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Poll: Will you buy or boycott StarCraft 2?Buy (1065) 78% Boycott (308) 22% 1373 total votes Your vote: Will you buy or boycott StarCraft 2? (Vote): Buy
(Vote): Boycott
I myself also "used to be" a blizzard fan, playing all of the games they have ever released (sc bw, d2, wc3, wow, etc).
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128252
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128014
In 2008, as reported by Forbes magazine, Robert Kotick received nearly $15 million USD in salary, benefits, options and incentives for his work with Activision Blizzard, of which $899,560 was his actual salary.
Some of his quotes:
"We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games."
Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."[13]
I've read numerous threads on TL which complained the way blizzard is taking, and their overall policies. I read all of the blue posts, and all of the interviews with the developers.
However, none of these are surprising or are anything new to me. I played WoW for years until latest expansions and personally experienced the way blizzard handles things and their policies toward WoW playerbase. They never listen to the community, unless it is a suggestion that can generate them more money. Of all the suggestions and proposed balance changes players posted on forums, only suggestions they accepted were things like paid name change service, paid character server transfer, in game mounts that cost $20, etc.
I was able to foresee the direction the B.net 0.2 will be taking ever since they forced WoW players into merging their accounts to a new "battle.net account". New b.net 0.2 is exactly like how WoW or other MMORPG servers work. Its definately very un-RTS like. Things like regional locking, "characters (lol?)", parties (SC2 =/= RPG), and achievements (direct ripoff from WoW). I repeat, SC2 is an RTS, not an MMO like WoW. Even their new matchmaking system is completely taken from WoW's arena matchmaking system, which became worse in latest expansion, by the way. Blizzard believes that since WoW made them so much cash, turning SC2 into another WoW would yield them more money. In fact, one of the probable reasons why they are incorporating so much WOW bullshit into SC2 is to attract their vast reservoir of WOW gamers into buying SC2. Remember that tauren marine april fools joke? And lot of the units (roaches, stalker, immortal, etc) looks like those nerubian WC3 / WOW units.
Blizzard did say they will add things like chat rooms in the future. However, I know for 100% sure that there will be NO LAN in this game. There will also be no cross-regional play, since that is completely incompatible with how the new B.net 0.2 works. Afterall, blizzard wants customers to buy one copy of the game for each of the regions. I myself have a US and EU realm WoW accounts, and they're completely separate and incompatible with one another.
Therefore, don't expect any significant change for B.net 0.2 as it was in beta, except for addition of chat rooms. Only other differences will be that there will be bunch of extra "paid" features. In fact, they even stated that they planned on monetizing on player-made custom maps. Plus Blizz has reputation of taking months fix even simplest bugs in WoW. Rogue's vanish has been bugged since 2006 and still never been fixed.
Overall, 2008 and onwards blizzard has transformed into another EA like company that nickel dimes the gamers and neglect them completely pretty much. This is why I am going to boycott SC2 and all of the future blizzard products (D3, WoW-cataclysm, etc).
P.S. i will only buy this game if they add LAN and cross server play.
By the way, sign this LAN petition (over 250,000 sigs so far)
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/LANSC2/
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Bnet has screwed up a little bit, but after trying out wc3 custom games yesterday I have to say I absolutely love the new custom game browser in comparison. I can't believe people want to go back to the shitty wc3 system where games appear randomly on your list and joining with friends is nearly impossible.
They need to add LAN/non-bnet hosting and it will be awesome. I'm not really going to miss chat rooms. No cross realms really does suck too, hopefully they'll change that at some point.
SC2 is still by far the best game released in several years, definitely going to buy it.
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SC2 is a great game.
But at the same time, it is against my personal and moral principle to donate money to corporate pigs such as activision blizzard. Therefore i have a dilemma here.
Only way they will decide to change their policies for SC2 and all of their future games is if their sales drop to zero due to boycotts and piracy.
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The term boycott is so ridiculous, it's such a petulant stance.
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to be honest i dont see LAN being that important as many say. i just want the game to work smooth and i think the latency is just fine in bnet2.0. i can micro my units and do my stuff without feeling the delay so much.
in lans of sc1 tours almost everyone used the iccup server which was "lan" LAN and this was better for the player than actual LAN because u were more used to iccups latency than actual lan latency.
same will work for sc2 and players will be happy there is same latency in every tournament and place so u can play ur game well.
in iccup most of the times high lat or low lat didnt matter so much and most of times i had to play on high lat which was just fine for me even at higher levels.
i would be better player and have better games if i always had high lat on iccup rather than low lat vs foreigners and high vs koreans. so at end of the day its better with a good connection to bnet2 than lan latency imo
i personally think the latency is gonna be ok but everything else sucks about bnet 2
im gonna get my game for free so its not much questions for me. if u like sc2 u should buy it even if they r greedy suits who only want money.
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The gameplay is good, so i'll buy it. I have hopes that bnet 2.0 will improve in the future.
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On June 08 2010 19:33 Brad wrote:
The term boycott is so ridiculous, it's such a petulant stance.
There are many people who are being turned away from SC2 and won't be buying the game. I myself included. Therefore, term boycott is the strongest and most effective way to describe this.
Since I read many posts which people said they won't be buying the game, I just want to see how many people would actually go through with their statements.
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Preordered, game's so solid right now. Already addicted  .
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On June 08 2010 19:34 DarKFoRcE wrote:
The gameplay is good, so i'll buy it. I have hopes that bnet 2.0 will improve in the future.
and that is how activision is misleading you. they are exploiting SC1 and blizzard's past good reputation into making fans believe that they will improve bnet 0.2, when in fact they won't. After enough units have been sold and money have been squeezed out of SC2, they will simply stop caring
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On June 08 2010 19:35 killercheebo wrote:Show nested quote +On June 08 2010 19:33 Brad wrote:
The term boycott is so ridiculous, it's such a petulant stance. There are many people who are being turned away from SC2 and won't be buying the game. I myself included. Therefore, term boycott is the strongest and most effective way to describe this. Since I read many posts which people said they won't be buying the game, I just want to see how many people would actually go through with their statements.
now ppl can say "ok i wont buy it" just to be cool fit in and feel good about themselves beacuse they go their way. but how long is it gonna take? 1 month or 1 year? blizzard knows that they will eventually just give up and guy the game, it will improve by time and i bet 90% of ppl who say this will just wait for a few patches and bnet to get alittle sharper then buy the game anyway
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this thread is slightly silly, 90% of those who go - im not going to buy, will end up buying the game anyway. so whole poll for this topic is mute.
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Buy, just give it terrible ratings for bnet 2.0.
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I will still be buying it.
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Buy, of course, but I will support the piracy movement against them. All it takes is for one group to release a makeshift-LAN patch, and then Blizzard will have no reason to hold out against implementing it in the game.
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On June 08 2010 19:27 shawabawa wrote:
Bnet has screwed up a little bit, but after trying out wc3 custom games yesterday I have to say I absolutely love the new custom game browser in comparison. I can't believe people want to go back to the shitty wc3 system where games appear randomly on your list and joining with friends is nearly impossible.
What are you talking about? If you want to play with your friends then create the game yourself. How is the new system better for that?
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I want to boycott it because of all the bullshit Blizzard pulled off and his getting away with...
But... I want to play the game you know... So yeah, I know I will end up buying it.
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come on, we already had a thread like this and it got closed. So should this one
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lol boycot.. 
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Why not have buy/not buy as an options? Anyway didn't we had enough of those polls already?
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