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On August 17 2010 03:31 Merikh wrote:You sound like a guy who didn't buy the game on the first couple days. That message wasn't there until a shit load of people realized they couldn't make smurf accounts or just were too excited and made their account about the first thing they thought of and then there are the handful of people who let others make their account lol, but only people who bought the game the first day would of known that 
The message of only one name was there since day 2 here in europe, at least as far as I can recall 
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If they're so greedy, why aren't they charging for the first name change?
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On August 17 2010 03:36 Seiniyta wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:31 Merikh wrote:You sound like a guy who didn't buy the game on the first couple days. That message wasn't there until a shit load of people realized they couldn't make smurf accounts or just were too excited and made their account about the first thing they thought of and then there are the handful of people who let others make their account lol, but only people who bought the game the first day would of known that The message of only one name was there since day 2 here in europe, at least as far as I can recall
Yeah first couple days sounds about right, but yeah lol that guy talked like that message was there since they opened the servers.
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On August 17 2010 03:38 DivineJustice wrote:
If they're so greedy, why aren't they charging for the first name change?
To fool people like you.
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On August 17 2010 03:40 Archerofaiur wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:38 DivineJustice wrote:
If they're so greedy, why aren't they charging for the first name change? To fool people like you.
To fool me into believing they're not greedy? lol I don't understand how you could possibly need a 2nd name change so.. could've fooled me.. I don't even need the 1st one lol
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I dont get why people are upset over this. Allot of new player took temp name just so they could play faster thinking they could change it later. With this they can pick up a better name, for free.
Of course Blizzard will charge for this, because they can and people will give them free money. If some random person sent you 10$ in the mail would you refuse it? why should they?
Not saying they would be right to charge for everything they will add on in the future but paid name change is fine. Why would you need to change it so many time anyway.
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I am SOOOO gratefull i can get my first name change for free. Honestly it's such a wonderfull service that i'd be willing to pay twice what the game had costed me just for one name change.
Just imagine all the fun you will have with a new name.
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Frickin activision...micropayments have no place in an RTS.
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They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable.
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On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable.
Yes, it's unbelievable that people are complaining about the blatant monetization of a feature that used to be completely free in every previous RTS.
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On August 17 2010 03:43 McCain wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable that people are complaining about the blatant monetization of a feature that used to be completely free in every previous RTS.
But it is free.. the first time..
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On August 17 2010 00:59 Dagobert wrote:
Also... some guy here said that most of the WoW revenue went to the devs.. yea I don't see how a team of, say, 100 people (rough guess, who's got the actual numbers?) eats up $180'000'000 per month.
Don't have numbers per product, but WoW revenue is NOT $180 million per month. Also, I didn't say that the money went mostly to the developers, but to pay all the employees. The vast bulk of Activision-Blizzard's costs are associated with paying salaries and benefits for employees.
If you're interested in actual numbers, these are from the Activision-Blizzard quarterly results for 2Q10 across ALL their products, not just Blizzard products, for the 3-month period ending 6/30/2010:
Revenues from product sales: $643 million
Revenues from subscriptions, licensing, other: $324 million
[note: this is $108 million per month across all products. WoW is part of this but not all.]
Total revenues: $967 million
Cost of Sales: $367 million **
Product development: $104 million
Sales and marketing: $126 million
Total costs and expenses: $667 million
Profit was $301 million for the quarter, of which $82 million was paid in income taxes. Almost all of the net profit after taxes was paid out as a dividend to shareholders.
** Cost of Sales pretty much amounts to the cost of unsold inventory plus additional costs such as royalties and support.
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On August 17 2010 03:43 McCain wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable that people are complaining about the blatant monetization of a feature that used to be completely free in every previous RTS.
Allowing only one name diminished smurfing. That's already a huge improvement by itself. Paid name changes discourage smurfing while allowing sponsored players to preserve their records/match history when changing sponsors. Sounds win/win to me.
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On August 17 2010 03:43 McCain wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable that people are complaining about the blatant monetization of a feature that used to be completely free in every previous RTS.
This.
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On August 17 2010 03:43 McCain wrote:Show nested quote +On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable that people are complaining about the blatant monetization of a feature that used to be completely free in every previous RTS.
Funny, I don't remember any outrage when they never even offered the option to change your name *at all*. I like how nobody cared until they gave you the option.
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Yay!... I might become Loser777 once again
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On August 17 2010 03:42 vesicular wrote:
They go from "You can't change your name ever, sorry" to "We'll give you one name change for free" and people complain. Unbelievable.
I love blizzknights so absurdly loyal
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I remember in battle.net 1.0 I could make as many names as I wanted. That's all that needs to be said.
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There are more then 4000 people working on WoW, from Game Master to the janitor to the inhouse Q&A who try to make the game as bugfree as possible to people checking up the servers, maintenacne, customer service. They still earn alot, but tons and tons of that money goes to the people working as well.
Oh ya, even the janitor at Blizzard is paid quite well
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On August 17 2010 03:46 Loser777 wrote:
Yay!... I might become Loser777 once again
Actually you can't because they don't let you put numbers in name in b.net 2.0.. unless you get a 1/999 chance of getting Loser.777 in character code...
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