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An interesting thread was created earlier today and is already 39 pages long (large for BNET forums). It is trending #1 on screddit. The thread details why the paid name change feature that was promised has not been implemented.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3123318915
Foreword: My name is Jake "Sev" Ganz, the leader and manager of the growing team DeadMachine, working on sending some of my players to events like MLG Orlando, MLG Providence and other future competitive events. I, like many managers, want my players to be able to wear the clan's tag in order to represent the team, but like many other cases, many of my players do not have their free name change.
Being aware of World of Warcraft paid account name changes and the clantag support of, for example, Warcraft 3, one may wonder why Starcraft II does not support either one of these features. There's been a "COMING SOON" line for a second name change for over nine months now. With all of this in mind, I decided to inquire and call Blizzard's customer service myself. After asking a few questions, I was informed that no support for paid name changes or clantag support is currently in the works. Contrary to the hopeful message in our Battle.net account profiles, it is not coming soon. I was also met with the revelation that this is because there are not enough people expressing a desire to make this happen. Finally, I was told that the World of Warcraft paid name change support came about from the community asking for it and showing a noticeable desire to have it done, and was given the suggestion to make a thread about it specifically in the Multiplayer and ESports forum, and get people to give their opinion on it. What does this mean? We need to be more vocal about it. If you want Blizzard to add a feature allowing players to change their character name for the same cost as in WoW, post in this thread and tell us what you think! If you really want it, like this post.  Not only would this be far more convenient, but the economical difference it will would have for both the players and Blizzard itself would be a massive improvement over the current drag of having to pay for a new account entirely, which most people are not willing to do. Voice enough of your opinions on this, and hopefully, we can persuade Blizzard to implement this even as soon as Patch 1.4! edit: also for the record, the conversation was entirely over the phone. i apologize that i didn't think to record it. sorry! edit #2: we're #1 on screddit! thanks to everyone who helped make this possible in promoting it, especially Desrow and Thundertoss. http://tinyurl.com/blizznamechange
A blue post on the forum further points out that many people haven't used their free name change.
There are a lot of people who haven't taken advantage of their free name change, and perhaps it's because they didn't see this information when it was released.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/106670823?page=1
Given what we know about this issue I wanted to collect data on the issue
Poll: Do you want a name change or clan tag system added to the game?Yes (2411) 98% No (61) 2% 2472 total votes Your vote: Do you want a name change or clan tag system added to the game? (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
Poll: Did you use your one free name change?No (1527) 60% Yes (1010) 40% 2537 total votes Your vote: Did you use your one free name change? (Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
Poll: If you did not why?I don't want to use my only name change (972) 57% I will most likely never be changing my name (447) 26% I plan on changing my name once at some point but not now (283) 17% 1702 total votes Your vote: If you did not why? (Vote): I will most likely never be changing my name
(Vote): I plan on changing my name once at some point but not now
(Vote): I don't want to use my only name change
The thread first promising paid name change feature
+ Show Spoiler +In addition, beyond this initial free name change, we’ll be launching a service similar to the one we offer for World of Warcraft which will allow additional character name changes for a fee. We'll announce more details on how the free name change and additional paid character name changes will be implemented in the near future.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/572264
Thread from last week (doesnt contain latest info on the issue)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=263479
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The phrase 'near future' already guarantee that it won't happen for the next year.
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Lol really? Ever think maybe some people pick a name they like and keep it?
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Blizz is usually really good about making super awesome stuff. So I expect that we will have this sometime! (Soonhopefully)
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I definitely know about the free name change, but it's too valuable for me to have used it already. I'm relatively happy with the name I have now, and I don't want to change it unless I have a good reason or there's a new name that I absolutely love.
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I assume many have not used their free name change just for the sake of it being their only one.
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clan tag system is even more important, why bnet 2 has 0 clan support is a fucking JOKE.
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blizzard should just let people do it for free. give me one good reason to charge players over this.
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I can see this being a problem for "casual clans", but - seriously - if you're an "up and coming" team why don't you just provide your players with new accounts for tournaments only? Maybe I'm missing the real problem behind it...
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Haha I remember when they said they were coming like a month or two after release. Oh well TT
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Lol yet another EX of how lame blizzard is. You say be vocal but in reality we all know they wont do shit even if we get the whole of africa and chant kumbaya to Blizzard.
Blizzard is not big fans of their community(for sc2 at least) and so far, theyve shown absolutely no recognition of what the fans(and occasionally progamers) want, and I'm pretty sure they never will.
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On September 13 2011 08:08 HellionDrop wrote:
blizzard should just let people do it for free. give me one good reason to charge players over this.
People who change their name every week/month. There's actually a surprising number of them.
On September 13 2011 08:11 BushidoSnipr wrote:
Lol yet another EX of how lame blizzard is. You say be vocal but in reality we all know they wont do shit even if we get the whole of africa and chant kumbaya to Blizzard.
Blizzard is not big fans of their community(for sc2 at least) and so far, theyve shown absolutely no recognition of what the fans(and occasionally progamers) want, and I'm pretty sure they never will.
If Blizzard doesn't listen to their community then I'm sure as hell 90% of the other developers are even worse.
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They should charge like $15 for it or something, so people won't abuse the name change option repeatedly. That's better than buying a brand new game for $50.
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nobody is using their name changer because they know they can only change it once -.-
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On September 13 2011 08:12 katzby wrote:
They should charge like $15 for it or something, so people won't abuse the name change option repeatedly. That's better than buying a brand new game for $50.
Or offer a free name change each new season never to stack. Hence if you dont name change for 3 seasons, you still only have 1 free name change.
However if you name change next season, you'll receive another free name change for the season after.
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I think the only reason we haven't been so vocal about this is because we've been promised it already.
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I wouldn't mind if at the end of each season, a free name change was granted before placement for the new season occured. If you choose to not change your name during this downtime, then you have to pay 10 or 15 bucks for it. Right now begging customer service for a namechange that may or may not happen is downright ridiculous.
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I personally haven't used my name change yet because I know I'll only be able to change it once. If I had the opportunity to either put a clan tag, or even pay for name changes I would definitely change my name. I just don't want to change it, then only want to change it back but be un-able. Come on Blizzard, put one or the other in.
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On September 13 2011 08:06 crms wrote:
clan tag system is even more important, why bnet 2 has 0 clan support is a fucking JOKE.
Agree with this totally, they added many great features for customizing how the game itself looks but nothing community related at all (can't count there shitty chat setup and they even added that like six months late which is pathetic).
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is it really that hard to allow name changing? enough to charge money for it?
is it really that hard compared to how bw did it?
just wondering, is it laziness? money? technically difficult? lack of hands working on d3 and other projects?
so many features missing but blizzard has been so slow on implementing them.
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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.
That's my thought as well.
As for not using the original free one:
One change and one change only makes it a rather scarce commodity. A lot of people will hold onto it because they might one day have yet another name they'd like.
In addition, while people might hang onto their name because they like it, (I'll probably hang onto Passafist forever) people still want the option to change. Even if they'd never use it, people want that ability. Heck, sometimes it's fun to change your name for a day. You might never get such epic names like Count Chocula and Dropula without the ability to name change.
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if people were able to change their name limitlessly... who does it even hurt? I mean really... what does that change?
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imo everything should just spam blizzards site with new threads for name changes!
Or at least blizzard can read this and give free name changes every season -_-. Or let us change like once a month. But do something blizzard Jesus.
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Traditionally, people could change their names on the fly by opening up the console on a whim.
Blizzard doesn't like that.
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On September 13 2011 08:37 blade55555 wrote:
imo everything should just spam blizzards site with new threads for name changes!
Constructive voicing of the communities opinion is and has always been the best method. Spam gets deleted rather quickly.
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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.
yup we just keep waiting and hoping
and then this happens 
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i definitly want the name change feature, what's a good reason for not having it?
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ive lived expecting b.net improvements with heart of the swarm, as an incentive to buy it.
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...this is such bullshit. "We didn't think anyone wanted it"... And I bet you think nobody wants LAN, or to be able to watch replays with their friends, or timestamps in the fucking chat, or the ability to ladder as an off-race without it affecting your main race ladder, or the ability to play across the atlantic ocean, or any comprehensible form of clan support, or tournament support, or a custom game search that actually only returns results pertinent to what you've searched for.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I just believe that there are probably other reasons why these features don't get implemented. "We didn't know the community wanted these things" is just a crock of shit.
