Battle.net 2.0 rumours - Page 5

On July 25 2008 15:56 nullmind wrote:
I think people get so intimidated by stats. I think stats should be only visible for personal viewing and have just have rank or grade visible. Maybe a system like Top 1000 players certain rank/grade and next grade for like 1001~5000, 5001~10000, 10001~20000, etc.. So you wont have to worry about not being able to find opponent since there's always couple thousand people with your rank.

On July 25 2008 12:29 prOxi.swAMi wrote:

It's not like you don't _get_ the game when you buy it. Fuck. You think it doesn't cost Blizzard money to maintain Battle.net? Of course people shouldn't be over-generous with their money but don't call people fools for being willing to pay for a service when they receive it. In fact, I believe the opposite of a financially over-generous individual would be a thief. Hi thief.

On July 26 2008 00:26 ramen247 wrote:
who the heck cares about stats. stats dont mean crap. do you know how much abuse this will lead to?

On July 25 2008 17:44 maybenexttime wrote:


No, that only creates new problems:

"Yeah, and that's totally bad...

What if my brother wants to play SC2 too but he's of different skill level? Why does he have to buy another CD key?

What if I want to learn a new race? I'm definitely not level 30 with Zerg just because I am with Terran, right?"

On July 25 2008 12:29 prOxi.swAMi wrote:

It's not like you don't _get_ the game when you buy it. Fuck. You think it doesn't cost Blizzard money to maintain Battle.net? Of course people shouldn't be over-generous with their money but don't call people fools for being willing to pay for a service when they receive it. In fact, I believe the opposite of a financially over-generous individual would be a thief. Hi thief.

On July 25 2008 14:36 VIB wrote:
Why are there STILL people advocating for paying extra money for using bnet? It has been said multiple times on this thread, I thought it would be clear by now that it makes zero sense to pay additional for bnet. If the acc is linked to the cd-key you'd already need to pay for an additional cd-key if you want to smurf. Then only allow to change name/stats within the acc but the server still knows your record. There you go, no more smurfing, problem solved. What are you guys still arguing here, what part of the obvious did you not comprehend?

On July 25 2008 19:56 FrozenArbiter wrote:

I love stats but there's a point to this.. Nothing annoys me more than retards joining a 3v3, checking the stats of their team mates, and leaving just before the countdown starts.

They can go diagf imo.

On July 24 2008 11:32 alien3456 wrote:
Hopefully they code some sort of AI that can analyze how people play. If a new account is managing their economy very well, attacking expertly, has a fairly decent APM and wins their first game, then they shouldn't be playing the other new accounts who sloppily play and win their first game by luck. Those two players will have the same rank after one game, but they shouldn't play each other in auto-matchmaking.

As long as Bnet2 has a nice UI, a good system for clans and tournaments, intelligent auto-matchmaking and a more useful/responsive listing of games... I'll be a happy player.

On July 26 2008 05:58 VIB wrote:
- According to the EULA your brother has to buy another CD-key anyway, this is also valid for sc1, wc3 and pretty much any commercial proprietary game.
- The server has access to your stats per race, there is no reason to not let you play with a different race at a different skill level

On July 26 2008 01:09 Sir.Kimmel wrote:
just link account names to cd key and make an option to formally reset it or formally change the name to blizzard...


or have a master account like steam


and just be able to make little names under it... but everyone will still be able to see the master account

On July 25 2008 02:16 teamsolid wrote:
They'll never limit # of accts on BNet because of PC Bangs.

On July 27 2008 00:18 dcttr66 wrote:

yeah this was basically my idea as well.

i think my aforementioned idea is still valid because if you consider, the pc bangs will be buying copies of starcraft anyway, the issue is that the players will not be able to use the names that they want on bnet when they go to a pc bang. but if you think about it, that could be good for the pc bang for advertising. they could make names that include their bang name, or address, phone number, etc...whatever they do it will stand out that those bnet guys are at a pc bang right? it would be kindof like clans maybe. each bang might have a bang tag or something on the names...perhaps the first players to play sc2 at those bangs will get to name those accounts, and then everyone else has to play on those or some more generic names.

i mean, when you go to a bang you really aren't playing from home anyway, so why make it look like you're playing from home as usual?
of course anytime you see a bang name you'll know it's a shared account so you won't know who to expect to play against.

i guess though this would be a problem for someone who wants to do ladder and can only play at bangs or has to spend most of their time there...but perhaps he can register with the bang to get his own private account. anyway you have to consider all the names are going to have passwords anyway, right? so theorhetically, it could definitely work. so the generic names everyone would have access to but the others only the regular ladder bang players would, or something like that.


previously posted:
"you are nada and you want to go on b.net for a break. you realize you can't noob bash because the system won't let you play even against the best player on US WEST because his stats are better than his. this is mucho gay. and what if nada wants to keep his identity a secret to prevent fans from flooding him? he can't. unless he makes an account that has nothing to do with nada. and
nada wont be able to be the guy in the player slot of the random obs game that doesnt talk and says ggglhf just before the ame starts and totally own some random noob....

seriously, starcraft's b.net works fine.

b.net 2 shouldnt have much more improvements than these:
-less server lag for more ppl being able to host
-better speed and latency
-ability for more than 8ppl a game (more obs)
-slight graphical improvements
-more friend list space
-better way to reply to whispers from random person with weird name
-better friend add system
-ability to create clan
-ability to join clan without new account



SMURFING IS PART OF STARCRAFT!"

yes and well, with my idea you can have 2 smurf accounts.
but, only if you add another idea. you have to allow the smurfers to disable the part that shows other people the other account names tied to the cd key.

by the way...i think you guys should call people who smurf posers.
it makes sense, because they are posing as level one players.

On July 27 2008 00:54 dcttr66 wrote:
then go play starcraft.

as i was trying to say at the end of my post, in warcraft 3, perhaps people call those people smurfs, like they did in starcraft, but the term posers works better, and i imagine with the amm if it's anything like wc3's then it will be just as bad as posers.

so although you want to create many smurfs, you can't do so with wc3, not with the ladder system anyway. you'd just be a poser.

as for making smurfs...

maybe they could enable for the cd key besides the 3 or 4 or however many normal names/accounts some custom/ums only names/accounts which you can use for smurfing. these would not be able to play ladder, but you could change your name up and look anonymous. in fact, that could be how the pros disable the link to their bnet account. if that's what they're going to do.