New info on name-change/clan-tag feature - Page 10
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SnuggleZhenya
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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BadgerBadger8264
Netherlands409 Posts
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MattyClutch
United States711 Posts
On September 14 2011 02:18 Gingerninja wrote: It's also worth noting, starcraft 2 is a sequel to that previous product, so that stuff should be standard. Yes they are adding stuff.. but it's been a year and all we've had is a half assed chat system integration They've got 2 more sequels to go.. if they want people to buy them they should listen to their customer base, not ignore them, especially when stuff like name changes is an afternoons work at best for one of the interns and increases the value of the product for everyone playing, not to mention at this point a good will gesture to the player base. Well its not like they could just take that stuff and plug it in to SC2. I imagine they wanted to get the game out as fast as possible so they released it at 'good enough and we will patch the rest'. And I am fine with that. They wanted my money and I wanted their game. Now as far as how long its taking them to patch stuff in? I agree it is getting silly. | ||
DarkJester
Canada17 Posts
It would be nice to be able to represent a clan you've created even if you're not a huge, big time professional player. | ||
Selke
Canada27 Posts
I want this service ASAP!!!! | ||
DarkJester
Canada17 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:37 Selke wrote: I think the fact that the paid name change service was promised as "coming soon" has made the community not to vocal about it. I believe it was just expected sooner or later (though i guess sooner is not really an option anymore). I want this service ASAP!!!! Was it an actual name change service that was listed as coming soon or was it just the ability to change your name a second time? I never really checked. | ||
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Milkis
5003 Posts
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Conquerer67
United States605 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
Its this kinda "I only look at excel spreadsheets" design methodology that is really leading me to believe that blizzard is falling completely out of touch with there playerbase. | ||
SaberNodoka
151 Posts
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DarkJester
Canada17 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:44 Milkis wrote: I can't believe we as a community is so desperate that we're willing to pay for namechanges when it should be a feature available for free. Exactly. The concept of paying for it is ridiculous. The ability to add a clan tag should definitely be included as well, in my opinion, and if you had to pay for that I would just shake my head sadly. Honestly the problem with Blizzard is they have so many little things that just show how much they want all your money. | ||
sleepingdog
Austria6145 Posts
and since I have quite a lot of people on the list with whom I just play the occasional game once a week, it was really beyond annoying to figure out who is who again. I even had to make a frickin list for that. Nevertheless I'm completely in favour of a clan-tag-system. Once again, this is something warcraft 3 already had, but I guess it's too much to ask to "update" bnet 2.0 so it contains all the features of bnet 1.... | ||
Roblin
Sweden948 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:44 Milkis wrote: I can't believe we as a community is so desperate that we're willing to pay for namechanges when it should be a feature available for free. haven't several good reasons to "not have free name-change" been presented already? the main one being: "it would make it very much more difficult to track people, cheaters, smurfs, etc. if they can switch names whenever they want." | ||
Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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oBlade
United States5583 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:56 Roblin wrote: haven't several good reasons to "not have free name-change" been presented already? the main one being: "it would make it very much more difficult to track people, cheaters, smurfs, etc. if they can switch names whenever they want." Track people? Stalking is none of your business. Track cheaters? Reports are tied to accounts, not names (which admit to duplicates), and that's handled by Blizzard. Track smurfs? Changing your name doesn't give you a clean slate on the ladder, what's the difference? On September 14 2011 04:56 sleepingdog wrote: and since I have quite a lot of people on the list with whom I just play the occasional game once a week, it was really beyond annoying to figure out who is who again. I even had to make a frickin list for that. You weren't close to the people anyway, it sounds more like your friends list was just too crowded to begin with. You wouldn't have noticed if the free name change had been in the game since the beginning and they hadn't changed names all in one wave. That is, the problem for you wasn't the existence of the feature (which is the status quo in any real game), but its delayed introduction. | ||
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Excalibur_Z
United States12235 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:56 sleepingdog wrote: personally, I'm leaning more and more against free name changes....I noticed that, after the one free change was allowed, literally HALF of my friendslist changed and since I have quite a lot of people on the list with whom I just play the occasional game once a week, it was really beyond annoying to figure out who is who again. I even had to make a frickin list for that. Nevertheless I'm completely in favour of a clan-tag-system. Once again, this is something warcraft 3 already had, but I guess it's too much to ask to "update" bnet 2.0 so it contains all the features of bnet 1.... Yeah agreed, I like the concept of "known" players and recognizable names that don't change frequently. A clan tag system is needed though for players who switch teams. | ||
Lemonhead
Denmark31 Posts
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r3SpaVVn
Germany109 Posts
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LoveIsSimple
United States14 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:56 Roblin wrote: haven't several good reasons to "not have free name-change" been presented already? the main one being: "it would make it very much more difficult to track people, cheaters, smurfs, etc. if they can switch names whenever they want." "A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position." -Source Wikipedia How would this be worse than the theoretical paid name change with a timer? Couldn't someone pay and do the exact same thing? The issue then is the nature of the timer, and not, free/paid as many other people have already said. | ||
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