launch, like no LAN support, region locked, etc.), would any of this have kept you from buying the game? Absolutely not.
And here's where Actiblizzard has us cold. They've made a really good product, with a deep single-player story line (and 2 more to come)
"deep single-player story line" is where you lost me.
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Urgh... Not changing my name until I know what they are going to do with clan support :p I don't want 2 clan tags in a row
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I don't know why people are complaining, making it costing a fee would prevent people from changing names all the time, and it'll actually help for people who are moving from a team to another one so they can carry their new team's name
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On August 16 2010 22:24 Redmark wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 22:18 Jameser wrote:
I don't care if they start selling UMS maps, and I doubt they will start charging for tournament maps/melee maps I bet you don't even sleep with your tinfoil hat on, either. When they get you, I will pray for your soul.
actually I use a tungsten-cobolt alloy, I find it also helps block out those zeta-waves coming from PQX-45 in the M-19 nebula.
On August 16 2010 22:30 HalfAmazing wrote:
Jameser: are you a Blizzard plant? What's the going rate to spew propaganda on forums these days? I'm looking for a career change.
yes I am, I get 35€ an hour for lurking TL and start posting pro-blizz propaganda at every opportunity.
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On August 16 2010 22:41 cArn- wrote:
I don't know why people are complaining, making it costing a fee would prevent people from changing names all the time, and it'll actually help for people who are moving from a team to another one so they can carry their new team's name
People are complaining because they can. Ever since the real ID debacle, people have been itching for a fight.
That and their tinfoil hats get itchy.
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Message your friends on bnet2 for only .49c a msg! or for only loyal customers who were stupid enough to preorder the game: 5$ for 250 msgs.
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On August 16 2010 22:36 Baarn wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2010 21:20 futoM4ki wrote:On August 16 2010 21:15 Baarn wrote:On August 16 2010 21:08 futoM4ki wrote:On August 16 2010 21:05 Baarn wrote:
I could honestly give a crap. It'll just open up the door for smurfing and the first time is free. Who cares about smurfing, now that you are automatched only? >_> You never got any matches against someone you know on the ladder before? No, not really. Or at least it didn´t catch my eye. They could either say "you can change it once a year" or "you can´t change it at all, think about it when cr8ing your Acc" would be fine with me...... I just dislike the hole micropayment stuff..... Well you bought into the Blizzard hype machine and they have a history of charging for services that are extra that don't directly have to do with game balance. It's a vanity change. Might as well get used to it cause all online games have micro transactions or the ones that like to make money to pay for executives yacht slips, hangers for their airplanes etc.
Oh rly? I never had to spend something (beyond the game) on SC:BW, D2 or WC3. And I didn´t hear Bill Roper was left poor and hungry because of that:D
What so ever.
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The name change costs them how much?
Exactly.
0.00$.
Its just a string in a database somewhere.
I hate what Blizzard has become.
If they wanted to prevent mass name changes (and seriously how would those harm them?) they'd just put a time limit on it. I'm certain they weren't sitting in their headquartes trying to come up with a solution besides charging money.
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@futoM4ki
At the end of the day you KNEW these microtransactions were coming, they stated it multiple times up to release and you still bought the game. Vote with your wallet, don't buy something and complain that it is exactly what you expected it to be. The fact is they worked for at the very lesat 4 years on this game, and they have the perogative to charge whatever they see fit for whatever they want.
@ChickenLips
I too hate when people charge for things they create. It's their engine, their game, their concept, you didn't think that you would be able to change your name when you bought the game, now they are letting you do it for free for the first change and you are complaining? You don't NEED to change your name, so why is this an issue? It's O-P-T-I-O-N-A-L
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wow... FREE name change. Blizzard sure know how to spoil us.
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So they took out a feature that we've always had for free.
And they added it back to the game but charge us money to use it
And we are supposed to be grateful?
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sounds good..at least you wont have to pay and its free
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On August 16 2010 22:20 MadLag wrote:
and there goes "there will be no micropayments"
I can promise you that nobody from Blizzard ever said that. They may have said "no real-money transactions for a benefit that provides an in-game advantage," as they have for WoW, and so far they've stuck to that.
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