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If they do f2p, I hope they do it like the new Phantasy Star (or at least, my understanding of how it will be when it comes out here) which is make it ftp, but be able to buy the full game for a price.
They could make just basic ladder free, and charge for campaigns and special blizzard made custom maps. Like, 30 bucks for a campaign, a dollar for a custom melee map or a flat fee for access to all the melee maps, something like the Left2Die maps charge a couple bucks. If they create enough achievements some people will want to buy these maps just to get the achievements.
Then use achievement points as a money system to spend towards things like skins or even more maps, so that you could theoretically unlock a bunch of stuff just by playing enough. This is what LoL does and the model works fantastically, and creates an atmosphere in which you just want to keep playing to unlock more stuff. But you can also spend real money to unlock something if you want to.
This would preserve balance, reap the benefits of LoL's f2p model, and also give people who just want to buy the full game that option.
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Free to play will be the future of esports games and i hope blizzard will implement it to starcraft as soon as possible.
The thing is it's harder to implement to rts game than to moba game and i hope blizzard will think of some brilliant way to make it work.
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Man, if they did this, so many of my buddies would play, so I hope Blizz does this.
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Why not kinda go like ICCup and make a paid Anti Hack Laucher for you to play ladder. Otherwise you can play custom games without it. Can make it 1.99 or .99 cents.
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On September 23 2012 12:43 Irave wrote:
Unlikely to happen anytime soon. If it was it would likely just be WoL, to get people into that, then to purchase Hots.
yeah prolly only after legacy of the void sales have dried up...
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As long as they keep it totally free for those that have paid.
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I can see this as F2P are rising to power quickly. Micro transactions for Maps, Skins, Portraits, Voice Pacts things like this could all be profitable in sc2
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I don't really see how people can be against a multiplayer F2P for just melee maps/ladder, do you really think blizzard would be stupid enough to ruin the franchise by making any changes the the In-game play turning it into a p2w game?
They have a few options for supporting the game such as selling the single player campaign and the custom maps/arcade stuff and haveing the ladder and tournament maps be F2P, selling portraits, name changes, custom decals, clan tags, clans, different colours other than the default red and blue, name changes, region transfer, aesthetic stuff like the CE thors, Stat resets, Single player DLC that expands on the story not focused on in the campaign, Map editor tools, voice changes, UI skins, background music, ability to enter/organise player made tournaments (something similar was in wc3 i think?) and many other things that I can't think of.
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On September 24 2012 10:13 Wedge wrote:
Man, if they did this, so many of my buddies would play, so I hope Blizz does this.
seconded, I'd freaking love this. Would be nice to have some pseudo-lan SC2 parties
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On September 24 2012 11:29 Iodem wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2012 10:13 Wedge wrote:
Man, if they did this, so many of my buddies would play, so I hope Blizz does this. seconded, I'd freaking love this. Would be nice to have some pseudo-lan SC2 parties
Or maybe they can implement LAN
:o
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I think that Blizzard sees the potential of e-sports and the immense growth in the sc2 industry in particular. My opinion is that they'll be targeting the e-sports industry to make money, whether it be through advertising, hosting tournaments, or more.
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On September 24 2012 11:33 jidolboy wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2012 11:29 Iodem wrote:On September 24 2012 10:13 Wedge wrote:
Man, if they did this, so many of my buddies would play, so I hope Blizz does this. seconded, I'd freaking love this. Would be nice to have some pseudo-lan SC2 parties Or maybe they can implement LAN :o
pshhhht like they could possibly have the technology to do that 
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Perhaps the previous versions should go F2P when the expansions come out, but that's about it. Honestly $40 isn't a big barrier. Like I said previously if they want to go the F2P route (I doubt it'll happen anytime soon) that's fine, but it has to be implemented right. So far very few F2P games have managed to actually do it right.
If they go the route of selling unit skins I hope there is an option for other people to disable seeing them on their screen.
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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
Paying for games, I for one am very happy you have nothing to do with the direction of SC.
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This would be terrible,free to play pay to win is awful and needs to die. How about we get paid name changes finally.
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On September 24 2012 12:23 GriMeR wrote:Show nested quote +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 Paying for games, I for one am very happy you have nothing to do with the direction of SC.
How did u get sc2 again?
"We're looking into it" is at least a much better answer then what they gave for LAN which was "Nah, never gonna happen"
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$100 to start off every game with lingspeed for a month on ladder.
Who's with me?
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Find it pretty funny they're looking in to microtransactions shortly after they shut down all our modding... Have a hunch some of our stuff from before 1.5 will end up on their store if this does happen.
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Just set up the auto tourny thing with money prizes and buy-ins. They already have a deal setup with pay pal + diablo 3, they could follow the same route. pay like 2.50 to join, you get some percent of the total and the rest goes back to blizz.
And find a way to make everyone do it, without giving free money to smurfs.
the more i think about it, the less realistic this would be rofl
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Other people here already suggested good limitations for f2p. Here it is:
1. Can only play 1v1
2. Can play only halfway through the campaign.
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