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On September 13 2011 08:45 neSix wrote:
...this is such bullshit. "We didn't think anyone wanted it"... And I bet you think nobody wants LAN, or to be able to watch replays with their friends, or timestamps in the fucking chat, or the ability to ladder as an off-race without it affecting your main race ladder, or the ability to play across the atlantic ocean, or any comprehensible form of clan support, or tournament support, or a custom game search that actually only returns results pertinent to what you've searched for.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I just believe that there are probably other reasons why these features don't get implemented. "We didn't know the community wanted these things" is just a crock of shit.
Agreed. It seems to me like Blizzard is just ignorant and lazy TBH.
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I'd use my name change right now if I knew there was some way to change it again. As it is I'm not willing to change it if I can't ever change wit without dropping sixty dollars on a whole new game.
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I had to change my name from nRg because people kept asking if I was in the NrG clan -_-
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im just curious why everyone wants a paid name change. how about a free one?
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Let's be honest here the clan structure was one of the best aspects of warcraft 3 and to this day it's still the reason why i play warcraft 3. I dont see why a similar feature would be impossible to achieve in sc2. As seen in wc3 clans help with the growth of custom games since it adds rivalries and team games that aren't happening in sc2 customs yet still happening on all wc3 servers. Let's be honest sc2 customs are failing due to this lack, and lower league support is also lacking due to this.
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Step 1: Announce future paid name changes.
Step 2: Don't implement name changes because nobody demanded it because it was already announced.
That's cool Blizzard.
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Just thinking about LAN's, part of the issue with no name change is that there is no LAN support. That is, when playing with friends, you could just goof around and makeup whatever names you wanted. Like really whimsical stuff. (We were playing on a new map and the entire game, my friend was lost the entire game and didn't know where to send his armies, so he just renamed himself JonthelostSmith for the rest of the evening.) NerdAnnointing or thematic names or whatever. You get into strange moods and it's fun to rename just in local games with your friends (or grab a bunch of friends and ladder.)
That's completely gone and it's really unfortunate
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It's "do you really want chat channels?" all over again.
I seriously wonder what the hell is wrong with this company
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you should add a "dont care" to the first poll. i never intend to change my name; i have been using it since 1998, but i could care less whether other people change their name or add clan tags.
i see this whole name change thing as something only a very select few people want and that is why blizzard doesn't really care about it. that being said, it seems kind of stupid for them not to implement something that allows name changes for a few extra bucks. although the procedural hassle and developing the programming for it may make it not cost-effective, which is what businesses care about. i'll let people who know consider that.
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How about a free name change thread? We shouldn't have to pay for something as minute as this. Apparently Blizzard is incapable of coding this? Valve seemed to do it for Steam without hassle................................
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Clan/team system is coming. I wouldn't worry about a name change system for that.
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Haha like i once wrote, if people don't use the free namechange blizzard will see this as not necessary to implent.
On the other hand its good to see people have no idea how value added service works. If they find out the game is generally doomed.
I can imagine the look on the devs face when they saw this thread and so many posts. And they were like wth ? no one used the stuff for free... damn people if its for free they overlook it, but if there is a dollar sign on it they buy it and complain that it costs something.
But don't worry, if they posted something like this. They will look into it again, probably throw out a notice on bnet and give you a chance to show your opinion again. (I changed my name to the same name, will disable the free one anyway when they will go over to the payment one, thats no moneymaking ~.~ just keeps it simple for them)
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This is pretty damn silly.
"We decided not to implement it because nobody was using the free one" is the basis of their argument? Surely they realise that that's going to be skewed?
If i know I only have one name change available to me at the moment, I'm going to be a lot more careful changing my name than if I could do it whenever I liked (even for money). Same deal for clan support; lots of people don't have a clantag in their name because they know they'd never be able to get rid of it if they used their one change to put it there.
Far out. Some quality logical deduction from the high-ups, here.
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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.
^^ what he said
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Would LOVE to see something done about this. I find it so weird that Blizz wouldn't allow name changes to occur more than once - what's the big deal if somebody wants to change their name?
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I can't help but feel that this is exactly what blizzard want: They want US to justify them for making this cost money. Clan support was in War 3 and MANY other stats features in BNet. They are only waiting for people to beg to them for another opportunity to charge additional money.
Blizzard is looking more like a cell phone company with hidden charges and stuff.
No I won't change my name just for the sake of not participating in this poor excuse for money for something that I don't feel equals the cost of development.
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We need this implemented badly. Please recognize this Blizzard.
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I don't understand how you can sit on such a large income and have literally nobody work on this game, whether it be for UI - balance - or something like changing your name. It's not them being lazy it's them being like a corporation/business who wants to keep all their money, higher as few people as possible, and put as little money as possible into their product as possible, and then turn around and milk everyone for everything they can when possible.
It's pretty disgusting actually, that's the problem with the U.S :/
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I'd be willing to pay for a second name change. More importantly though it will help out all the pro players that move to different teams - seeing them play with their old tags is confusing for the spectators and actually a detriment to teams and their sponsors.
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I don't even know where to begin, how can it not be anymore clear that the community wants clan support and name changes? There have been many threads on the subject even though many of them were clumped together with everything that's wrong with bnet 2.0.
This has been an issue since day one for alot of players, and I get a feeling of deja vu from the whole "Do you really want chat channels?". Now we hear that these features are not even in development even though blizzard has said that they want to implement them, and all because the community supposedly doesn't seem to want them, say whaaaaaa???!
Are we supposed to reassue blizzard all the time that we want clan support and name changes even though we "know" it's coming? Does that seem really stupid or is it just me?
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not many people know about it? I'm sure a lot of people know about the free name change, but like me, are saving it -.-
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That blue post basically means GTFO. I seriously can`t believe they are using that logic. There is a huge thread already about it and this feature was expected for a year now and then they come up with THAT bullshit. The disconnect from the fanbase amazes me.
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Boby Kotick say: "Let them pay for another accounts. Lots of teams and other biger organizations in esport will do it and we'll get 60$ instead of 10$".
BTW. I don't want pay name change. I want can support. I don't want to pay every time I change team or clan.
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Sometimes Blizzard seems so out of touch with its fan base. Although a lot of this can probably be blamed on their CEO and his beliefs/philosophies.
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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.
Exactly.
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I encourage u all to post / like the thread @blizz forums
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either
1.) a fee you pay any time to change your name any time
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2.) allow one name change per season.
I think #2 is more desirable because it enforces players who clan hop to at least try and make their clan work for a season and I think it's a fresh start to be able to pick your name and race (if you want) each season.
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It's really not about how many people use the free name change. I haven't used it, and probably won't. But I'm not a top-level player who is on a team and needs to be able to have a particular tag, etc. Maybe I'd put a clan tag there someday. But even though I would never use it, I'd benefit from paid name changes existing, because it's good for the pro scene, which I like to watch. They really shouldn't take how many people used the free one as evidence about the importance of the paid one.
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I really don't care about the name change thing, but what really boggles my mind is that there is no clan support. WC3 had it, and it was pretty good. You had clan tag next to your name, ranks within the clan, and each clan had their own chat channel. It's a great way for friends and like minded people to get together and play with each other. They had it in WC3, how difficult would it be to implement a similar system in SC2?
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Yeah... Clan support is what we should ask for not pay name change.
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For the love of god clan support! That would actually get me playing regularly again. Something similar to WC3 or better please!
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no support for paid name changes or clantag support is currently in the works. Show nested quote +In addition, beyond this initial free name change, we’ll be launching a service similar to the one we offer for World of Warcraft which will allow additional character name changes for a fee. We'll announce more details on how the free name change and additional paid character name changes will be implemented in the near future.
Way to go blizz. Just giving your customers lip service and giving them false hope :/
I've never been a customer of Blizzard prior to SC2, but seeing the features in their previous games makes me wonder so much about why they've gone backwards... Other than balance changes and small tweaks to game performance on hardware, it really makes me wonder what Blizzard is doing to support their seemingly biggest game at the moment (WoW is probably bigger than SC2, I don't know for sure)
Generic opinion about Blizzard's service #56173841295373. :/
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I've been trying to find a clan to join that isn't long gone dead, or actually does something besides just changing your name. I havn't used my free name change for the above reason, but if i did find such a clan, I would have to be absolutely sure this clan was going to survive, be fun, and i'll actually be in the clan for some time. Once i changed my name to joedoedumclan now im stuck with this name when the leader decides its too much hassle to plan clan stuff and it dies. awesome.
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It still baffles me (I said it a long time ago along with many many others) that name changes and especially an integrated clan system aren't STANDARD. Countless other games have included these features without backlash. It really makes one wonder what was going through the heads of the Blizzard team when they released SC2 with no clan support whatsoever.
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I don't understand why this is so hard for them to just do. The mechanic is already there. All they have to do is start collecting money for it.
