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On February 07 2011 09:04 Aerakin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 06:56 kuroshiro wrote:
I don't see why this couldn't work out. It doesn't harm them in any way as long as you can only log in one at a time, and helps a lot of people in many ways (off-racing, siblings and smurfs for pro's). This. I mean, how would Blizzard lose out? Since there's no LAN, you need to be online to play. If you want to play, you need to be logged in. Therefore, if you restrict the number of logins for account to one only, you fix your problem of people playing without owning the game. It's not like hosting account info is costly, anyway. It's more that there are some people who outright buy a second CD Key just to do that. Blizzard would lose that.
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True enough, I'll admit I never thought about that.
In that case, quite an asshole-ish decision =(
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Well so far it seems to be just for PTR. If we're just theorizing then 2 accounts would be awesome, but I doubt it will happen, but we can hope.
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This is a bad idea tbh. They will drop sales down the toilet. Although frequent players will choose to have their own key, moderate players that dont go on all day will get away with paying $30 for sc2. This is assuming that only one key can be on bnet at a time.
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Going to be awsome with an account to offrace on without getting completely stomped.
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That would be awesome.
It would let ppl mess around a bit more (try new race for instance) without being forced to either sac their ladder rating or purchase an additional account for full price.
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On February 07 2011 09:32 Silmakuoppaanikinko wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 09:04 Aerakin wrote:On February 07 2011 06:56 kuroshiro wrote:
I don't see why this couldn't work out. It doesn't harm them in any way as long as you can only log in one at a time, and helps a lot of people in many ways (off-racing, siblings and smurfs for pro's). This. I mean, how would Blizzard lose out? Since there's no LAN, you need to be online to play. If you want to play, you need to be logged in. Therefore, if you restrict the number of logins for account to one only, you fix your problem of people playing without owning the game. It's not like hosting account info is costly, anyway. It's more that there are some people who outright buy a second CD Key just to do that. Blizzard would lose that.
yeah, but i think is pretty logical to assume than less than 1% of the players do that so they wouldn't really be losing that much money and would be gaining a lot of love in return
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On February 07 2011 09:37 Aerakin wrote:
True enough, I'll admit I never thought about that.
In that case, quite an asshole-ish decision =( They are a company, the reason all companies are fundamentally 'evil' is because companies that aren't evil are conquered by companies that are, survival of the fittest baby.
It's also why every species on the planet is basically a selfish bastard who cares only about its own survival. It gives you an edge when you compete for food or clients.
I mean, do you think lack of lan was a technical difficulty? Or a reason to shut down KeSPA tournaments fairly easily if they couldn't form an agreement, same with lack of cross-realm play.
On February 07 2011 09:51 Nik0 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 09:32 Silmakuoppaanikinko wrote:On February 07 2011 09:04 Aerakin wrote:On February 07 2011 06:56 kuroshiro wrote:
I don't see why this couldn't work out. It doesn't harm them in any way as long as you can only log in one at a time, and helps a lot of people in many ways (off-racing, siblings and smurfs for pro's). This. I mean, how would Blizzard lose out? Since there's no LAN, you need to be online to play. If you want to play, you need to be logged in. Therefore, if you restrict the number of logins for account to one only, you fix your problem of people playing without owning the game. It's not like hosting account info is costly, anyway. It's more that there are some people who outright buy a second CD Key just to do that. Blizzard would lose that. yeah, but i think is pretty logical to assume than less than 1% of the players do that so they wouldn't really be losing that much money and would be gaining a lot of love in return SC2 has over 1 million sales, times 50 USD... 1% of that is 500 000 USD. If you can get 1% higher sales as a company you take it in this world really.
And I suspect it's a lot more than that.
Also, love has never pleased stock holders.
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The SCII-1 and SCII-2 are exactly the same account for me, I just d/led the latest version of the PTR and I've now got it on my retail version of sc2 now. :/
It appears to do nothing but confuse the crap out of me
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On February 07 2011 09:56 cozzE wrote:
The SCII-1 and SCII-2 are exactly the same account for me, I just d/led the latest version of the PTR and I've now got it on my retail version of sc2 now. :/
It appears to do nothing but confuse the crap out of me
For the PTR its 2 different accounts but for the retail both lead to the main.
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On February 07 2011 09:57 Stealth.Ninja wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 09:56 cozzE wrote:
The SCII-1 and SCII-2 are exactly the same account for me, I just d/led the latest version of the PTR and I've now got it on my retail version of sc2 now. :/
It appears to do nothing but confuse the crap out of me For the PTR its 2 different accounts but for the retail both lead to the main.
Thats interesting.
Wouldn't mind having a smurf 
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Perhaps they are just trying to test their upcoming expansion? Asin SCII-1 will be wings of liberty (current sc2) and SCII-2 will be heart of the swarm?
So that way a player can select what version of the game he/she wants to play (same as Diablo 2/LoD and SC/BW)
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On February 06 2011 01:42 Assirra wrote:
I don't see how this is possible.
thats like getting 2games for the same price for no reason.
prolly just a bug.
lol how? are u joking that makes no sense at all compared to previous blizz games...
anyways, I had noticed this too and didnt really, add it up but. the idea of having multiple accounts via this method seems entirely feasible and i can only hope we hear something from blizz about it
and to the people who claim "some people bought a second account", im sorry, thats just too bad. but we all knew when buying blizz's game that it DID NOT have all of its features ready, and that it would be years before they would be. this is 1 of those features.
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have we had any blizzard talk about this yet? Any bluepost?
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I just bought a second account so here's crossing fingers we won't be getting 2 accounts per key...
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I think this is just what happens when you have multiple keys associated with a single BNET account. I know WoW is this way.
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On February 07 2011 11:04 Lythox wrote:
I just bought a second account so here's crossing fingers we won't be getting 2 accounts per key...
Weird mentality
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On February 07 2011 11:18 Armsved wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 11:04 Lythox wrote:
I just bought a second account so here's crossing fingers we won't be getting 2 accounts per key... Weird mentality Yeah, I mean, if you just bought one, that will mean you get 4 now.
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On February 07 2011 11:18 Armsved wrote:Show nested quote +On February 07 2011 11:04 Lythox wrote:
I just bought a second account so here's crossing fingers we won't be getting 2 accounts per key... Weird mentality
psssh yeah why would he want 4 accounts when he could have 2.
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That would be sick, I want to ladder as zerg and protoss as a change now and again, but I cant ladder the same level as my terran. I hope this happens!
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