Increased Discussions at Blizzard Regarding Skins - Page 4

On July 31 2014 21:55 Djzapz wrote:
Since SC2 is not all about the competitive scene, I think skins might be a good thing to get people to stick around and to pay more, and of course you should be able to turn them off if you don't want to see them because the last thing you need is a "what the fuck is that" moment during competitive play when you see dark templars shoot up your ramp on little motorcycles.

People are going to be opposed to it because many of us here are purists but meh, sometimes you have to go with it. At first I thought CSGO skins were stupid. Now I still think they're stupid but I want them . (Thankfully I've never spent any money on it)

On July 31 2014 22:02 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:

CSGO skins are only for weapons so it's totaly different than unit skins.

Since SC2 is not all about the competitive scene, I think skins might be a good thing to get people to stick around and to pay more, and of course you should be able to turn them off if you don't want to see them because the last thing you need is a "what the !@#$%^&* is that" moment during competitive play when you see dark templars shoot up your ramp on little motorcycles.

On July 31 2014 18:27 Zealously wrote:

LoL has definitely made it work, and I think LoL's success is what most people are looking at.

On July 31 2014 23:38 sc2isnotdying wrote:



Also Blizzard's Hearthstone

Starcraft's value is in the single player campaigns which is why the game is not F2P (also it mostly predates the F2P model) but I could see Blizzard offering up multiplayer SC2 as a F2P option with purchasable skins and hats. I wouldn't be offended by that. Personally I'm not the market for it as I don't give a !@#$%^&* about hats, but clearly a lot of gamers like that sort of thing.

On July 31 2014 23:47 Hider wrote:


This won't be done for 3 reasons;

1) Blizzard still wants to earn money through selling LOTV. So they can't make it F2p before that.

2) You can't just relaunch an old product as a F2P and expect it to be popular. Starcraft has already been positioned as a "has"-been product. It would be very expensive to try to reposition Starcraft and the gains would be debateable.

3) The 1on1 game isn't casual-friendly. It would need a completley new model in order satifiy the needs of the casuals. Unfortunately, casual Starcraft bascially died with the fail of the arcade. And F2P arcade never really made a big impact even though casuals would have been a ton more likely to prefer the arcade over the 1on1. But casuals today are just much more interested in other games than Starcraft

My point is that the whole idea that we can just solve Starcraft's issue through changes to the business model is just wish-thinking. We all want to see it happen, but in reality we have to accept that Starcraft will continue to decline regardless of what is being done.