I confuse.
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Exactly my sentiment OldManZerg... It seems like its implementation would benefit both the players and Blizzard. It is literally insane.
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I only want one more free name change, I'm not going to pay for another, so not upset if they don't implement it...
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Name change im indifferent about CLAN tag i want that Shit NOWWWW.
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You know I really wish Blizzard would be more transparent about these issues and actually address them.
They also need to own up to the fact that bnet 2.0 has less features then the original already.
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On September 13 2011 11:38 OldManZerg wrote:
I don't understand why this is so hard for them to just do. The mechanic is already there. All they have to do is start collecting money for it.
I confuse.
They collect more money by making people buy a $40-$80 (depending on region!) game again. Doesn't mean it isn't ridiculous, but if everytime someone wants to change their name they buy a new game -> $$ for Blizzard! Of course then you argue that paid name change would be cheaper -> more people would buy it -> equal/greater $$ for Blizzard. Who knows man, WHO KNOWS.
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I don't see why this is an issue, every other game allows for free name changes, i.e. steam games and other popular mediums. There is no reason why players should not be allowed to change their handle. And if they aren't allowed to change their handle for ladder reasons, maybe players will get repaired up? idk. Players should at least be able to add a clan tag to their name. I love my name, but it makes a lot more sense if i add my steam clan tag to it so people on the team will recognize me. I'm just gold but playing clans together with a name is fun and it brings even more of a community feel to the game.
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Let's get this changed folks!
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post on the bnet thread if you havent already
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Incase no one knows. Clan system support for BNET is begin added in HOTS. It wont be released for at least another 1/2 year. Also, Blizzard isn't going to add anything they don't want to add. LAN, profile stats, & bigger chat channels most likely will not be put in. I assume not anyways.
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On September 13 2011 11:45 DreamChaser wrote:
Name change im indifferent about CLAN tag i want that Shit NOWWWW.
i want a namechange and a clantag
namechange= to remove old clantag
clantag= obvious reasons
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On September 13 2011 12:08 Mafs wrote:
Incase no one knows. Clan system support for BNET is begin added in HOTS. It wont be released for at least another 1/2 year. Also, Blizzard isn't going to add anything they don't want to add. LAN, profile stats, & bigger chat channels most likely will not be put in. I assume not anyways.
Source?
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On September 13 2011 12:08 Mafs wrote:
Incase no one knows. Clan system support for BNET is begin added in HOTS. It wont be released for at least another 1/2 year. Also, Blizzard isn't going to add anything they don't want to add. LAN, profile stats, & bigger chat channels most likely will not be put in. I assume not anyways.
I have heard otherwise
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So that blizzard dota was announced to be released like nine months ago also right? or did i mix it up with starjeweled? It seems like "battle.net 2.0" is harder to work in then the "old" battle.net? or why does it take such a long time too do anything for blizzard? ahh, they are all playing Diablo 3 ofc ^_^
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The only reason I do not plan to use my name change is because I only have one. So I will save it for a time when it is necessary. If there were ways to change it more than once then I would not be so stingy.
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I don't want to use my name change because I'm happy enough with the name I have now and if I change it I'm afraid I'll hate my new name and won't be able to switch back. Also the feeling of being able to change my name if I ABSOLUTELY have to is comforting.
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This is honestly why I never read discussion threads on Team Liquid. It becomes a total group-think circle jerk about the issue of today. Take the Puma incident for example, the Team Liquid community raged for two whole days about it as if it were the death of e-sports but any care for the whole debacle died in less than a week. At least /r/starcraft has people who aren't complete idiots and understand that programming things such as clan support, name changes, and automated tournaments, take time and manpower that is currently being directed to HOTS. Blizzard is a good company that cares about it's community; take a look at WoW, Blizzard is practically whipped by the community there.
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I'm really surprised a clan tag feature hasn't been added yet, one where you have to be authorized or approved to use a certain tag. As for the name change though, I'll probably never use mine.
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On September 13 2011 11:48 Rampager wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 11:38 OldManZerg wrote:
I don't understand why this is so hard for them to just do. The mechanic is already there. All they have to do is start collecting money for it.
I confuse. They collect more money by making people buy a $40-$80 (depending on region!) game again. Doesn't mean it isn't ridiculous, but if everytime someone wants to change their name they buy a new game -> $$ for Blizzard! Of course then you argue that paid name change would be cheaper -> more people would buy it -> equal/greater $$ for Blizzard. Who knows man, WHO KNOWS.
I doubt that the amount of money made by people rebuying the game to change their name exceeds the amount of money they would make from a name change microtransaction.
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On September 13 2011 12:48 0mgVitaminE wrote:
I'm really surprised a clan tag feature hasn't been added yet, one where you have to be authorized or approved to use a certain tag. As for the name change though, I'll probably never use mine.
You know, Blizzard needs to sell Heart of the Swarm / Legacy of the Void... Clan Tag feature will come with HoS.
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Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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probably if we voice out our opinions on balance, they'll address it. that hasn't worked out despite numerous outcries from the community.
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i really miss the clan tag so please at least introduce that because it's also quite easy to do...and make it free obviously -_-
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As soon as I updated "Operation Paid Name Change" thread I saw this one lol. Glad to see people still working towards getting Blizzard to offer this service.
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On September 13 2011 08:45 neSix wrote:
...this is such bullshit. "We didn't think anyone wanted it"... And I bet you think nobody wants LAN, or to be able to watch replays with their friends, or timestamps in the fucking chat, or the ability to ladder as an off-race without it affecting your main race ladder, or the ability to play across the atlantic ocean, or any comprehensible form of clan support, or tournament support, or a custom game search that actually only returns results pertinent to what you've searched for.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I just believe that there are probably other reasons why these features don't get implemented. "We didn't know the community wanted these things" is just a crock of shit.
I was working on a reply to this thread when I saw this and decided it summed up my frustrations with the complete lack of features in bnet 2.0 well enough.
As for paying for a name change, that's just lol. You can do that shit for free on Steam and thousands upon thousands of websites that involve user accounts. Hell, in SC1 if I really wanted a new name I'd just make a new account and start playing from scratch again. Not having my record carry over was kind of a pain, but at least I wasn't being charged for it.
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What I'm really waiting is the clan support feature, it is incredible that they didnt think about implementing something as basic as that (well, we have to remember that they didnt want to implement a chat for a long time...).
And I didnt use my free name change because I don't want to change name, it is as simple as that.
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i think most people changed their names because they needed to change for a clan. having a clan tag system would circumvent this issue.
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On September 13 2011 21:42 Roggay wrote:
What I'm really waiting is the clan support feature, it is incredible that they didnt think about implementing something as basic as that (well, we have to remember that they didnt want to implement a chat for a long time...).
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Do you really think Blizzard are that stupid ? Blizzard job is to sell games. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void were planned from the beginning, and guess what ? These games need to have BNet "new" features in addition to new units/maps...
I guess they planned chat channels in HoS as well but with all the whines they decided to finally make it in 1.2, this is why chat channels are so simple (extended chat window in fact).
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Please Blizzard implement this! We've been waiting for so long
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Thanks Blizzard for letting me pay money to get a service i had 12 years ago for free.
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Never got my free name change
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This is a plain joke, i thought the paidname change was already implemented for months...
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Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2
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I didnt use my namechange becuase if I would join a clan I had to pay money to change my name again. And even if I would join a clan and change my name - what if I join another clan at another time? I wont pay money for this. If I would be allowed to change my name once in 3 month or sth like that I would use the function
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A paid namechange service is the best way of doing it, to be honest.
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On September 13 2011 21:47 Shade_CsT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 21:42 Roggay wrote:
What I'm really waiting is the clan support feature, it is incredible that they didnt think about implementing something as basic as that (well, we have to remember that they didnt want to implement a chat for a long time...).
. Do you really think Blizzard are that stupid ? Blizzard job is to sell games. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void were planned from the beginning, and guess what ? These games need to have BNet "new" features in addition to new units/maps... I guess they planned chat channels in HoS as well but with all the whines they decided to finally make it in 1.2, this is why chat channels are so simple (extended chat window in fact).
If they are thinking like that yes they are THAT stupid. They are losing a lot of people (mostly the casuals) by having a subpar bnet/features.
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I got my name changed with persistance for free. It is possible
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I'm saving my name change when I actually GET a clan.
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
pretty insane if you asked me, from the point of view of player or even developer :S
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TBH, is it so hard to make it happen ? I mean from programing point of view, I don't think it's challenging to make this sort of system. Also, a clan-tag feature would be awesome.
