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Facebook recently changed their API usage policy and decided to prevent third-party games like StarCraft II from utilizing their network to make social connections. Because of that, we removed the Facebook friend-finder feature from StarCraft II in patch 1.5.4.
While the changes that Facebook made are out of our control, don’t forget that we’re adding a bunch of cool social features to Heart of the Swarm, such as Clans and Groups. If you have access to the Swarm beta, you can log in and try them out now.
As always, thanks for your continued enthusiasm and support for StarCraft II.
Source: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/7592202481
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SC2 had a Facebook friend finder? I didn't even know that Oo
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Don't use facebook. Don't care.
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I used the friend finder  It was a nice way to add like 25 friends at once.
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One of the better features lost ): ): ): ):
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On January 18 2013 06:17 aike wrote:I used the friend finder It was a nice way to add like 25 friends at once.
Yeah, at the end of the day it wasn't a bad feature.
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lol, this reads like good news 
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I remember how laggy the WoL beta was for weeks after the facebook patch..
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On January 18 2013 06:16 stormtemplar wrote:
The best part is that facebook integration was a running joke.
Haha, I actually remember that yeah.
In the end though, I was able to add and connect to quite a number of people through my facebook in the end. It wasn't all that bad.
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Oh no something I never used is gone I am so sad
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Shame, I used it a lot back in '11 when people actually played
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well... at least we have chat channels now?
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Noooo!
wait....
it actually did nothing other than connecting you to friends who you probably already had on your battle.net account anyway.
Won't be a missed feature.
Maybe if they'd integrated it properly and actually had it do something, like let you use Facebook chat in-game or something they may have done away for the need for chat channels like they initially wanted to. But as was, it provided no useful functionality, and certainly didn't help the social aspect of the game, which it still sorely needs.
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On January 18 2013 06:39 Gingerninja wrote:
Noooo!
wait....
it actually did nothing other than connecting you to friends who you probably already had on your battle.net account anyway.
Won't be a missed feature.
Maybe if they'd integrated it properly and actually had it do something, like let you use Facebook chat in-game or something they may have done away for the need for chat channels like they initially wanted to. But as was, it provided no useful functionality, and certainly didn't help the social aspect of the game, which it still sorely needs.
Actually i addes a lot of friends with thif feature...
It was no the best thing ever but still...
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Oh no, whatever shall I do on SC2 now?
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This is not good for me. I can not remember anyone's names. It would be nice to have it for Hots that way i know I had some IRL connections with them and I could refind my old friends. But that being said I think there is only 2 people left that still play from my facebook out of the 50 i added.
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I loved this feature. It makes friending a one click process, rather than a long multi-stage heap of garbage.
Think about what this means for the games industry. Facebook is the social integration option for almost all games right now. Facebook isn't making money off this, so they're taking it away from all Desktop/Web applications to force more games onto their platform.
It also opens up an opportunity for google to step up and provide a service that the games industry needs.
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EPT
