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Angry.Zerg
Mexico305 Posts
But with f2p model, I would be willing to spend some bucks on customisation of my units (badass roach skin). Aslo would be awesome to see Teams (like EG) using banners or uniforms on their units. Some people pay to have t-shirts of soccer teams u know? not a surprise that many people would personalise their units as those from proTeams. | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
On September 25 2012 01:22 KillingVector wrote: You are right. People who like to constantly play dramatically uneven matches would really like this change. I doubt people are going to make an account to play dramatically uneven matches. You still need to lose or you will be promoted. So you could play 15 or so games on each account just to troll players? I doubt most people would have the energy to do this. As for the issue of hackers being brought up by people: Blizzard already does very little about it and the bans are temp bans anyway for the most part so nothing would change there. Unless you are at least OK at the game, the hack won't necessarily help you. At best you will see more diamond players get promoted to masters using hackers than you would see a deterioration of general gameplay at the lower levels of play. | ||
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Sixer
United States278 Posts
On September 25 2012 01:26 Thrasymachus725 wrote: Oh god, again with the LAN... I thought we were done with this... I guess we will never be done with this... This is a completely different concern than just complaining that there's no LAN. F2P would eliminate almost every concern they had when deciding to remove LAN...and you wouldn't have professional players dropping at major tournaments. All that being said, it's really sad that people are so against the idea of paying for a game now that this is what the market is coming to. | ||
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Sickafant
Canada19 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
On September 25 2012 01:47 Sixer wrote: This is a completely different concern than just complaining that there's no LAN. F2P would eliminate almost every concern they had when deciding to remove LAN...and you wouldn't have professional players dropping at major tournaments. All that being said, it's really sad that people are so against the idea of paying for a game now that this is what the market is coming to. I'm not against it, but when you think of real sports the most popular and widely played sports are those that need the least money to be involved in. Soccer you need a ball. Played everywhere by everyone. Hockey, or American Football: lots of gear, and special space to play it. With SC2, most computers should be able to run it reasonably well nowadays. So most people have the tools. And then when the option is play SC2 and buy the game and all the expansions, or play LoL for free the choice is made for some people. The thing with LoL is you can spend whatever free cash you have whenever you want. With SC2 you need to have a minimum of X dollars and invest them. So for some markets or groups the initial investment is a problem whereas the odd microtransaction isn't. | ||
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ssxsilver
United States4409 Posts
On September 25 2012 01:22 KillingVector wrote: You are right. People who like to constantly play dramatically uneven matches would really like this change. They can go something similar to D2 route and have two separate ladders. Rather than be segregated by Open (local account storage) and Closed (Blizz servers), it would obviously be free SC2 and paid. This wouldn't change your ladder experience at all. | ||
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Gorillamask
Denmark48 Posts
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KillingVector
United States96 Posts
On September 25 2012 01:47 ZeromuS wrote: I doubt people are going to make an account to play dramatically uneven matches. You still need to lose or you will be promoted. So you could play 15 or so games on each account just to troll players? I doubt most people would have the energy to do this. Or they would just do as smurfs do now. You occasionally lose a game on purpose. With a F2P system, there would be more accounts and more reports. Blizzard's current track record at handling this type of stuff would indicate that you could do it for a while before you need to make another account. On September 25 2012 01:55 ssxsilver wrote: They can go something similar to D2 route and have two separate ladders. Rather than be segregated by Open (local account storage) and Closed (Blizz servers), it would obviously be free SC2 and paid. This wouldn't change your ladder experience at all. I agree that this would be the best plan if they decide to go for a F2P model, but I suspect that the pay ladder would be much smaller than it is now. | ||
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LeSioN
United States325 Posts
Aside from that it seems quite simple, monitize custom maps. Paid name changes. Paid icons. Paid army banners. paid single player. Maybe paid access to indepth stats, maybe like a sc2gears report. Perhaps buy additional bonus pool, though i dont understnd how rankings work well enough to know if that could cause to dramatic of an inflaation or something. | ||
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Fetchystick
United States43 Posts