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I dont know, why there isnt a permanent free namechange option!
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I'm going to get everyone I know to help post a +1 in that thread(:
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Tbh i don't see why we have to pay to change name... In some other games I have played you can make multiple accounts with ease, nevermind changing your name.
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I won't ask them to allow me to shove more money up their ass. They said that the feature would come soon and now they want me to ask them to implement a feature that should be a standard, a free standard? not with me blizz...
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Isn't this a little sad ?
Players, therefore customers, shouldn't need to be vocal and make requests for features that Blizzard always implemented in their games before.
Changing your nick was always straightforward, immediate and free for most of online games since a decade. Especially for SC2 it should be common sense to add this... And please don't tell me it's because of BNet 2.0, a company like Blizzard clearly have the ressources to spec up and improve it.
This should have been here since the begining... We are wasting Blizzard's time and our time.
I know it's just a detail and a minor feature but the game was released more than a year ago and we still are asking for features.
What will we request from Blizzard when HotS get released ?
Oh and guys don't forget to request for texture and sound effects for Legacy of the Void, just in case...
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
it's sad because it's true
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Does changing your name reset your MMR as well?
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On September 13 2011 22:57 SecondSandwich wrote:
Does changing your name reset your MMR as well?
lol no why would it? It doesn't change anything besides your name (I'm not even sure if it changes your character code). Your stats/achievments/mmr/ladders etc. will remain the same.
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It literally took them longer to write that message about "community support" than it would have taken to implement the feature.
It's actually implemented already. We have an automated free name change. It's literally 1 line of SQL code (an Update statement).
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
All people who would pay for a name change need check out that image. Apparently it was possible 12 years ago and other companies (valve) do it now for FREE. We should not be begging for a paid service when it should be free
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Im ok with not being able to change my name for free, I actually think it should be a pretty steep price to prevent smurfing but i think it's insane that there's no clan tag feature Oo
Oh and also this.
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
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On September 13 2011 23:04 laggikoN wrote:Im ok with not being able to change my name for free, I actually think it should be a pretty steep price to prevent smurfing but i think it's insane that there's no clan tag feature Oo Oh and also this. vv
It's got no effect on smurfing, since it's just your name, not your account/MMR/ranking.
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On September 13 2011 21:47 Shade_CsT wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 21:42 Roggay wrote:
What I'm really waiting is the clan support feature, it is incredible that they didnt think about implementing something as basic as that (well, we have to remember that they didnt want to implement a chat for a long time...).
. Do you really think Blizzard are that stupid ? Blizzard job is to sell games. Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void were planned from the beginning, and guess what ? These games need to have BNet "new" features in addition to new units/maps... I guess they planned chat channels in HoS as well but with all the whines they decided to finally make it in 1.2, this is why chat channels are so simple (extended chat window in fact).
Do you really think Blizzard is going to sell copies of HoS because of a name change system?
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On September 13 2011 23:04 laggikoN wrote:Im ok with not being able to change my name for free, I actually think it should be a pretty steep price to prevent smurfing but i think it's insane that there's no clan tag feature Oo Oh and also this. vv
So have your MMR tied to your account. It's not like there isn't simple ways around a problem like smurfing
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
Man that is just sick really -.-'. Damn Blizzard i miss the old battle net!
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lol the only free change is not used cause its saved for better times ^^
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On September 13 2011 23:10 CoR wrote:
lol the only free change is not used cause its saved for better times ^^
Yup, I don't want to change my name and then suddenly need to change it later on for something important finding that I have to pay out for a whole new copy.
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It changes your character code each time the name is changed.
It did when I used the free name change and the second time. Different number every time.
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On September 13 2011 23:16 VaMp wrote:
It changes your character code each time the name is changed.
It did when I used the free name change and the second time. Different number every time.
My code did not change... I don't think you are correct here.
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The only reason we haven't been bugging them like crazy over this is because it was promised and not implementing a clan system when all previous games had one is borderline to malpractice when running a business.
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On September 13 2011 23:21 KraVe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 23:16 VaMp wrote:
It changes your character code each time the name is changed.
It did when I used the free name change and the second time. Different number every time. My code did not change... I don't think you are correct here.
My code changed, 100% sure. 1216 to 703. I remember both numbers clearly. Coincidence? Weird yours didn't :\
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On September 13 2011 23:37 Buddhism101 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 23:21 KraVe wrote:On September 13 2011 23:16 VaMp wrote:
It changes your character code each time the name is changed.
It did when I used the free name change and the second time. Different number every time. My code did not change... I don't think you are correct here. My code changed, 100% sure. 1216 to 703. I remember both numbers clearly. Coincidence? Weird yours didn't :\
My code changed as well when i changed my name. Maybe you were lucky enough that it didn't change, or you got the same code again.
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I would not need a name change system if they were to put in clan support tbh. My Alias will never change now I have had it for 5 years in various other games.
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On September 13 2011 23:06 Zorgaz wrote:Man that is just sick really -.-'. Damn Blizzard i miss the old battle net!
That link is ridiculous. (the content I mean) how much stuff they removed and can't even be begged to put it back in for cost despite people offering to throw them money. (which they shouldn't... there is thousands of ways to stop abuse of name change without charging for a service which should have been free at launch anyway)
ps.. what did facebook integration do anyway? it added a couple of people to my B.net account who play Warcraft... i can't view my stats on facebook, it doesn't do anything! it's not integration, it's not different from importing an email list from yahoo or google.
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hmmm...what if Blizzard provided a free name change at every start of the season? Before playing the placement match, the user will have an option to change his name. 
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Get amongst it Blizzard, this isn't a hard change imo.
Chat rooms came fast and that would've been a lot trickier to implement than allowed paid name change service or clan tags.
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This is utterly retarded. Why should we even have to pay money to change our in-game names? SC 1, anyone?
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we only have one name change (until now, at least). why should someone use it and maybe waste it, if there's no date on when the paid name change should come out?
then they answer: not many people used their free name change, so we didn't plan on adding the payable option.
HERP DERP.
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
Some of these are annoying, but a huge chunk of them are very much "who the hell cares?" items.
This image exists simply to get a rise out of people who don't read it very closely. They just see a bunch of red and green checks with all the green in B.Net 1.0 and shake their fist with righteous rage, "Look how much Blizzard took away from me!".
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Oh yeah we should make threads on battle.net about how we want atleast the same battle.net as we had and not a worse one for the new games... god damn is this serious? i hope blizzard/bnet are swimming in money and too bussy to do any of their supposed work. Pathetic behavior by the company
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On September 14 2011 01:55 Brainling wrote:Some of these are annoying, but a huge chunk of them are very much "who the hell cares?" items. This image exists simply to get a rise out of people who don't read it very closely. They just see a bunch of red and green checks with all the green in B.Net 1.0 and shake their fist with righteous rage, "Look how much Blizzard took away from me!".
is a 2010 system supposed to be worse than a 1999 one though? The fact that it's worse in any way is awful.
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How many people would swap the facebook integration, portraits,achievement system, and bnet 2.0 chat channels for name changes, clan support, and bnet 1.0 chat channels?
I'm thinking 90% of people if not more?
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On September 14 2011 02:05 NKexquisite wrote:
How many people would swap the facebook integration, portraits,achievement system, and bnet 2.0 chat channels for name changes, clan support, and bnet 1.0 chat channels?
I'm thinking 90% of people if not more?
Percent of what? I'm sure atleast 70% of the total sc2 population doesn't give a fuck about any of that.
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On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png
It is worth noting that several things on that list were not in B.net when it launched. I imagine they will add stuff as they go just like with SC1.
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On September 14 2011 02:11 MattyClutch wrote:It is worth noting that several things on that list were not in B.net when it launched. I imagine they will add stuff as they go just like with SC1.
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.
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On September 14 2011 02:10 Lorch wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:05 NKexquisite wrote:
How many people would swap the facebook integration, portraits,achievement system, and bnet 2.0 chat channels for name changes, clan support, and bnet 1.0 chat channels?
I'm thinking 90% of people if not more? Percent of what? I'm sure atleast 70% of the total sc2 population doesn't give a fuck about any of that.
That was my point. Wasn't it?
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On September 14 2011 02:18 NKexquisite wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:10 Lorch wrote:On September 14 2011 02:05 NKexquisite wrote:
How many people would swap the facebook integration, portraits,achievement system, and bnet 2.0 chat channels for name changes, clan support, and bnet 1.0 chat channels?
I'm thinking 90% of people if not more? Percent of what? I'm sure atleast 70% of the total sc2 population doesn't give a fuck about any of that. That was my point. Wasn't it?
