EPTSC2 is a semi-F2P - good or bad? - Page 4
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Cereb
Denmark3388 Posts
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
Since 1v1 (eh..), the arcade and ranked play are the biggest appeals, it makes sense to restrict these to pull in the sales. Do some sort of weekly arcade rotation too. | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7031 Posts
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HeavenResign
United States702 Posts
Lan play. My friends and I used to keep Brood War on thumb drives to just dive into custom games when friends are over but with SC2, even if most of my friends had an account, if everyone didn't it was all moot. Combined with spawning a player could do pretty much anything other than 1v1 or team matchmaking sans a friend that owns the game, which I think is more than fair. I think this solution also alleviates the commonly cited concern that if SC2 was totally F2P, hacking (in 1v1) would be extremely rampant since all of the info is client-side unlike Dota/LoL and it'd be easier to just create a new account. I don't think there's any downsides to expanding the Starter edition so I think it's totally a good move. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
tl;dr - With patch 2.1: ◘ AVAILABLE - All 3 races: Terran, Zerg, Protoss ◘ AVAILABLE - 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 - when Spawned (in party with player with a full SC2) ◘ AVAILABLE - Arcade (all UMS maps, not only featured) & Customs games (all maps, not only 4 SE-maps) ◘ AVAILABLE - Replays (watching, saving new ones, co-op replay observing) ◘ AVAILABLE - Only reading Chat Channels ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - 1v1 Ladder (Ranked / Unranked) and full WOL & HOTS Campaigns ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - Groups & Clans creation ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - Chat Channels usage (you can't write in Chat channels) ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - Official forums posting (You need a SC2-character to post on official forums) ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - Cow-Level Chat (click 10+ times on SC2 logo in the main menu) | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On November 12 2013 04:03 Existor wrote: ◘ NOT AVAILABLE - Cow-Level Chat (click 10+ times on SC2 logo in the main menu) This is certainly the biggest selling point of the game now. If you want access, you must purchase! | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
On November 12 2013 04:13 Darkhoarse wrote: This is certainly the biggest selling point of the game now. If you want access, you must purchase! Haha, good point. But really cow-level is just an easter-egg in SC2 menus. So you don't lose much except having "...mo-o-o!!" at the end of all your quotes. | ||
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Pirfiktshon
United States1072 Posts
 Awesome and well thought out plan by blizzard Kudos to Blizzard and the Team! | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On November 20 2013 01:12 JustPassingBy wrote: Oh, I didn't even know this cow chat exists, how active is it? :o Didn't know it either. Just went there on EU and there was 1 person afk. | ||
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eScaper-tsunami
Canada313 Posts
On November 11 2013 03:23 ZeromuS wrote: Full f2p will be patch 3.1 after LotV is out for some time likely Ummm, source? | ||
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cutler
Germany609 Posts
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Korbo
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askmc70
United States722 Posts
his ass | ||
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RTSDealer
286 Posts
On November 23 2013 12:21 Korbo wrote: They don't make it free to play because they want to make money. That's the point of running a business. Multiplayer is the reason the majority of people play this game, it'd just be bad business sense to suggest giving away a product free of charge. You should be happy that they give you anything for free. A free to play business model does not mean a company isn't making any money. Case in point: Valve's Dota 2 | ||
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Sapphire.lux
Romania2620 Posts
Nice of you to check. It's a good thing surely. How much difference it will make i don't know. I think that if this were the case since the beginning, SC2 would have been much more successful in Korea. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
It's a joke with some true in it | ||
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Lorch
Germany3691 Posts
imho all of multiplayer will be free to play some time after lotv anyways as that is the best way to monetize the game after all expansions are out. I'm sure lotv will also introduce the option for more skins/portraits etc. and maybe even monetisation via arcade. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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-stOpSKY-
Canada498 Posts
I think they should make the entire game F2P and charge people for portraits or cool unit skins or something like that to make money. Sort of like what LoL does. 1. Its going to attract more people because just playing it is free. 2. People are willing to dump small amounts of money into cool skins. Also on a side note they should bring back the old battle.net channels from SC/SC:BW. I think these changes together would dramatically improve the community. | ||
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