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unit
United States2621 Posts
On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote: They don't want you to be changing your name on a hourly basis. You couldn't do this in SC1, but you could just make a new account. You only get 1 account per game in SC2. then set a timer...not charge money | ||
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MichaelJLowell
United States610 Posts
Restricting name changes inhibits the resale value of the game account. It's not happening. | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
That wouldn't really disincentivize constant name changing. Believe it or not, they actually want you to stick to a name. They have put timers on service like this in WoW on top of the fee. So you could get what you want and not at the same time! :D | ||
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unit
United States2621 Posts
On September 14 2011 02:54 MichaelJLowell wrote: Restricting name changes inhibits the resale value of the game account. It's not happening. so you're saying that the resale will be hurt from a game account that cant be sold according to ToS simply by there being a timer on the namechange rather than there not being one? | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
making counter arguments against free name change...when none is needed. make it free, allow it once a month or something... but why is charging money justified? why do some of you agree to pay? really guys, they're giving us less of what we had before and charging more for it. you guys are ok with this? blizzard/activition is simply doing this because they can and its obvious they can with so many people being so happy to pay for a name change.... -,.- | ||
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Steel
Japan2283 Posts
In any case it'd be fun to show off a clan tag without it being a huge commitment. | ||
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rastaban
United States2294 Posts
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tehemperorer
United States2183 Posts
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ShamTao
United States419 Posts
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Inex
Bulgaria443 Posts
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tWR
Canada138 Posts
I feel like the name really loses importance as you add people with Real ID, but obviously having a good name is essential. So if you make a mistake, you should be able to pay to fix it. The Clan support is essential. I feel it binds players with this mythical place known as e-sports  where people want to be like their favourite pros and be apart of a team. I cannot see why it is in such delay, as WoW already has it, how big of a transition does it carry? | ||
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MichaelJLowell
United States610 Posts
On September 14 2011 03:10 unit wrote: so you're saying that the resale will be hurt from a game account that cant be sold according to ToS simply by there being a timer on the namechange rather than there not being one? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. In the real world, no one gives a fuck about the Terms of Service. They care that they can't change their name after they bought their friend's account. (This is also why your ladder ranking never resets and tanking your record as a means of resetting it is considered "smurfing".) | ||
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whatthefat
United States918 Posts
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
On September 13 2011 08:15 ComusLoM wrote: I think the only reason we haven't been so vocal about this is because we've been promised it already. this. everytime we ask they tell "shush, it's coming soon, wait." but lately we have been very vocal so they better get their act together. | ||
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DwmC_Foefen
Belgium2186 Posts
But don't ask a ridiculous $15(for example) for a stupid retarded namechange. Remember Broodwar? Maybe I'm just getting old... | ||
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Battleaxe
United States843 Posts
On September 14 2011 03:49 MichaelJLowell wrote: Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. In the real world, no one gives a fuck about the Terms of Service. They care that they can't change their name after they bought their friend's account. (This is also why your ladder ranking never resets and tanking your record as a means of resetting it is considered "smurfing".) You're speaking to a small portion of users with your thoughts if you ask me, for those of us who have our battlenet accounts tied to multiple games, selling the account would also mean selling access to the other accounts as well. Aside from that, this would also mean any account that still has a free name change for the sake argument equal Mmr and ladder rank as one that does not would be more valuable because of this. If that's the case, allowing everyone to change their names for free let's say every season would actually devalue those accounts that still have their change instead of increasing the value of those without | ||
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YipCraft
United States216 Posts
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oBlade
United States6015 Posts
I agree that a reason nobody would use the given free name change is that they only have one and don't want to waste it. Clan tags or clan support is different, it should have been a no-brainer from the beginning that we wanted it. | ||
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BluePanther
United States2776 Posts
Why this isn't in the game is stupid. I really don't get it. Blizzard is really dropping the ball on this one. If they simply had clan support, none of this would be of issue. | ||
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MichaelJLowell
United States610 Posts
On September 14 2011 04:07 Battleaxe wrote: You're speaking to a small portion of users with your thoughts if you ask me, for those of us who have our battlenet accounts tied to multiple games, selling the account would also mean selling access to the other accounts as well. That is also another means of diminishing the resale value of an account. I tied my StarCraft II license into its own e-mail for a reason. If they can't get people to abide by the Terms of Use, then they'll create restrictions in the program code to make sure none of this stuff happens. On September 14 2011 04:07 Battleaxe wrote: Aside from that, this would also mean any account that still has a free name change for the sake argument equal Mmr and ladder rank as one that does not would be more valuable because of this. If that's the case, allowing everyone to change their names for free let's say every season would actually devalue those accounts that still have their change instead of increasing the value of those without The name change only has value because Blizzard said it does. The ability to change names at any time offers more utility (and consequently, more value) for the game account. | ||
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