From what I got your point was that a large majority of the population would swap some of the sc2 features to get all the good sc1 stuff back, my point was that the majority just doesn't care whether they have the current sc2 features or some bw features.
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why no "dont care" option at the first poll?
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On September 14 2011 02:19 Lorch wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:18 NKexquisite wrote:On September 14 2011 02:10 Lorch wrote:On September 14 2011 02:05 NKexquisite wrote:
How many people would swap the facebook integration, portraits,achievement system, and bnet 2.0 chat channels for name changes, clan support, and bnet 1.0 chat channels?
I'm thinking 90% of people if not more? Percent of what? I'm sure atleast 70% of the total sc2 population doesn't give a fuck about any of that. That was my point. Wasn't it? From what I got your point was that a large majority of the population would swap some of the sc2 features to get all the good sc1 stuff back, my point was that the majority just doesn't care whether they have the current sc2 features or some bw features.
I'd have to disagree, I would think the majority would want free name changes, clan support, lan, win/loss stats, map stats, etc, etc, etc, etc
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I'm not going to use my only name change to change it to a clan that I might not be in, in one years time.
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i just want clan tags, as the big issue is many people with the exception of gosi terran keep the same name and just change clans/teams and stuff way more often.
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Sad to see players actually begging Blizzard for a payed name change and Blizzard conveniently "forgetting" that people have been asking for this since the Beta.
And including the statistic that "not all people have used their free name change" when it's a unique action and the next step would be 50€ for a new account is nothing but a bad joke.
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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.
Yeah, this is ridiculous. Should we have to bring it up every 2 weeks? We said we wanted it and they said, okay we're working on it, and then.......?!?
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it sickens me that blizzard wants to charge for name change.
i cant believe it has become the norm and people are just accepting it.
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I just chimed in my support, these are features for which there should not have been this much delay.
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On September 14 2011 02:41 jinorazi wrote:
it sickens me that blizzard wants to charge for name change.
i cant believe it has become the norm and people are just accepting it.
Abusing name changes and changing your name every single day would be really stupid, imo. A simple 5 dollars to put in your new clan tag is simple and easy enough.
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On September 14 2011 01:55 Brainling wrote:Some of these are annoying, but a huge chunk of them are very much "who the hell cares?" items. This image exists simply to get a rise out of people who don't read it very closely. They just see a bunch of red and green checks with all the green in B.Net 1.0 and shake their fist with righteous rage, "Look how much Blizzard took away from me!".
actually...i find that i would want pretty much all of those old features
better chat rooms that dont glitch and dont mark you for spam when you're saying completely different things w/o caps but you're just saying it in blocks rather than typing it all out at once
unique names...i kinda hate how i can go onto sc2 ranks and type in search for my name and then see 5-10 people.....
crossregion play...we cant even play with people on other servers without paying another $60...thats just bs
player rankings...we sort of have it with sc2ranks but its still nothing compared to the iccup rankings were
teamgames...i dont really care but a lot of people play team games and would care
custom games....their system for this frustrates the hell out of me. it takes me forever to find a map when i type in the entire name of it? bs
tournaments...blizz, wasnt this supposed to be your esport? lol stuff like z33k dailies is fine for me
portraits, i just dont care about these unless we were able to upload pics (through an obscenity screening ofc
clan support...this should be there no question...i do believe blizz even promised it a while back
LAN, YES WE REALLY WANT LAN BLIZZARD, LOOK AT MLG/GSL DISCONNECTS FOR IMPORTANT GAMES T___T
name change...its not really fair for people to be stuck with the same name for forever especially if its not original names
replays, this one is really better/worse, the replay is better for the individual but worse when you're trying to teach someone or something like that because then it has to be emailed and timed over skype rather than just join a game and use chat >.>
ingame commands, i just miss these lol its so annoying for me to not be able to block people who bm me ingame allgame
blizz support...as if they really do anything in the first place, at least with sc2
facebook integration...words cannot express how pointless this is...if you want to play with people you know you just talk to them rather than have them suddenly playing through facebook
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On September 14 2011 02:41 jinorazi wrote:
it sickens me that blizzard wants to charge for name change.
i cant believe it has become the norm and people are just accepting it.
i know T_T the worst part is, is that people aren't just accepting it they're suggesting it :/
well blizz is a corporation run by activision >.>
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I think the option to name change every season makes the most sense... Perhaps we should be causing an uproar for this?
Blizzard had their time to implement a PAID name change, and if we as a community should get vocal about it, i think we can change it up a little?
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On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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.
On September 14 2011 02:47 Noktix wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:41 jinorazi wrote:
it sickens me that blizzard wants to charge for name change.
i cant believe it has become the norm and people are just accepting it. Abusing name changes and changing your name every single day would be really stupid, imo. A simple 5 dollars to put in your new clan tag is simple and easy enough.
People shouldn't have to pay $5 for clan/team/guild/no-girls-club support.
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Gee, it's almost like Battle.net 2.0 was designed in order to inflate the price of goods and services that could be sold through the service and not about the best interests of the consumer. Dare I say that I'm shocked that Blizzard decided not to follow through with these options when the company realized they couldn't make any money from them. This also probably goes a long way in explaining why Battle.net 2.0 doesn't have a competent stats overlay.
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On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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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On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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
Restricting name changes inhibits the resale value of the game account. It's not happening.
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On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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
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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On September 14 2011 02:54 MichaelJLowell wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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 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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why do you guys still support a fee for name change when it deserves to be free...o.O
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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I hope they add clan tags. I don't plan on changing my name, but it makes sense they implement that too.
In any case it'd be fun to show off a clan tag without it being a huge commitment.
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Really surprised how many people have used it and how many haven't because they don't want to use up their name change. I don't ever plan on changing mine so I thought it wasn't that big of an issue. That said I hope they add it for all the people out their, just put a cost or timer on it so it isn't abused.
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Clan tag is the only sensible thing since pros are known by name and it's really hard as an organizer to hype up your tournament when a few of your players changed their names so in every sentence you mention their new name you also have to add "formerly known as"
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More than any name changing service, I would really like some clan support - it's an extra stress on teams that have to personally purchase new accounts for their players just to show a single clan tag, in addition to the extra hassle that comes with setting up a new account. Just let us represent our clans!
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The only reason I want a name change is because the current SC2 bnet system doesn't support clan tags. I don't want to change my name for free or for money, I just want a clan tag system. Blizzard not working on a clan tag system is beyond me seriously. They want an e-sports game and yet pro players are forced to buy a new game in order to change their name, which doesn't make sense to anyone but Blizz. FIX IT DAMN IT.
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I agree with most of the players, I think having more clan support is the big thing.
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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On September 14 2011 03:10 unit wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:54 MichaelJLowell wrote:On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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 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?
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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Clan tags would be nice. But honestly, I'm baffled by how somebody can end up with a name they don't like after not one but two chances to decide. With the obvious exception of pro players changing teams.
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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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I don't get why people are being OK to pay for namechanges. That's like the dumbest thing ever to spend your money on. Just make it free, and if everybody is being a crybaby and changes name every week, put on a timer or something.
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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On September 14 2011 03:49 MichaelJLowell wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 03:10 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:54 MichaelJLowell wrote:On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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 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? 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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I still believe we should have a free name change per major patch. If you do not use the name change, it will not stack. It will stay at one. Thus making the constant free name change not a worry. And we don't have to pay even more money to blizzard o_e...They make enough money off WoW.
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$15 for a name change is obviously unconscionable. Certain services or products are worth their price. Others are plainly cash vacuums. Rearranging a 10 character string is not worth more than a pizza. Rearranging it four times ($15*4) is not worth the price of a new studio game title.
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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I won't tag my name because I may change in the future. That's the nature of this game. Unlike WoW, where you have guild names, you team name does not transfer upon a change of clan.
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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On September 14 2011 04:07 Battleaxe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 03:49 MichaelJLowell wrote:On September 14 2011 03:10 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:54 MichaelJLowell wrote:On September 14 2011 02:50 unit wrote:On September 14 2011 02:49 Ownos wrote:On September 13 2011 21:22 Scrimpton wrote:
Paying money to change a couple of plain text characters?
jesus christ.. why do people let this become the norm.. now we're BEGGING to be ripped off? should be free of charge for fucks sake lol.
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 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? 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.
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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A changeable clan tag would be ideal. Leave it independent of your name/code. I shouldn't have to buy a new account if I want to affiliate myself with some group or another. This would obviously be included in name changes if allowed since you could just tack it on to the front of your name. But I'm willing to concede to Blizzard if they want us having a consistent identity, if they will throw us the bone of being able to easily identify a group/clan/team.
