EPTif u see the other games, it is the same.
i dont think it is possible haveing a ladder for two different games.
Heart of the Swarm will have a Separate Ladder - Page 11
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nehl
Germany270 Posts
if u see the other games, it is the same. i dont think it is possible haveing a ladder for two different games. | ||
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Eogris
United States148 Posts
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
On February 20 2011 01:20 Assirra wrote: ok, please quote the source of that statement cause i think you ppl are either misunderstanding or just making stuff up now. have they EVER done that in their previous game? the awnser is no. I distinctly remember Blizzard saying "You will only need one of the three games to play online, the multiplayer updates will be free.", but I can't for the life of me find any source for that. My guess is that they've been intentionally vague so they could later claim they didn't mean it the way they did. Back then I already thought that this would be too good to be true. Forcing people to buy three full games to play online sucks quite a bit (And there is a big difference between one full game and an expansion and three full(y priced) games, isn't there?). | ||
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Sumwar
Canada199 Posts
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3Form
United Kingdom389 Posts
But no one wants to play the poopy campaign do they... $_$ | ||
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Lightswarm
Canada966 Posts
On February 20 2011 03:13 3Form wrote: They should do what RELIC do, and patch WoL multiplayer up to HotS... But no one wants to play the poopy campaign do they... $_$ hey, i wanna squander my money on hollywood-style campaign and scream like a schoolgirl at the cutscene cinematics... this is just in my wishlist that never comes true, but i wish blizzard allows u to just buy one of the expansion packs to play online instead of getting all 3. | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
PS: they said at the beginning that you'll only need one copy of the game to go for the multiplayer, but since they had to spread their expansions further away and because people wanted more units in the multiplayer they scrapped this idea (there was no intention for them to add units in the mulitplayer at the beginning). community wanted it community gets it. | ||
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Kuroan
Germany3 Posts
Instead, they will allow the new multiplayer units for everyone. Blizzard is not going to be so stupid to fragment its SCII community into further pieces. | ||
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Lipski
Poland373 Posts
Blizzard never did this. With WoW, with sc1, with WC3, it's been always the same. You can play the game you bought. Blizzard will still support and patch vanilla game. You will still be able to play WoL multiplayer, but i assume 99% of active player will move to HotS and eventually to LotV On February 20 2011 03:40 Kuroan wrote: They will not do a separate ladder for HotS. Instead, they will allow the new multiplayer units for everyone. Blizzard is not going to be so stupid to fragment its SCII community into further pieces. have you ever owned any other blizzard game? they always do this, i see no reason why they should not. | ||
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ICA
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Fallen33
United States596 Posts
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Mystogun
United States392 Posts
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
On February 18 2011 13:26 Jotoco wrote: Blizzard said we wouldn't need to buy all 3 games to play multi-player. Guess Activision got in the way of that. Way to keep your promises, Blizzard... First, it's not "all 3 games;" it's always been one game and 2 expansions. Second, they never said that. Ever. They said that you would be able to play the multiplayer with only WoL. And this doesn't interfere with that. They never said you'd be able to play multiplayer using stuff from new expansions without buying those expansions. And that's how it has always been. This is how SC1 and Brood War worked. This is how WC3 and TFT worked. And therefore this is how WoL/HotS/LotV work. The only thing that has changed is that there are 2 expansions instead of just one. On February 18 2011 15:25 Xapti wrote: It is true. The question is whether they changed that idea or not. Looking at the way the FAQ is answered, it looks like it may have been changed so that they are NOT standalone. No, they didn't. I was at BlizzCon08 when they announced "The StarCraft Trilogy". At no time did they say that the 3 games were "standalone" or anything of the like. And mere days afterward they explicitly clarified that HotS and LotV were going to be expansions, not standalone products. But that clarification never got mentioned in the press. No, because during the BC08 presentation, they called them three "products". And thanks to that, people will forever believe that they were intended to be standalone. Even though Blizzard never said it. | ||
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NicolBolas
United States1388 Posts
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oxxo
988 Posts
People probably were fed misinformation from random message boards. | ||
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1-LeeteR
United States78 Posts
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Eogris
United States148 Posts
On February 20 2011 03:43 Lipski wrote: Why would anyone expect HotS to be only single-player expansion, and WoL multiplayer be upgraded to HotS level for free? Blizzard never did this. With WoW, with sc1, with WC3, it's been always the same. You can play the game you bought. Blizzard will still support and patch vanilla game. You will still be able to play WoL multiplayer, but i assume 99% of active player will move to HotS and eventually to LotV have you ever owned any other blizzard game? they always do this, i see no reason why they should not. wait a minute, blizzard has done this before? they first split the RoC game into 5 games with 5 ladders THAN split the frozen throne expansion into 4 games and had 9 total ladders? they split diablo 2 into 5 games? this is completely unique from their previous games | ||
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Mikau
Netherlands1446 Posts
SC1 and BW are different installments of the same game. WoL, HotS and LotV are different installments of the same game. Do you really not see how that's the exact same situation? | ||
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Hardytack
United States25 Posts
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