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Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
February 16 2013 16:28 GMT
#41
On February 17 2013 00:44 JustPassingBy wrote:
Why are people so agitated about name changes? Don't tell me all of you married in the past few months and changed your last name... :o

Next up: Paid race change!

Hey, we change our race at most once or twice in our career anyhow, so why not?
Scootaloo SC2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States122 Posts
February 16 2013 16:33 GMT
#42
On February 17 2013 00:32 Targe wrote:
It's just so you can remove clan tags from your name. They aren't nickel and diming anything.

They are nickel and diming by making users pay money whenever they want to change their names, a service that costs them essentially nothing.

If you care so much that it is hard for you to change your name with Blizzard then why don't you complain you cannot change your name after 500 posts on TL?

Apples and oranges. When other online games lets one change profile names at one's leisure, coming up to a "pay me to advance" roadblock is naturally frustrating. Gaming profile names should not be immutable.

Plus, TL at least provides an explanation for their "500 posts" rule, and it's not one I'm gonna bump into anytime soon, anyway. : )

rasnj
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1959 Posts
February 16 2013 16:43 GMT
#43
On February 17 2013 01:13 opisska wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2013 00:44 JustPassingBy wrote:
Why are people so agitated about name changes? Don't tell me all of you married in the past few months and changed your last name... :o


I for on am agitated about the idea of having to possible pay for a thing that does not actually cost antyhing.

It would be completely fine if this was a free2play game and the monetizes on there little extra things. But I don't know about you, but I have payed fucking 50 Euro for SC2, so I would expect not to pay for nonsensical reason.

I don't actually want to change my nickname, I have one that I use universally and I like it but still, it makes me go nuts everytime I hear about the idea of paying for it. It is just so monumentaly idiotic that it overflows even my very high level of idiocy-resistance that has been nurtiured by many years on the internet.

You can't really separate costs like that though. If you really think like that you could also say that Blizzard maintains servers, patches their game and occasionally bans a hacker, all of which cost money, but you only paid for the initial game, not the subsequent services which Blizzard provides for free (my point is obviously that it is not really free, it is part of the initial cost of the game, but it need not be). Maybe their game really should cost 52 Euro if they didn't charge for name changes (not really since apparently Blizzard doesn't want to implement paid name change, but hypothetically the point stands).

Obviously name change could be free and that would be fine, but personally I would actually prefer name changes to have a small cost associated to them (maybe $5 or something along those lines). That way it is much easier to keep track of who you are playing and therefore knowing whether they are an asshole, cheeser, hacker or a generally nice dude.
jake1138
Profile Joined September 2011
United States82 Posts
February 17 2013 16:43 GMT
#44
So they're giving something for free that should be free anyway.
Cokefreak
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland8096 Posts
February 17 2013 16:46 GMT
#45
On February 18 2013 01:43 jake1138 wrote:
So they're giving something for free that should be free anyway.

Care to give at least one argument as to why it should be free?
Conti
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany2516 Posts
February 17 2013 16:49 GMT
#46
On February 18 2013 01:46 Cokefreak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 18 2013 01:43 jake1138 wrote:
So they're giving something for free that should be free anyway.

Care to give at least one argument as to why it should be free?

..it costs Blizzard quite literally nothing to change your name in their database?
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