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All I want is clan tag support like every other game has had for a very long time. Please.
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The reason blizzard isn't implementing these new features is pretty simple. In order to not destroy the SC2 metagame they can't release much actual content in the two expansions, so instead they hold back on out of game features that they will add to the expansions to encourage people to buy them.
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On September 14 2011 02:18 Gingerninja wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2011 02:11 MattyClutch wrote:On September 13 2011 22:08 Sina92 wrote:Battle.Net 1 compared to Battle.Net 2 + Show Spoiler +http://i.imgur.com/jEzkT.png It is worth noting that several things on that list were not in B.net when it launched. I imagine they will add stuff as they go just like with SC1. 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.
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I'm not really sure where I stand on the idea of a paid name change, but I definitely support the ability to be able to change your name or add clan tags in general. Personally I think it should be an option for everyone regardless of their stats or standing within the actual game. I mean really, it's just a name change. Stuff like score keeping and stats and stuff can easily be applied to the actual account, and not the specific name.
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.
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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!!!!
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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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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.
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If they added a clan tag feature that lets you put on a tag for free, I would be seriously interested in that. As for the name change, I don't know really. It would be cool, but if there was a separate clan tag system, I don't think it would be necessary for me.
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This is so freaking stupid on Blizzards behalf words fail me. It never occured to them that the reason why people have not used there one free name is because they only have one free name change?
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.
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Agreed, it should be free. We have to pay for name change? Face palm.
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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.
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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....
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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."
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I'm saving my name change in case I get picked up by OGS or liquid.
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On September 14 2011 04:56 Roblin wrote:Show nested quote +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."
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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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.
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Wanting a clan support in the game, and wanting to change your name are two different things. For that reason I think the poll is badly constructed. If I vote "yes" it's gonna look like I want name change system in the game.
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The thing is, if they add clan tag support now, we'll have names like "EG.Liquid'Huk". lol
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On September 14 2011 04:56 Roblin wrote:Show nested quote +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."
"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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i really really want clans.... get some clan wars going!
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On September 14 2011 05:01 Excalibur_Z wrote:Show nested quote +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.
They could implement things such as previous aliases like Steam did so you can see what their name used to be.
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The only reason I didn't change my name was because I only had one name change available, and saved it incase I joined a clan in the future, which did eventually happen.
There is absolutely no reason why Blizzard should not have name change and clan tags implemented. Many if not all competitive games include these features, and Battle.net 1.0 was so amazing back then because it was one of the first that could do those things.
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It takes them nothing to add this feature. The delay could be Blizzard considering whether or not the community is gullible enough to actually pay for name changes like WoW players.
Their laughably transparent "plan" is to hold off so it seems like the players are being granted features as time goes on when really this should have been a part of Battle.net from the start.
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Let's be honest. Blizzard released the 1 free name change shortly after the games release... keyword here is shortly. It is well within their capability to implement a paid/unpaid name change service. Why they havnt done it yet is anybodys guess.
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Implementation of clan/name change would be nice, albeit I would most probably not use it much myself. That is, in case I never get accepted into a clan, because I do not think that I want to change my name.
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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.
Im not entirely sure what blizzard expected to happen when they said it would be soon - I just thought I'd wait. What happened to the days when you could /name?
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if this change were to be implemented. Would this mean I could have an infinite amount of smurf accounts on only one game key?
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On September 14 2011 05:47 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
if this change were to be implemented. Would this mean I could have an infinite amount of smurf accounts on only one game key?
one name at a time.
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i want clan tags, clan lists, and clan ladder like in wc3!
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On September 14 2011 05:47 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
if this change were to be implemented. Would this mean I could have an infinite amount of smurf accounts on only one game key?
No, because you're changing a single name not creating new profiles. And everything account based like stats and campaign completion, etc, would be attached to the account itself and not the actual name. If Blizzard is smart, anyway.
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On September 14 2011 05:01 Excalibur_Z wrote:Show nested quote +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.
Yes their is a minor annoyance in not being able to tell a player on your friends list who has changed their name. But is that annoyance greater than the annoyance someone who wants to change their name feels not being able to change it?
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Clan support would be great TT
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i prefer name changing support rather than clan support
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Id be happy with a name change system, When the game was first released they didn't have a confirmation screen when you entered your name so my free name change was used to just spell my name right
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On September 16 2011 10:52 JiYan wrote:
i prefer name changing support rather than clan support
What about both? Name-change you can pay for and infinite clan changes? Wouldn't even need a tag as part of your name. GunZ had what seemed to be good clan support to me, when you joined a new team it would list your clan next to your name (in-game), so your name wouldn't change, but your clan would.
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I seriously don't understand why they don't have this ability in place. Like every major game allows it in some form. They can charge a certain amount of money and make it well worth their time. Common Blizzard, get with it! It's just a relatively small but VERY important detail!
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Why do we have to ask Blizzard if we can pay them more money? X.X
I hope we get name change service!
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On September 16 2011 13:47 Shebuha wrote:
Why do we have to ask Blizzard if we can pay them more money? X.X
I hope we get name change service!
me too i had to buy a new account couldnt stand my old tag anymore T_T
I waited a year thinking it would happen, not relying on blizz anymore
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its so lame that blizzard would tell us that name change will come, never brings it, and then claims that there never was a demand for it. Its like you mom walking up to you and saying "im makin pancakes for you!" and you reply "sweet..i do enjoy a pancake covered in scrumptious maple syrup" and then 2 hours later u walk up and ask her "where are those pancakes? i was looking forward to eating them!" and she replys "welll...u never walked into the kitchen and TOLD me that u wanted pancakes so i never made them".....cmon blizzard.....make the damn pancakes
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Finially. I'm not a programmer or anything but i dont see why it would take this long for a relatively simple feature like this to be released.
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On September 16 2011 14:10 Arathore wrote:
I'm not a programmer ...... relatively simple feature like this to be released.
really?
anyways
I dont see why blizzard didnt design bnet 2.0 to include this with a fee, it seems like an obvious money grab to me
I'd never change my name though, i don't see the point for anyone really unless you're a progamer that likes to switch clans a lot.
would be nice to have clan support ala bf2 though :\
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I'd be very surprised if they put in clan support after the paid name change.
Why do themselves out of even more money? I'd bet a really significant fraction of paid name changes would come from people switching clans.
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On September 16 2011 14:18 askTeivospy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 14:10 Arathore wrote:
I'm not a programmer ...... relatively simple feature like this to be released. really? anyways I dont see why blizzard didnt design bnet 2.0 to include this with a fee, it seems like an obvious money grab to me I'd never change my name though, i don't see the point for anyone really unless you're a progamer that likes to switch clans a lot. would be nice to have clan support ala bf2 though :\
they did ^^ they just wanted to make us want it so we dident complain about the money part ^^
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I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net.
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See, the thing is that I'm afraid to use up my 1 name change, because then I'm locked in.
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On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net.
Think about what you said... why should players have to buy a new copy of the game to represent their team when this feature was included in Warcraft III almost ten years ago?
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i don't see why it wasn't included from the get go.
And personally, i feel like it's a little shortsighted to be like, "well, no one used their one free name change, therefore no one must want a name change???"
considering i'm sure they've been asked a decent amount (although based on their statement, it's not like they've received a staggering amount of requests
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Blizzard been talking to Riot Games? last year riot said they would introduce a new 5v5 map and they said last year it will come "soon" it's been a year, still no map. (riot are the people who made League of Legends)
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On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net.
really? Really? think about what you just said buy a new game (60$) just for a new name? Thats stupid lol.
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On September 13 2011 08:14 nitdkim wrote:
nobody is using their name changer because they know they can only change it once -.-
Exactly. I won't use it until I know it can be replaced tt.
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On September 16 2011 14:24 Belisarius wrote:
I'd be very surprised if they put in clan support after the paid name change.
Why do themselves out of even more money? I'd bet a really significant fraction of paid name changes would come from people switching clans.
That's a pretty good point. They might implement the name change first, make some money off it then use clan support as a HotS feature.
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On September 16 2011 15:46 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net. really? Really? think about what you just said buy a new game (60$) just for a new name? Thats stupid lol.
I actually agree with the fact that it will promote more scamming and noob behaviour because the perpetrators will know they can just change their ID and the majority of people would not know. I actually didn't think about this point until I saw his post, and I sort of agree with him in that respect. Name changes are not ALL good,
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On September 16 2011 14:26 MangoTango wrote:
See, the thing is that I'm afraid to use up my 1 name change, because then I'm locked in.
Funny thing is even then even with the 1 name change your locked in anyways cuz you're afraid to waste it!
