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All.In
United States214 Posts
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Sufinsil
United States760 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:46 ClysmiC wrote: Pretty sure the AOE online thingy was free to play... but pay to win. Shattered Galaxy, squad MMO RTS, had a free account that had limitations (less xp, less credits, cap of level). Battleforge, http://www.battleforge.com/ . | ||
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bosnia
Canada223 Posts
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Lunareste
United States3596 Posts
If you watched the eSports congress they asked DB if they thought that being free to play was necessary to make a successful eSport; he responded he doesn't believe it works for every genre, but they have put thought into how they would monetize the game if they went that route. They haven't really come up with a correct solution as they don't want the person who spent more money to have more units, etc. | ||
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Norada
China482 Posts
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czylu
477 Posts
On September 23 2012 12:38 NobledBlood wrote: All they have to do is give us Paid name changes, and it will pay for itself. That is my honest opinion. paid name changes are pointless if you can just create a new free account. | ||
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rEalGuapo
Germany832 Posts
For Arcade, ranked ladder and tournaments (something I would like to see in SC II the way it was in Warcraft 3) you would need to buy the full version, this way anyone who wants to try it out will be able to, but if you want to get competetive you have to invest money. I really don't want my Starcraft units to wear hats. . . . Another possibility would be to constantly add on profile pictures that can be bought, as well as profile backgrounds, MAYBE limit the map pool to something 4 and make extra maps purchasable. F2P in an RTS will be something difficult to establish since money HAS to be made and I do not want tons and tons of ads in the game.. | ||
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rEalGuapo
Germany832 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:52 czylu wrote: paid name changes are pointless if you can just create a new free account. unless you do not want your profile to reset. I rather stay ranked the way I am and keep my profile pictures if it means paying 2 bucks instead for the name change.. | ||
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Resonance
Canada113 Posts
Pay for: 1) Name changes 2) Additional avatars 3) Additional decals 4) Different unit models 5) *insert any crap that blizzard could make money off of that doesnt screw with the balance of the game* 6) Name changes | ||
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FXOTheoRy
United States519 Posts
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Blardy
United States290 Posts
Maybe test on the PTR if there's would be a different in having a skin for upgraded vs non-upgraded, client side still. Aka slow marauders now wardogs and blink stalkers now dark stalkers. Skins from the campaign can be Incorporated into multiplayer. | ||
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Sylfyre
Australia222 Posts
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
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robopork
United States511 Posts
I really like the online tourney option someone mentioned. Buy in, blizzard gets a cut, the rest goes to a prize pool. Didn't wc3 have blizzard operated online tournaments? It'd be the love child of that and d3's auction house. Name changes, clan support, portraits, some higher end arcade stuff, skins with a toggleable "view" for the opponent- that's all great stuff. I think blizzard should try to get it to work. As a side note, I think lol owes a good deal of it's popularity to the fact that it's free to play. If sc2 was free to play, I guarantee a LOT more people would play it. But seriously, blizzard would never comodify anything that would give an edge in the actual game; they're not that stupid. We nerds, on the otherhand, tend to be stupid enough to pay for superficial bullshit. At the very least, portraits and unit skins would sell like hotcakes. Dragoon skin for my stalkers? Shut the fuck up and take my money. edit: On September 23 2012 14:04 neobowman wrote: Hats ^ | ||
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salehonasi
United States87 Posts
Sell a LAN enabled version. | ||
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mjnbowlgod
198 Posts
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jax1492
United States1632 Posts
On September 23 2012 13:48 All.In wrote: I really really really want hats for my overlords. i just pictured overlords with top hats and monocles ... i laughed ... then i was scared for what the game could become. | ||
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jonaa
Netherlands151 Posts
Not to mention people would pay for just regular shit like imagine being able to purchase a ladder colour e.g. normally always red / blue but if you pay lets say 10 euros you can play as pink(or any other color) on ladder. Blizzard can host team leagues with entree fee's with an ingame clan system. They can charge for name change(will work on f2p because not everyone feels like going back up to masters and readding all their friends etc. not to mention confirmation through phone can prevent people from making mass accounts). You know how there's a colectors edition thor there can be those kind of skins for other units as long as it's not disruptive in gameplay. I like the idea of being able to purchase maybe even ui skins or sound packs or things like stronger team colour mod. People love to customize their stuff and be unique from other people and most of us are willing to lay down a few euro's for it. I know F2P will bring alot of garbage to the game, right now people that planned on getting sc2 got it but no one randomly got it. Wich means compared to other games our community is pretty mature considering most players originate from other games and have grown over the bm. But for a larger community, bigger prizes and more players I think it all might be worth it in the end. For anyone concerned about if it makes the game look unprofessional you can always develop a system where skins and such can be dissabled upon personal preference or maybe create a tourney mod where everythign turns vanilla. There's enough ways to make money out of a f2p game even an RTS the only thing they need to do is invest in a good system and wantable stuff. Ofcourse they should charge for the campaign since I believe there's a large portion of the community that will pay just for the campaign. And maybe the f2p version doesn't have 2v2 or 3v3 available? IDK maybe you have to purchase being able to play teamgames. You could let people pay a small fee like 2-5 euro's to reset their win/lose stats (if not refreshed every season) because let's face it most people love a good looking win/lose ratio. You could pay for your name in a different colour e.g. in your friendlist peopel can customize their colour and in chats too or maybe this will end up being bundled with a ladder colour. there's enough to do for money that I would personally end up paying for blizzard just has to want it / execute it well. | ||
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Lokerek
United States441 Posts
On September 23 2012 14:06 salehonasi wrote: How has nobody mentioned the most obvious one of all? Sell a LAN enabled version. You sir just won the thread-win award :D Another idea could be Reset Stats - I could see people wanting to erase their old stats and start fresh. Doesn't affect experienced players since people with master league have no reason to reset their stats. | ||
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xuanzue
Colombia1747 Posts
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