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StarCraft 2 Going Free-to-Play on November 14 - Page 9

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Mun_Su
Profile Joined December 2012
France2063 Posts
November 05 2017 17:24 GMT
#161
On November 06 2017 00:20 Dingodile wrote:
It's not 7 years to late. I would say 2 years.



Why 2 years late, if I may ask.
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Silvanel
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Poland4751 Posts
November 05 2017 17:44 GMT
#162
Great! At last!
Pathetic Greta hater.
Deleuze
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom2102 Posts
November 05 2017 18:04 GMT
#163
This is good news, but I'd like to know more details about the business model. They only very recently integrated loot boxes into the game didn't they?
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WhosQuany
Profile Joined June 2013
Germany257 Posts
November 05 2017 18:14 GMT
#164
I thought this was comming a few years ago. But still nice!!!!!!!!
Goin back to Cali
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
November 05 2017 18:16 GMT
#165
On November 06 2017 02:24 Mun_Su wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2017 00:20 Dingodile wrote:
It's not 7 years to late. I would say 2 years.



Why 2 years late, if I may ask.

Maybe because the anti cheat protection was pathetic?
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NasusAndDraven
Profile Joined April 2015
359 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-05 18:59:03
November 05 2017 18:58 GMT
#166
On November 06 2017 03:04 Deleuze wrote:
This is good news, but I'd like to know more details about the business model.


What is there you dont know? They want money from people buying campaings, skins, announcer pack and other micro content. Just like every other f2p game.
Ansibled
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom9872 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-11-06 00:12:29
November 06 2017 00:11 GMT
#167
When does the new map pool / patch come out? Is it the same time the game goes F2P?
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maitiky
Profile Joined November 2016
Czech Republic54 Posts
November 06 2017 06:27 GMT
#168
On November 06 2017 00:07 Rollora wrote:
7 years too late and it doesn't change the problem, that MP is still volatile, often not skillbased and therefore often frustrating for those who really wanna try play an "honest" game (meaning without BS). Blizzard didn't change some critical stuff for 7 years or it took them several years to fix some stuff that was criticised about since the beta.


If it wasn't skill based, there wouldn't be the best players on the top... but they are on the top. And sorry, but WTF is "an honest game"? You think cannon rushing is not an honest game?
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david0925
Profile Joined September 2010
212 Posts
November 06 2017 07:29 GMT
#169
I am/was a pretty casual SC1/2 player and I think the biggest things that kept me playing are definitely the campaign and Co-op missions.

I can't say for other games, but I think SC1/2 are very focused around 1v1 as opposed to team games, which is the opposite of what a lot of online game players are looking for. As far as player versus player goes, I don't really have a good answer to this. Ladder anxiety (despite the fact that there is unranked one) is often the number 1 reason players I know shy away from playing the game, and having teammates to fall back on is often the key to game success. Both MOBA and FPS follow this pretty religiously with 5v5s.

I'm really not that optimistic in seeing single player (1v1) growths, but hopefully we'll at least bring people in starting with campaigns and at least into team games (pve or pvp)
Asturas
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Finland587 Posts
November 06 2017 09:06 GMT
#170
Great news!

However, IMO it should have happened with the premiere of LotV. It might be way too late now. I hope I'm wrong, I would love to see SC2 becoming popular again.

Also, I hope it won't bring too many hackers.
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PharaphobiaSC
Profile Joined April 2016
Czech Republic457 Posts
November 06 2017 10:27 GMT
#171
It's not gonna bring new players in, however it will be not hard to justify prizepool for events from skins and stuffs
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KOtical
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany451 Posts
November 06 2017 10:42 GMT
#172
f2p = more cheaters incoming
LDaVinci
Profile Joined May 2014
France130 Posts
November 06 2017 11:08 GMT
#173
probably not a lot more cheater, but a lot more cheaters accounts. As any of them will be able to create infinite number of account. Blizzard needs to make drastic measures to fight cheaters now.
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OkStyX
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
Canada1199 Posts
November 06 2017 12:36 GMT
#174
On November 06 2017 20:08 LDaVinci wrote:
probably not a lot more cheater, but a lot more cheaters accounts. As any of them will be able to create infinite number of account. Blizzard needs to make drastic measures to fight cheaters now.


I thought that they banned IP's.
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mishimaBeef
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2259 Posts
November 06 2017 13:21 GMT
#175
good now more ai researchers
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LDaVinci
Profile Joined May 2014
France130 Posts
November 06 2017 13:49 GMT
#176
On November 06 2017 21:36 Shakattak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 06 2017 20:08 LDaVinci wrote:
probably not a lot more cheater, but a lot more cheaters accounts. As any of them will be able to create infinite number of account. Blizzard needs to make drastic measures to fight cheaters now.


I thought that they banned IP's.


Because it is hard for someone who wrote a code to hack a game, to make it also change the IP.
They need to improve their reaction time, and ban people after few games.
Maybe develop an anti hack software (I dunno how efficient this could be) that would block the game of something. Then I'm no hacker myself, but hiring actual hackers to make it safer could also be a good idea (if they didn't have it yet)
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itherBVB
Profile Joined July 2017
Bangladesh1 Post
November 06 2017 14:29 GMT
#177
great decision.gonna join soon from brood war
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imp42
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
398 Posts
November 06 2017 18:48 GMT
#178
On November 06 2017 23:29 itherBVB wrote:
great decision.gonna join soon from brood war

Just when I was about to write that f2p SC2 could impossibly be negative in any way you give me a reason :p
Ok, so we might lose some BW players, which is bad. I hadn't thought about that.

But apart from that people really shouldn't complain.

So you invested a couple dollars several years ago and now you're not happy because others get it for free?
Just take this perspective: You paid to play SC2 from 2010 to 2017. And IMO the early years were the best years. So new players will never get what you got.
Also, the price per hour played is ridiculously good anyways, assuming you play multi-player.

Maybe too late, maybe it will bring cheaters along with new players, but definitely positive news.
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swissman777
Profile Joined September 2014
1106 Posts
November 06 2017 19:05 GMT
#179
Can we pls have changes to WoL and HotS ladder maps? I don't think they have changed in a loooooong while
maddogmcgee
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia105 Posts
November 06 2017 19:58 GMT
#180
No one will play WoL or HotS games. They might not even be available anymore.
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