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Sadly in todays world everything is about money. Gone are the old days when you could change your characters name at will......
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On September 16 2011 14:24 Belisarius wrote:
I'd be very surprised if they put in clan support after the paid name change.
Why do themselves out of even more money? I'd bet a really significant fraction of paid name changes would come from people switching clans.
True, this would also put a stop to clan hoppers
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This thread has a very misleading title. There is no new info, just a blue post saying a lot of people havent used their free name change, so what?
Please change the title, when there's actually NEW info, i want to know, but its not the case.
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blizzard have really fucked up with this imo.
it cannot be hard to impliment can it?
and all its gonna do is make them a bit more money and please the people that want a name change
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On September 16 2011 15:57 Malstriks wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 15:46 blade55555 wrote:On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net. really? Really? think about what you just said buy a new game (60$) just for a new name? Thats stupid lol. I actually agree with the fact that it will promote more scamming and noob behaviour because the perpetrators will know they can just change their ID and the majority of people would not know. I actually didn't think about this point until I saw his post, and I sort of agree with him in that respect. Name changes are not ALL good,
You also have to realize that some (semi-)pros don't want to drop out of GM league, considering it's basically impossible to get in with a new account.
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I dont care about name change, i want clan support? What about that? I dont want to pay real money for a clan tag.
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On September 16 2011 15:12 CuSToM wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net. Think about what you said... why should players have to buy a new copy of the game to represent their team when this feature was included in Warcraft III almost ten years ago?
This.
The scariest part is that nowadays it seems to more and more people perfectly normal to be restricted to one region, not be able to play with others, not have a clan management system, have to PAY for a frakking name change, etc...
War3's Battle Net was so much better, I still don't understand what is happening in the Bnet team at blizzard HQ. It must be some kind of a joke.
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Yeah I agree, there should be a Clan tag system just some of the games on xbox/live.
Also, didn't the makers of xbox live help with the making of bnet 0.2?
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On September 18 2011 03:30 MaverickSC wrote:
Yeah I agree, there should be a Clan tag system just some of the games on xbox/live.
Also, didn't the makers of xbox live help with the making of bnet 0.2?
Sadly, yes.
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PLS!!! i wanna be fuggernaught 2.0
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Update from the esports manager who contacted Blizzard again and received this response in his ticket.
In the future we plan to offer additional name changes for StarCraft II characters. I am unable to provide any additional information at this time, aside from underscoring that we're enthusiastic about this too!
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3123318915?page=66#1310
We have to see if we can get confirmation of this from another source.
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I think Blizz should offer one free name change a season and additional name changes for 6.99$. That way,u can change your name every once in a while without paying, but if you want to shcange your name every other day, u have to pay for it.
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I wonder if this has to do with any legal or accounting costs they would accrue, along with the obvious development time.
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I hope this will happen. I had a bad name and immediately changed it to a worse one. I am ridiculed almost every day on ladder
Or they could give a free one again. Last time was almost a year ago I think.
Edit: I could of course buy a new copy of the game if I wanted but I really wanna keep my profile with 2000 wins.
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Has anyone thought that, perhaps, they're not implementing the name change and clan support because Blizzard wants it to be another selling point for HOTS?
That's what I'd do if I was them.
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It will be bought regardless
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I think they should allow a reset in the name change feature during the start of each season. For example 1 name change per season, but it doesn't stack up if you do not use it. This would allow a name change every 2 months and will also prevent trolls from changing their names too much. I and i'm guessing most of the community do not like the idea of a paid name change.. these kinds of things should be free.
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edit: I totally agree to the post above me.
This is typical Blizzardish work style.
Not a single person is needed to implement anything, if they would just allow a name change every ... (2-4 month). Blizzard is just not about solving problems in an easy way... To figuere out which is the best way to make more money is what really takes time 8[
Thx for this game, Blizz. But in all situations around this, especially the battle.net, you are still acting stupidly awkward.
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Posting this as it appears it hasn't been shared in this thread yet.
Blizz has responded to the thread mentioned in OP, and apparently it was misinformation.
Blizzard's Response
From the blue post:
Recently, some inaccurate information was shared with the community in regard to the future of a paid name change service, so we wanted to take some time to clarify our current stance on the implementation of this feature. Our original plans to implement a paid name change service have not changed, and it is indeed something that we would like to make available as soon as possible. As with any feature, however, it remains a matter of scheduling it among our other development projects before it can be introduced. We’re not able to give a specific timeframe yet, but we are targeting work to begin late this year or early next year. We’ll share release plans once we’re further along in the process.
As always, your ongoing constructive feedback is appreciated.
While I am one of those who has not used the free name change (nor do I plan to anytime soon, I already picked a name i liked), I can't believe they would even try to use that as an excuse as why not to implement it. Clearly a majority of SC2 players are casual and have no real need to change their name frequently, but pro's do need it for team changes and the like. Glad to see that most of this was misinformation, but it's still ridiculous this wasn't in place from the get-go as it was painfully clear people would want/need it.
On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net.
Your not, most people don't really care for themselves, but they are smart enough to realize this affects plenty of pro's and semi-pro's a fair bit. I cant believe you don't see a problem with having to buy a new version of the game for a simple name change, especially (as others have mentioned) since this feature was in place for other Blizz games.
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Whats the disadvantage of a clan/tag system anyway.
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On September 29 2011 23:27 Tictock wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2011 14:25 MetalSlug wrote:
I feel like the only person who doesnt give a shit about name changes... I mean common... if you are a professionel and your team wants you to wear a clan tag, whats holding them from buying you a new game ?
Name changes for not professionel players will only promote more scamming and noob behavior on battle.net. Your not, most people don't really care for themselves, but they are smart enough to realize this affects plenty of pro's and semi-pro's a fair bit. I cant believe you don't see a problem with having to buy a new version of the game for a simple name change, especially (as others have mentioned) since this feature was in place for other Blizz games.
haha! nice one! it really is painful how dumb people are, when it comes to issues they aren't directly affected by. ^^
Also this attitude seem to be the most common between blizzard employees. Maybe he should work for them.
edit: sry, i'm a bit mad, when i read shit like "who cares, you all are just QQing..."
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i would like a other name change, or at least a clan tag change
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Poor GosiTerran has had to pay over 500$ for new accounts :p (joke, though it may be accurate.)
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dont see whats so diffcult about this. i mean the code is already in place since there IS one available name change for each account. rather than giving what is important and what is wanted by the community, they rather put their efforts into useless things like messing up APM and canceling notifications as mentioned in the latest state of the game.
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i most likely wont be changing my name at any point, but i wouldn't mind clan tags =D
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The whole name change thing I can see as not important but I think clan tags are a huge deal.
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I think the reason they are stalling name changes is that they want some new content to release with the upcoming expansions. If they made vanilla SC2 awesome, then ppl couldn't get excited for new content coming from the expansions.
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there should be unlimited name changes for something cheap like $1 but we should be able to make new accounts for free just like the good old days for smurphing and itll let pros hide their strats when running customs etc especially w the new build order thing.
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On September 30 2011 00:19 Bluerain wrote:
there should be unlimited name changes for something cheap like $1 but we should be able to make new accounts for free just like the good old days for smurphing and itll let pros hide their strats when running customs etc especially w the new build order thing.
By making a bunch of smurf accounts, it would totally destroy the ladder system, imagine if HuK were to make 10 smurfs accounts all in grand master, or high master etc.
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On September 30 2011 00:19 Bluerain wrote:
there should be unlimited name changes for something cheap like $1 but we should be able to make new accounts for free just like the good old days for smurphing and itll let pros hide their strats when running customs etc especially w the new build order thing.
most if not all pros already have several accounts, $1 is way to cheap for blizzard the cash cow wow even charged like $15 even though I think it has gone down.
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blizzard give us clan support!
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please don't bump this thread if there is no new info I get excited for nothing everyone knows about the blue post actually saying nothing.
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having to pay to change your alias in a video game has always been the dumbest decision
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They should deliver name changes with HoTS
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I would just like it to be known that I was "no" 1337 for whether I've used my paid name change. That is all.
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Name change means nothing if our record / mmr doesn't change with it. On the other hand, for people in clans, clan tag support / multiple name change would be essential. Can't believe blizzard still has no clan support for this game when its e-sports driven. Everytime someone changes clan they have to make buy a new account to sport the clan tag? Ridiculous. If blizzard doesn't want to implement features that will make people play more (like having different mmr for each race so players can switch race pain-free or allowing an overall mmr reset) then they need to at least support free name-change and clan tags...
