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StarCraft 2 Going Free-to-Play on November 14 - Page 3

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Garuga
Profile Joined June 2015
49 Posts
November 03 2017 20:03 GMT
#41
Doesn't this create an incentive for Blizzard to NOT spend more time on Starcraft? Since they will earn essentially no money from it?
GSTL
Profile Joined August 2016
18 Posts
November 03 2017 20:03 GMT
#42
Hopefully team games will be full again.

Hopefully even SOTIS can be revived. Arguably SOTIS was much better fan made moba than Blizzard's made HotS. In fact, most of my in game friends migrated to LOL after playing Sotis.
GSTL
Profile Joined August 2016
18 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-03 20:04:38
November 03 2017 20:04 GMT
#43
On November 04 2017 05:03 Garuga wrote:
Doesn't this create an incentive for Blizzard to NOT spend more time on Starcraft? Since they will earn essentially no money from it?


They expect to get money through skins and chests, which is way better way to profit than trying to sell old game.
DreamOen
Profile Joined March 2010
Spain1400 Posts
November 03 2017 20:05 GMT
#44
What does it mean for us that payed that game? any goodies for us for beeing loyal for all these years?
Tester | MC | Crank | Flash | Jaedong | MVP
GSTL
Profile Joined August 2016
18 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-03 20:08:56
November 03 2017 20:07 GMT
#45
On November 04 2017 05:05 DreamOen wrote:
What does it mean for us that payed that game? any goodies for us for beeing loyal for all these years?

We will get some small gifts, but over all the biggest thing for us is hopefully alive game with plenty new players and our veteran skilled status
Zaros
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom3692 Posts
November 03 2017 20:18 GMT
#46
I think if they just leave it like this starcraft 2 is F2P go then its not gonna change much, they really need to promote it and reach out to new players otherwise I don't see it bringing that many more people.
KiF1rE
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States964 Posts
November 03 2017 20:30 GMT
#47
On November 04 2017 05:18 Zaros wrote:
I think if they just leave it like this starcraft 2 is F2P go then its not gonna change much, they really need to promote it and reach out to new players otherwise I don't see it bringing that many more people.


Agreed, the partial F2P we had before didn't really bring in to many new players and reddit was constantly filled with people asking what to buy to try the game. And they had no idea a good portion was already free.
washikie
Profile Joined February 2011
United States752 Posts
November 03 2017 20:35 GMT
#48
On November 04 2017 05:07 GSTL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2017 05:05 DreamOen wrote:
What does it mean for us that payed that game? any goodies for us for beeing loyal for all these years?

We will get some small gifts, but over all the biggest thing for us is hopefully alive game with plenty new players and our veteran skilled status


Agreed If it helps with alive game, I wont complain that I bought all the games.
"when life gives Hero lemons he makes carriers" -Artosis
ryuhayabusa69xtc
Profile Joined August 2017
6 Posts
November 03 2017 21:24 GMT
#49
so... why the hell is lotv excluded? is there even 1 person who will pay for lotv campaign??
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
November 03 2017 21:25 GMT
#50
On November 04 2017 06:24 ryuhayabusa69xtc wrote:
so... why the hell is lotv excluded? is there even 1 person who will pay for lotv campaign??

I mean... obviously yes.
'StarCraft is just a fairy tale told to scare children actually.'
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BaneRiders
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden3630 Posts
November 03 2017 21:28 GMT
#51
On November 04 2017 06:25 Ansibled wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2017 06:24 ryuhayabusa69xtc wrote:
so... why the hell is lotv excluded? is there even 1 person who will pay for lotv campaign??

I mean... obviously yes.


Well, let's put it like this: is there 1 person who would buy lotv campaign that hasn't already?
Earth, Water, Air and Protoss!
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5282 Posts
November 03 2017 21:32 GMT
#52
On November 04 2017 03:40 highsis wrote:
Not convinced if this will revive the game, but I guess the playerbase will increase partially at least.

I think SC2's fall in popularity had more to do with its high hurdle to learn than the pricetag.

Besides most people on TL already own all 3 games, no?

I don't. Only own WoL, wasn't drawn to purchase the other ones, I didn't like the feel of SC2.

Now I'll probably install it.
Argonauta
Profile Joined July 2016
Spain4967 Posts
November 03 2017 21:42 GMT
#53
Woha I didnt expect it, pple was talking about it a lot but I didnt see Blizzard as that kind of company.
Rogue | Maru | Scarlett | Trap
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HornyHerring
Profile Joined March 2011
Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
November 03 2017 21:45 GMT
#54
On November 04 2017 06:28 BaneRiders wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2017 06:25 Ansibled wrote:
On November 04 2017 06:24 ryuhayabusa69xtc wrote:
so... why the hell is lotv excluded? is there even 1 person who will pay for lotv campaign??

I mean... obviously yes.


Well, let's put it like this: is there 1 person who would buy lotv campaign that hasn't already?

Yeah, I didn't even know about blizzcon, logged in to my bnet account to buy LotV only to find out it's going F2P. Bought it anyway, because I wanted to play the campaign.
oh, hai
Creager
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1923 Posts
November 03 2017 21:46 GMT
#55
Instead of getting a skin and portraits I'd rather have an option to disable skins as kind of premium service.
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BaneRiders
Profile Joined August 2013
Sweden3630 Posts
November 03 2017 21:51 GMT
#56
On November 04 2017 06:45 HornyHerring wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2017 06:28 BaneRiders wrote:
On November 04 2017 06:25 Ansibled wrote:
On November 04 2017 06:24 ryuhayabusa69xtc wrote:
so... why the hell is lotv excluded? is there even 1 person who will pay for lotv campaign??

I mean... obviously yes.


Well, let's put it like this: is there 1 person who would buy lotv campaign that hasn't already?

Yeah, I didn't even know about blizzcon, logged in to my bnet account to buy LotV only to find out it's going F2P. Bought it anyway, because I wanted to play the campaign.


What kept you so long?
Earth, Water, Air and Protoss!
Yiome
Profile Joined February 2014
China1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-03 22:01:43
November 03 2017 22:01 GMT
#57
Late but necessary rebranding to sort out the expansion mess. Should make marketing much easier and stop all the confusion from new players with the game versions.
Maybe won't have a huge impact on saturated western market, but I think this potentially can boost starcraft's popularity in China by a good margin, assuming Netease does its marketing right. Chinese starcraft play base already benefit a lot from co-op mode, drawing in a lot of young audience. Not really much other good sci-fi themed games competing with starcraft for this share of market.
Xamo
Profile Joined April 2012
Spain886 Posts
November 03 2017 22:14 GMT
#58
This is great news!
My life for Aiur. You got a piece of me, baby. IIIIIIiiiiiii.
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
November 03 2017 22:43 GMT
#59
This is absolutely huge. We can hope for a complete SC2 revival
Cluster__
Profile Joined September 2013
United States328 Posts
November 03 2017 22:54 GMT
#60
This is definitely the correct direction
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