Global play and those with multiple SC2 copies? - Page 16

On February 12 2013 04:07 Kakaru2 wrote:
Right now the 2 copies on the smurf account will become one.

On February 12 2013 04:10 Excludos wrote:


Then whats the point of the "you only have to buy one copy of hots"? Why would you buy more than one expansion for only one game? -.-

That would be like owning 3 cars, have 2 taken away, and for someone to come "But now you only have to buy gas for one! Aint this great?"

On February 12 2013 04:30 DusTerr wrote:

People are upset because they purchased two (or more) cars for their 3 car garage. Now Blizzard is saying that everyone with at least 1 car will get a full garage of American, European and Asian cars to chose from. People who purchased more than one car and kept them in the same garage are upset because they received fewer free cars than people with only one car per garage.

Also, you cars in the same garage only need one set of registration for future use. Somehow this is also labeled as a bad thing.

Nothing is being taken away.


*edit: I'm still not changing my stance that it would be nice of Blizzard to provide CD keys to people with multiple copies on the same account. I just think all the crying is a bit sad.

On February 12 2013 04:37 Excludos wrote:


I know I started with the analogy, but that made me incredibly confused

What you're saying is that people are angry because now everyone can play global, while before you had to buy more copies? I don't think thats it at all considering we're discussing more copies of the games on different/the same account and the consequences of it.

Tbh the best way for blizz to solve any of this would be to simply let us choose which account to login to when we fire up the game. I don't see any reason why we should need to have our copies distributed over several accounts and regions, especially after global play in hots.

On February 12 2013 05:31 DusTerr wrote:

Something other than this?
(that's from the FAQ)

On February 12 2013 06:05 kuroshiro wrote:
Am I missing something?
Can you not sell the extra copy you bought to someone else? That means it has the same monetary value as a single copy and that means that nobody owes you anything.

On January 27 2013 06:50 Lonyo wrote:
With Global Play, those with 2 or more copies of SC2 on one account, for multiple regions, will have bought multiple copies of SC2 for no eventual reason. The money paid for those additional copies will be meaningless.

Should Blizzard be nice and do something like give free HotS to people who now have multiple copies of SC2 that they were made to buy because of the lack of Global Play? Or is it just a case of screw the customers and they shouldn't get anything?

https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/starcraft-ii-global-play-faq

Basically we paid twice for WoL in order to get something that is now a part of the base WoL package, so IMO we should get back that money in some fashion. Getting a free copy of HotS seems reasonable, since it was Blizzard being bad at making a game that caused the whole issue in the first place.

Clarification:

Based on current understanding, those with 1 copy of SC2 on an account will be able to play on any region and have one "character" per region.
Those with multiple copies of SC2 on one account with be able to play on any region, and also only one one "character" per region.

Basically you paid for 2 copies of SC2, and they are taking one away, based on current understanding oh how it works.

On February 12 2013 06:15 Inori wrote:
Update on my support ticket:

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On February 12 2013 06:22 Excludos wrote:


Ok, this is actually what I thought. So I will still need 3 separate games installed on my computer, but at least I'll be able to play on 3 separate accounts.

So here's my follow up questions. Since theres talk about "only needing one hots for each account", does that mean its now a lot better to keep all 3 games on the same account instead of separate accounts?

On February 12 2013 06:28 Inori wrote:

That's what I think.

Where are all the smart-asses that have foresaw global play and bought licenses on separate accounts now? :D

On February 12 2013 06:38 n0ise wrote:
that's 99% not how it's gonna work - the same way you bought an EU license and an NA license for the same account, you will also have to (I assume) buy an EU hots to upgrade your EU wol and a NA hots to upgrade your NA wol.

It would make NO sense for them to let you upgrade 2 keys with one purchase of hots. They have great PR and undoubtedly they'll help people in this position, but I highly doubt they'd do it at the direct cost of their sales.

On February 12 2013 06:56 Pinski wrote:


What are you even talking about? You can play SC2:WoL, RIGHT NOW, on EU, NA, SEA, or TW/KR with ANY license. You will only need to buy a SC:HotS to be able to play on ANY server. The problem comes in when people bought multiple region licenses, and stuck them all onto 1 account. In which case, yes we get screwed. But, whatever.