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Hi,
So currently there is no option in Battle.net2 to have several characters on just one SC2 account. Why might you need more than one character, you might ask? For me it's mainly that I'm a lot better with my main race then with the other races. So if I would like to start playing a bit of, say, Terran on ladder, I would most likely get matched up with people way over my skill level. So in my case there might be a reason to have another character just for Terran. Also, if you have siblings that want to play trough the game themselves, it would be useful to give them a character of their own, so that they can play their own campaign and have their own ladder stats.
The only reason I see to not give us multiple characters is that it would be a lot easier for good players to create smurf accounts. But this still happens - all it requires is to buy another copy of the game. This problem could potentially be twarted by the matchmaker, but maybe not how the matchmaker works in it's current state ...
Anyway, I was just wondering what's you opinion about this, and generally research if there's a big demand of this feature or not.
Poll: Do you want multiple characters for one account?Yes (835) 82% No (142) 14% Don't care (47) 5% 1024 total votes Your vote: Do you want multiple characters for one account? (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): Don't care
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I really don't believe this needs a poll bro, its a feature that should have been in the game from the start, shouldnt need to pay $60 just to get a practice account
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I think a better solution would be to give each account 4 1v1 ladder standings depending on Race used.
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multiple characters? no.
separate ratings per race? maybe.
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On January 16 2011 11:57 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
I think a better solution would be to give each account 4 1v1 ladder standings depending on Race used.
That is exactly what we need, not multiple accounts
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Smurfing would be too easy to abuse IMO.
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On January 16 2011 11:58 Thegilaboy wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2011 11:57 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
I think a better solution would be to give each account 4 1v1 ladder standings depending on Race used. That is exactly what we need, not multiple accounts
That would also be just as good, except in the case of "sibling wants to play a little bit" scenario 
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On January 16 2011 11:59 Rialz wrote:
Smurfing would be too easy to abuse IMO.
What if blizzard can keep track of what accounts are linked to eachother and then instead of placement matches place them in the same division and then go from ther?
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The seperate rating for each race would be a good idea, or at least you have different MMR's for them.
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Smurfing is a time honored and cherished tradition that should be kept alive at all costs!
In all seriousness though there needs to be some sort of convenient medium. Personally though I think the cost of having smurfs smashing folks would be worth it to have practice accounts minus the 60$ price tag. The benefit of having a practice ladder that you don't care about as much and a "for the reals" ladder was invaluable.
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The only thing I can see wrong with making separate ratings for each race is that given the way things display now, I doubt they would keep the race specific win/loss information separate from the random rating (i.e. winning a game as a random protoss would show up as a win for both random and protoss). If the information was separate then I would love having separate MMR.
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i think they should allow 5 characters for every account! its stupid that a family with 3 kids should buy the game 3 times so that their children can ladder without ruining the stats of their brothers / sisters.
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i would want different ratings for each race under the same profile alias
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Agree with the idea of different ladder standings for each race.
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On January 16 2011 12:00 woozie wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2011 11:58 Thegilaboy wrote:On January 16 2011 11:57 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
I think a better solution would be to give each account 4 1v1 ladder standings depending on Race used. That is exactly what we need, not multiple accounts That would also be just as good, except in the case of "sibling wants to play a little bit" scenario
Haha my younger brother tried to log in with his e-mail address, because he used to play battle.net on wc3, and he was pissed when I told him he needed to buy another game
I would love to have multiple accounts ugh, why is 2.0 so simple?
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On January 16 2011 12:39 GiantEnemyCrab wrote:
i would want different ratings for each race under the same profile alias
If you want this, could you still vote "Yes" - since that's one of the key reasons why you might implement multiple characters or seperate race ratings.
(I dunno how to change to poll to include this option, so just vote "Yes" if you believe that we need somekind of feature that fixes these problems.)
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On January 16 2011 11:57 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
I think a better solution would be to give each account 4 1v1 ladder standings depending on Race used.
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On January 16 2011 12:35 TehForce wrote:
i think they should allow 5 characters for every account! its stupid that a family with 3 kids should buy the game 3 times so that their children can ladder without ruining the stats of their brothers / sisters.
I disagree.
From Blizzards point of view they are a business and in it to make money. The $60 you pay for a copy of starcraft represents the time and effort spent developing the game. Crucially it also pays for the battlenet servers, maintenance and so on. Your $60 buys you an account on their servers. Want multiple accounts? Pay multiple fees.
I totally understand why Blizzard did this, I can also see why people disagree with it, who doesn't want more for less?
Also, down with noobie bashing smurfs!
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On January 16 2011 12:50 Deja Thoris wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2011 12:35 TehForce wrote:
i think they should allow 5 characters for every account! its stupid that a family with 3 kids should buy the game 3 times so that their children can ladder without ruining the stats of their brothers / sisters.
I disagree. From Blizzards point of view they are a business and in it to make money. The $60 you pay for a copy of starcraft represents the time and effort spent developing the game. Crucially it also pays for the battlenet servers, maintenance and so on. Your $60 buys you an account on their servers. Want multiple accounts? Pay multiple fees.
Yes, but by buying SC2, you get the right to be on 24/7 if that's what you'd want to do. (assuming your superhuman enough to be deprived of all basic needs like sleep )
If you have multiple characters on one account, they're not improving on that offer, since you can't be logged in multiple times and hence only one character at the same time can be played.
So in all fairness, they shouldn't charge because you'd use your procured account more often, since you paid for 24/7 access already. (in the case of multiple people in the family playing on the acc)
About the smurf accs, personally i wouldn't mind getting my ass handed to me occasionally because of a smurf acc passing by on the ladder. The advantage of being able to make a distinction between a charactor to experiment with and a character to take serious would take away so much stress 
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I would vote no 1000 times if I could. I hate smurfing and multiple accounts because:
A) You never know who's who
B) It breeds stat-obsession
C) Peope would be less serious about winning and less reliable, especially in random games
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