More hackers, more assholes, more cheaters, more spammers. Advertisements, having to pay for bazillions of little things, having the full game cost thousands of dollars instead of ~120. Maybe. At least that's why I'd stop playing if it happened.

xuanzue

Colombia1747 Posts

September 23 2012 21:55 GMT

#242

On September 23 2012 20:47 Andr3 wrote:

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Only terran, only some maps...no matchmaking I think?

they can bind 2 Starter Edition accounts to 1 fullversion and give em more features. do remember anyone when you needed 2 licenses to play 3v3 in RTS?

Greenei

Germany1754 Posts

September 23 2012 21:56 GMT

#243

plz no. first i pay much money to get the game and then you'll destroy it with hackers and idiots? no thanks.

TC_Beynbio

Norway81 Posts

September 23 2012 21:59 GMT

#244

Sc2 as F2P? idk paying for expansions while the original one is free so more people can play the game? hmmm

mrRoflpwn

United States2618 Posts

September 23 2012 22:00 GMT

#245

On September 23 2012 12:45 Niriw wrote:
-Buy Clan tags
-Buy Name Changes
-Buy unlimited access to arcade and unlimited ladder games (maybe limited to 3-5 games a day of both arcade and ladder)
-Priority on the match queu (VIP [aka players who pay] have a 1/3 of the waiting time in queu for a match)
-All options and customizations unlocked (Options menu: graphics, hotkeys, sound, etc)

And I could go on forever

Edit: just for typos

Exactly, why can't teh blizzard employees think of stuff like this!- I mean we give them plenty of FREE ideas!!

FeUerFlieGe

United States1193 Posts

September 23 2012 22:00 GMT

#246

I despise the idea of different unit skins.... I absolutely despise it and will not stand for it. Also, I despise portraits you have to buy. It suddenly makes the portrait not as cool as it could have been if it was earned through the game (although I really don't care weather or not blizzard adds this, I just won't buy any).

Ettick

United States2434 Posts

September 23 2012 22:00 GMT

#247

I mean I guess this could work if they made it so people who didn't pay wouldn't be able to play campaign and you could buy aesthetic stuff, but it's a stretch really

SHOOG

United States1639 Posts

September 23 2012 22:01 GMT

#248

I don't really want to see them go down the F2P path.
But if they did, I would like to see a lot of the custom banners and logos such as used in DOTA.
I however, don't want them to have a limited F2P version that makes you pay for certain parts of the game(different modes, unlimited ladder,ect as I saw someone earlier post).

ZweiGaming

Canada348 Posts

September 23 2012 22:02 GMT

#249

If hackers could remake illimited amount of accounts without having to pay for them, I believe we'd see the number of those grow exponentially. F2P is a bad idea imo...

5ukkub

Poland507 Posts

September 23 2012 22:04 GMT

#250

f2p Multiplayer is the way to go.
Singleplayer + "trendy" skins, sounds, characters or whatever are things that would be paid for and Blizzard would earn a lot of money this way.
Best thing is - free multiplayer means shit tons of people playing (like in LoL), equals more viewers, equals more sponsors equals stronger SC2!

darkscream

Canada2310 Posts

September 23 2012 22:08 GMT

#251

They should:

F2P multiplayer (f2p can't use chat/friends list maybe)

paid name changes

portraits/decals/ladder colours (let me pay $2 to play purple or even a pattern)

special models (collectors edition thor, etc, nothing too distracting)

Let community mappers sell their maps, take a cut, just like d3's auction house
-> Sell filler campaign missions between expansions. I'm willing to bet people would play $5 for a small map pack that leads the story from WoL to HotS, and without cinematics it can't be that expensive to make

Built in tournaments/private ladders, Allowing people to pay to use b-net as a tournament hosting service (and giving big LAN tourneys a better framework to organize so many people)

that's my wishlist, basically. Things i'd pay extra for. They did great with WoW - there are all sorts of small cosmetic things you can buy with real money.

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

September 23 2012 22:11 GMT

#252

mmm one positive point does the f2p system have though, ladder will become unplayable so we will end up with indie ladders. But I would really miss being matched against pros I know.

iDrone

United States176 Posts

September 23 2012 22:14 GMT

#253

Not sure why Sc2 Stats is so terrible. Only have W/L and meaningless "accomplishments".... Even HON has more stats than that.

Drezbie

Germany21 Posts

September 23 2012 22:18 GMT

#254

I hope they ll go free 2 play so more people can check the game out and maybe they ll like it.
I think maybe blizzard should give them like only 2on2 and 4on4 and arcade so if they like the game they can upgrade it for like 15 $ and get the full version.

dragonblade369

Canada464 Posts

September 23 2012 22:19 GMT

#255

Just wondering, are there a lot of hackers in LoL? I never played that game so I'm wondering how the LoL community responds to hackers

LeoA

Canada108 Posts

September 23 2012 22:21 GMT

#256

F2P would be insanely hard to monetize, but would probably be the best thing for e-sports.

Its probably not going to happen for a while though, if it happens at all.

SupLilSon

Malaysia4123 Posts

September 23 2012 22:21 GMT

#257

On September 24 2012 05:07 EnderSword wrote:

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Any reasoning behind that?

Like what would you be concerned about?

Because then the game development becomes, "how much new shiny bobbles can we design that people will buy?".

wcr.4fun

Belgium686 Posts

September 23 2012 22:22 GMT

#258

Sc2's bnet experience is pretty terrible in general. and I certainly hope it won't come to free to play. jesus the ultimate casualfest.

I mean brood war had better features 10 years ago than sc2 has now. Wc3, heroes of newerth have better features. Dota2 is infititely better when it comes to the online experience. In brood war you could watch replays with multiple people, warcraft 3 had life games via bnet (waaaaggh tv) and automated tournaments. In wc3 you could also edit your profile, describe it, add some funny text, advert your clan, etc which isn't possible in sc2.

Imagine if you could check out the recent news regarding tournaments via bnet and then start downloading replays via bnet of the tournament finals etc, watch them with multiple people or even watch the games life via bnet? Sc2 in an alternate reality has all of these stuff, I guess we're stuck with the shitty one or have to wait on it for another 10 years. Or imagine just being able to check out a players profile, check his recent matches, and start downloading replays of them. It was all possible in heroes of newerth. Now if a player wanted his replays private, he could check an option for it.

Jaaaaasper

United States10225 Posts

September 23 2012 22:24 GMT

#259

As long as it doesn't go pay to win.

Tao367

United Kingdom324 Posts

September 23 2012 22:27 GMT

#260

Make wings of liberty free to play, then charge for hots which is the new best thing that everyone will want.

Wings being free won't affect most of the people who are serious about the game as they'll all be buying hots and the people who play f2p wings will look at hots and think "wow I want me some of that".

Done.