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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
Have red and blue as the ONLY colors. For ladder and for custom play. Then you can buy your favorite colors to play with... (I would easily pay for a Gray color, 10 bucks or so... for example)... also the same for some special portraits, and symbols on the buildings. For clans and things the portraits would be awesome. Maybe even a way to design your own. | ||
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Kovaz
Canada233 Posts
Campaign Clans Better stat-tracking Icons and skins for units Access to Public Tests and Betas In-game tournaments You could even restrict ranked matchmaking to paying players, depending if you need more incentives to pay. As for a more microtransaction-oriented model, you could have the obvious Avatars/Icons/unit skins/etc, but pay-to-enter tournaments and leagues might be a good way to do it. | ||
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a176
Canada6688 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:19 achan1058 wrote: Single player campaign. The fact that there's only 2 people (including me) who mentioned it saddens me. i dont think there are many people looking forward to hots campaign. | ||
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:14 Fyodor wrote: Starcraft 2: Premium $9.99/month gets you: -Matchup/Map stats. -get to see your real MMR and promotion thresholds. -Tournament map pool in ladder. -unit customization. -Ladder priority. -access to Arcade/UMS. -access to 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA. -Obligatory WoW pet. -Sign up for a year and get one season pass of GSL/OSL. -If you are an existing WoW subscriber, you get Starcraft 2 Premium for free or at a discount. Existing retail customers get discounted premium at $9.99/year. They'd lose like 80% of their casual playerbase, lol. | ||
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NobledBlood
United States125 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:01 Niriw wrote: Ok, maybe not limiting the amount of games, but prioritizing the ones who pay over the ones who don't for it's waiting time. Skins is a horrible idea, it would be confusing for both, players, and spectators. And option costumization IS a good idea, people who want to play the conformtably would pay to set the graphics/hotkeys/sound/etc as they want, I'm not saying the game wouldn't allow you to do it, but it would be limited It's not meant for people not to play it, just for the ones who want to enjoy it fully or go pro Another ideas: -No single player for f2p -No replay function -Limited friend list -Limited Chat Channel access -Limited security (just limited to e-mail and password, no security question, no battle.net key-chain identifier) -Multiplayer only limited to 1v1 and FFA It's a terrible idea to make people pay to change the graphics settings to fit their needs. No one is going to play a game they can barely run, and less will pay to just have the ability to change it to what suits them most. The limited security is also a tons of BS. So because you pay for the game you get more defense for your account? That's like mafia style shake down right there. | ||
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CursOr
United States6335 Posts
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blug
Australia623 Posts
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Ozkan
United States26 Posts
On September 23 2012 12:39 CwnAnnwn wrote: I really dont like it personally. It might be good for esports and blizzard but I still dont like it. I have a big fear that it will just be "pay to win". Blizzard would never do that, especially to a game they made to be a sport. Also it just doesnt happen LoL for example another competitive rts doesnt have pay to win and their f2p | ||
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NobledBlood
United States125 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:14 Fyodor wrote: Starcraft 2: Premium $9.99/month gets you: -Matchup/Map stats. -get to see your real MMR and promotion thresholds. -Tournament map pool in ladder. -unit customization. -Ladder priority. -access to Arcade/UMS. -access to 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA. -Obligatory WoW pet. -Sign up for a year and get one season pass of GSL/OSL. -If you are an existing WoW subscriber, you get Starcraft 2 Premium for free or at a discount. Existing retail customers get discounted premium at $9.99/year. Why would we have to pay for a game we already bought? This isn't WoW, we were given a one time deal payment of 60$. Why would they charge us 10$ a month for everything we get now? | ||
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achan1058
1091 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:26 a176 wrote: i dont think there are many people looking forward to hots campaign. Maybe not people on this website, but most people who bought Wings of Liberty aren't on this website. Just about everyone I know who bought the game plays only the campaign and 4v4's. Edit: And comp stomps. | ||
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MrF
United States320 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:14 Fyodor wrote: Starcraft 2: Premium $9.99/month gets you: -Matchup/Map stats. -get to see your real MMR and promotion thresholds. -Tournament map pool in ladder. -unit customization. -Ladder priority. -access to Arcade/UMS. -access to 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA. -Obligatory WoW pet. -Sign up for a year and get one season pass of GSL/OSL. -If you are an existing WoW subscriber, you get Starcraft 2 Premium for free or at a discount. Existing retail customers get discounted premium at $9.99/year. -Tournament map pool in ladder. So what you are going to have two different ladders or just extra maps for some people, makes no sense wouldn't work. -Ladder priority. Silly, wait time isn't long in SC2. -access to 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA. This would take away 2v2 ect from people who bought the game and have been playing it for years no way this can happen. Basically micro transactions are the only way to make it F2P you cant have a premium subscription system in a game that is already free to play once you have bought it, and honestly I don't see how they can make enough money on micro transactions without ruining the balance of the game. Custom skins just dont seem like enough but maybe it could work. | ||
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dnld12
United States324 Posts
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bakarin
Japan121 Posts
But then again I hate F2P | ||
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SgtCoDFish
United Kingdom1520 Posts
It'd be nice to have a single sum equal to or slightly greater than the cost of a typical game nowadays that you can pay to get everything, but I could live without that. I'd also rather not have a subscription based method, but again if it's an option I don't care too much. | ||
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Belisarius
Australia6231 Posts
About the worst thing that I can see them doing is adding unit skin packs making things confusing. Tournaments can just turn those off. I think a few years after the last xpack, it might be a good way to continue making money from the franchise. In that respect, keeping blizzard's support for the game in later years can only be a good thing for the community. Right now, though, with two xpacks to go, I'm not sure it's such a good idea. | ||
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Pucca
Taiwan1280 Posts
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Fyodor
Canada971 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:31 MrF wrote: -Tournament map pool in ladder. So what you are going to have two different ladders or just extra maps for some people, makes no sense wouldn't work. -Ladder priority. Silly, wait time isn't long in SC2. -access to 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA. This would take away 2v2 ect from people who bought the game and have been playing it for years no way this can happen. Basically micro transactions are the only way to make it F2P you cant have a premium subscription system in a game that is already free to play once you have bought it, and honestly I don't see how they can make enough money on micro transactions without ruining the balance of the game. Custom skins just dont seem like enough but maybe it could work. Why did you silly guys assume that they take away things from retail players... Explain to me how they could get that passed by the FTC, EU, etc... The point is that there is Legacy players that keep what they already have and can buy into premium to get the other goodies introduced. Feel dumber having to spell it out. | ||
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GreenStim
Mexico91 Posts
skins for the UI maybe 3-5 $ mmr reset 5-10 $ beta key 10$ name changes 2-4$ things that add up to the experience and not really go the way of reducing stuff and only reward with a monthly fee | ||
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ClysmiC
United States2192 Posts
On September 23 2012 12:41 Boiler Bandsman wrote: Is there any precedent for this in the RTS world? All the examples of free-to-play I can think of are RPG-related in some way. Pretty sure the AOE online thingy was free to play... but pay to win. | ||
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Sufinsil
United States760 Posts
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