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I mean the Name change is sth. totally different from the Clantag system. I'd never think about changing my nick, because there is no real reason, but to confuse your online friends or to artificially create a "Clantag". Name change isnt really important to me.
The Clantag system should be free every like 3 months and paid for an earlier change, this would prevent an abuse of the Clantag, but gives u kind of a freedom if you change your clan.
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Name change is not the most desired now.. But clan tags are It is funny when people play on accs that have like Virus or something else in their names.
For example VirusElfi when he's in Acer and VirusNaama when he's in Fightline :|
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vote for free name change!
what abuse can come from this??? so what if someone changes there name after every game? How does this affect anyone else? It might make things confusing on the ladder.. but who cares?
I never understood how "preventing abuse" was an acceptable excuse on making people pay to change there name in wow.
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On September 30 2011 00:52 Kroml. wrote:please don't bump this thread if there is no new info I get excited for nothing everyone knows about the blue post actually saying nothing.
Sorry wasn't new info to you, but didn't seem to be any mention of it in the thread yet so I decided to add it. The blue post may not say much beyond the usual "we're working on it" but it does give a pretty different message than what the OP is saying.
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On September 30 2011 02:57 Tictock wrote:Show nested quote +On September 30 2011 00:52 Kroml. wrote:please don't bump this thread if there is no new info I get excited for nothing everyone knows about the blue post actually saying nothing. Sorry wasn't new info to you, but didn't seem to be any mention of it in the thread yet so I decided to add it. The blue post may not say much beyond the usual "we're working on it" but it does give a pretty different message than what the OP is saying.
Yeah post helped me thanks for the update
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When you registered an account you stated your character name (nick) and your personal name. I don't want to change my character name but my personal name. Because my personal name is fake but now I want the world to know my real name.
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On October 01 2011 20:57 archonOOid wrote:
When you registered an account you stated your character name (nick) and your personal name. I don't want to change my character name but my personal name. Because my personal name is fake but now I want the world to know my real name.
Open a ticket on battle.net they will almost always change this as long as you can prove you are the original purchaser of the account....
i.e. if your fake name is obviously fake or if you can provide credit card information for the card attached to the account... This is not something that you have to pay for *yet* :-p~ gl man
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Blizzard goes by priorities. Nobody really wants these Bnet features. All the community is asking for is more destructible rocks, smaller maps and most importantly new apm measures.
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Good bump.
Serioulsy, with those new economics models, there are so many functionalities that should be packed in the game as a service, and yet, we have just the minimum-required. I understand that every little service is now considered as an option, and most of the time, a costing one.
But seriously, WC3 had clan tag and matchmaking, sc1 had better network platform with large chat room, infinite nick change and it's not hard to implement. I feel like we're fooled with the economic approach of blizzard, and many others are taking.
A good platform should have mandatory services packed in it like chat, clan tag, matchmaking, group. If you want a "waouuuh" skin for your marine, it's ok to pay, but not to have some fundametal functionalities like that.
imo it's like , ok I want to buy a car, i go to my carseller and see this beautiful car parked just right here, and it costs 10k. I buy it but oh well, no brakes, no steering-wheel, you know ... it's an option ! And you have to put 3k more on the table to get these usual things on your brand new car. It's just weird in my books.
God, even the Counter Strike Network was better than the Call of Duty one. What the fuck is that...
Ok I stop ranting but i really hope this problem will be one day seriously considered by the video game industry.
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We want name changes blizzard. Make it happen please
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IMO clan tags are even more important than a paid name change, but I'd like to see both I suppose. I'm surprised clan tags weren't there at launch, but would love to see it next patch!
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Well they are too busy changing the APM system, so this has to wait a bit more
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this is blizzard plan.
they want us to scream and flame about this
because than they just put it out and everybody is happy and they get no hate.
just imagine how much hate blizz would have get if this would be in the game since release.
The feature is in
you can change your name and there is no logistic behind this
just click and done
the restriction to change it one time is just a fake i was able to change my name twice.
Something like
be able to change your name once every 1/2/3 Months would make more sense when there is another reason beside money.
we are just sheep's :D
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Everytime someone bumps this I think there's new info D:
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On October 02 2011 01:16 Cuiu wrote:
this is blizzard plan.
they want us to scream and flame about this
because than they just put it out and everybody is happy and they get no hate.
just imagine how much hate blizz would have get if this would be in the game since release.
The feature is in
you can change your name and there is no logistic behind this
just click and done
the restriction to change it one time is just a fake i was able to change my name twice.
Something like
be able to change your name once every 1/2/3 Months would make more sense when there is another reason beside money.
we are just sheep's :D
The idea is somewhat right, however they labeled it as "coming soon". This was just false, they needed to classify that it would only come if people wanted it.
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On October 02 2011 03:06 ChroMaTe_ wrote:
Everytime someone bumps this I think there's new info D:
Same T_T
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On October 02 2011 03:06 ChroMaTe_ wrote:
Everytime someone bumps this I think there's new info D:
This ^^
I think it isn't very good of them to label something as "Coming Soon" then later say "lol jk no one wants it"
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On October 03 2011 09:56 monitor wrote:Show nested quote +On October 02 2011 01:16 Cuiu wrote:
this is blizzard plan.
they want us to scream and flame about this
because than they just put it out and everybody is happy and they get no hate.
just imagine how much hate blizz would have get if this would be in the game since release.
The feature is in
you can change your name and there is no logistic behind this
just click and done
the restriction to change it one time is just a fake i was able to change my name twice.
Something like
be able to change your name once every 1/2/3 Months would make more sense when there is another reason beside money.
we are just sheep's :D The idea is somewhat right, however they labeled it as "coming soon". This was just false, they needed to classify that it would only come if people wanted it.
thats what i said they want people to want it.
thats nothing new about blizz but still sad.
and there is nothing with coming soon the feature is alrdy in
they just have to make one click.
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On October 02 2011 01:16 Cuiu wrote:
this is blizzard plan.
they want us to scream and flame about this
because than they just put it out and everybody is happy and they get no hate.
just imagine how much hate blizz would have get if this would be in the game since release.
The feature is in
you can change your name and there is no logistic behind this
just click and done
the restriction to change it one time is just a fake i was able to change my name twice.
Something like
be able to change your name once every 1/2/3 Months would make more sense when there is another reason beside money.
we are just sheep's :D
Why did that just make so much sense?
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ugh i was hoping for a new update. still want this :[
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Stop bumping this and getting me excited!
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You could make a new ID in BW, a game over 10 years old. Think about that.
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No clan support this late after release is pretty bad =/
Even BW had primitive clan support in the form of channel mods.
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On September 13 2011 08:06 Onox wrote:
I assume many have not used their free name change just for the sake of it being their only one.
bears repeating.
We should have an email addy we can all personally email!
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I never write stuff on TL, but my clan has has change their clan tag (Sc -> SCG) and now all the newcomers have they new tag...
I don't feel part of the clan I've been apart of for a year now! (I already used my name change when I joined the clan)
They should add the clan tag system or a free name change each year for your registered account.
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This is ridiculous. Such a basic feature that is being overlooked. At least make a changeable clan tag so we don't have to change our entire account name.
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^ why did u guys have to bump this month old thread, i was hoping for actual news about the case. let me down :/
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It's pretty fucking sad that we have to beg blizzard to PAY for a name change. sigh bnet 1.0, how i miss you so...
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STOP REVIVING OLD THREADS!
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i called them about this too and they said the developers are working on it... WTF?!
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I've even had friends who ask other friends to "report my name as inappropriate so i can get a name change!"
Battle net for sc2 Always disappointing.. =[
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While I have no idea for sure what the sc2 devs are working on at the moment, considering employee's code to secrecy, I would not be surprised if the sc2/bnet devs are working on something that tech support might not even know about. If we get nothing by the time Heart of the Swarm is released, then id say it's time to panic.
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FINA... oh -_- I really don't see any issue with this, or even with a number of characters per account. It's all a bunch of data, a small one at that. So it seems to be all about the $$ in this particular case..
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On November 10 2011 01:33 RastaMonsta wrote:
^ why did u guys have to bump this month old thread, i was hoping for actual news about the case. let me down :/
Same here x.x
"New thread? Nah probably old thread. Click it? Nah why waste my time. ::clicks it:: Sigh."
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On November 10 2011 04:09 vicml21 wrote:
While I have no idea for sure what the sc2 devs are working on at the moment, considering employee's code to secrecy, I would not be surprised if the sc2/bnet devs are working on something that tech support might not even know about. If we get nothing by the time Heart of the Swarm is released, then id say it's time to panic.
probably working on next exp, what ever makes them money you see.
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