Free to play: -can play multiplayer and get placed in leagues -has F2P tag in front of name -can play any melee map (new ones added onto the ladder can be played) -CANNOT play single player campaign, but can still do versus AI -CANNOT do any custom games, period. Only melee. (might have to ad unit preloader to default maps) -CANNOT make custom games or maps Premium: everyone with a starcraft 2 account already has this. no changes. I'm sure blizzard will get plenty of money from people wanting to play the campaign, screw around in a custom game, or try their hand at mapmaking. Not that they don't get plenty of money already from WoW. Please, however. NO PAY TO WIN, NO MONTHLY FEES. I will hunt down and kill anyone who does that to starcraft 2 | ||
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Hryul
Austria2609 Posts
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Lorch
Germany3684 Posts
But f2p opens up the game to a wider player base, together with arcade this may bring in a lot of casuals, which is always a good thing so yeah sure why not, as long as it doesn't turn into pay to win... Btw I'm fairly sure AoE online is f2p and there is some f2p c&c or it's coming out, but since I don't care about either of those franchisees I'm not sure. | ||
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JonB
Sweden325 Posts
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On September 25 2012 03:01 Fetchystick wrote: Okay, here's what needs to happen IMO: Free to play: -can play multiplayer and get placed in leagues -has F2P tag in front of name -can play any melee map (new ones added onto the ladder can be played) -CANNOT play single player campaign, but can still do versus AI -CANNOT do any custom games, period. Only melee. (might have to ad unit preloader to default maps) -CANNOT make custom games or maps Premium: everyone with a starcraft 2 account already has this. no changes. I'm sure blizzard will get plenty of money from people wanting to play the campaign, screw around in a custom game, or try their hand at mapmaking. Not that they don't get plenty of money already from WoW. Please, however. NO PAY TO WIN, NO MONTHLY FEES. I will hunt down and kill anyone who does that to starcraft 2 Why would you want the F2P tag in front of name? What practical purpose would that serve, and why would players benefit from having that kind of information in the game? Other stuff is perfectly fine though. | ||
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Sandermatt
Switzerland1365 Posts
Free to play: Multiplayer No GM possible (so cheaters cannot get in so easily) By buying the game you get: Campaign Option to only play vs other paying players (helps against cheaters) Advantage in queing for game Some better looking units like collectors edition thor Cool avatars Choose your players color during laddering (with alternative for equal color for opponent) Clan Tag Posibility also restricted to game owners: Ultra graphics Stats sheet at the end of the game No advertisment Maybe also cheaper passes for major tournaments. This tournaments all need to be sanctioned by Blizzard, so maybe Blizzard could make such a deal with them. Game clock Scan range indicator Worker number counter on base and gas | ||
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LeSioN
United States325 Posts
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XythOs
Germany520 Posts
It will basicly give you a new ladder slot with your MMR/points reset to Zero. This way, you could have like 3 slots for each race without having to make new accounts and you can keep your friend list/achievements. Maybe add a name change transaction/private option for each slot.  | ||
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Phoobie
Canada120 Posts
F2P multyplayer ladder, zero restrictions -Paid name changes -paid additional "Smurf" accounts -paid unit potraits and decals -custom decals and portraits (design your own for a small fee) -custom colors: customize your laddering color, add sparkle, shine and glow effects (subtle though) -clan logo's and overlays Blizzard can host prize tournaments with small entrance fees with monetary rewards to the winner, bonus points for X/Y/Z and goodies for participants! Player streaming within the battle.net client, players can follow certain players (blizzard gets a small portion) Mapmakers can make trial and full versions of their maps, trials version are free for people to try, full versions can be bought for a reasonable price .99c each? and blizz takes a small cut for hosting the games. For a fee SC2 teams can have their own dedciated team pages hosted in the battle.net service where the teams can get more exposure, talk to the community and host their own events, users won't have to minimize SC2 and open a web browser. Major tournaments could also benefit from their own dedicated pages/stream access within battle.net list goes on  as for single player, I think breaking it up would be really beneficial for players who prefer to spend a lil here and there with spare change as opposed to buying everything in one go ex: players can spend say $1.79 a mission, $8.25 per "Act" (Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, Act 4 Final Act) or $40 for the 30 mission bundle | ||
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schimmetje
Netherlands1104 Posts
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Pisko.
United States214 Posts
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