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The Beta process is meant for this kind of process of refinement. A Beta is not "it's perfect, let's let people play it." A beta is meant to find bugs, improve quality, and balance the game. It's generally considered silly to "perfect" your balance internally, because developers are classically similar minded. You need a broader audience to run into cases of "huh, I didn't think of that."
Also, six months is an extremely long beta. If everything is supposed to already be perfectly balanced, I have no idea why they feel the need to spend so much time in it. #diabloiii
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also, i love that not only is WoW in all three categories it's in 2010 twice. blizzard knows where its bread is buttered.
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10/14/09
In other words, Battle.net is not secure.
10/14/09
10/14/09
Only have the first WoW, no expansion and one character that's lvl 19 so NO BIG LOSS for me if I have to start over and buy a new account. Because by the time I'll get one is once they release the complete package with all the expansion for a REASONABLE price (which probably never in my life time).
10/14/09
10/14/09
I'm just saying that it really should be a mandatory thing for WoW accounts to be integrated with Battlenet but a voluntary one and by doing that you'll get the penguin pet (which everyone will have :rolls eyes). By threatening that I'll loose my WoW account or can't play it if I don't. It doesn't fair well with me because then I'll be expected to do a another hassle in the future or lose my account again. Would I be upset because of this, well for this game not really but it's the principle of it and well because I didn't invest too much back into the game when I bought a new account. I know eventually someone will point out the stupid ToS clause. If it was something that was seamless like how STEAM did their upgrades then it wouldn't really matter but as a PC gamers with multiple accounts with multiple gaming log in, I do not feel that I need to create a new one for something I already did when I first created it.
Also calling me a scrub just because I'm not into WoW really shows your character as a person. I feel pity for you and hopefully you'll grow up in time.
@MikeRox: I'm not in the UK, I'm in the US. I might wait until the next expansion comes out and if it's still reasonably priced I'll get it. It's just that I'm not into MMOs like I was use to and I can't sit playing hours on end either, I must be getting old :p.
10/14/09
10/14/09
So you're complaining that you need to do a 5 minute registration process (for free I might add) if you ever want to go back to your crummy account. Just to note you won't lose it but simply won't be able to play til you merge.
Seriously big whoop, a quick signup is hardly a hassle.
10/14/09
@Odin:
Who cares if it's free, would you want HIV/AIDS if I offer it to you for free?
The Battlenet 2 was a optional thing before now it's mandatory. I don't care that it takes 1min or 5min to set up the account for something that I've already registered for. To set up another account that I have to keep track of just so Acti/Bliz makes sure that I don't sell my account (I don't but that's beside the point).
I'd be laughing my ass off if Battlenet 2 falls apart and they end up dropping it and revert to the old system.
I don't care for BN2, I'm not saying it isn't good and I'm sure it'll add many services that people will like. But I don't see why people like me who don't care to have the extra (mostly social networking) have to create a account again on something that already works. Why can't they have both is beyond me? I mean would it hurt you the gamers if it were a optional choice?
10/14/09
The point that you may be missing is that this does not give you one more account to manage, as it is simply replacing one you've already got. And if you ever plan to buy any Blizzard games in the future, it actually reduces the number of different accounts for you to juggle, by consolidating them into a single one.
10/14/09
@pressstart: I never said I thought highly of myself. I'm just stating out that WE should have a CHOICE. If you haven't noticed that overall companies these days don't give us choices anymore.
@rageofthemage: After a good rest and coming back to read that made me LOL. Don't say that I don't have a sense of humor and I do understand both side of the coin but most have forgotten to look at it both sides and what it means to us as a consumer and as a gamer. People are just going along with Blizz just because most people think they can do no wrong (like STEAM).
I'm not afraid of change, but come one the new Battlenet2 only support 3 (4 if you count the new MMO they've been working on) games and that doesn't sound like it's worth it using a single account integration for. If they (Blizz) actually had more games and if somehow it uses not only Blizz games but Activision then I may see the point.
@To all the rest: I'm not trying to STOP Blizz at all but I was just speaking out my mind but apparently most of you readers take it way to personally. I know I have a choice to follow or not and most likely I wouldn't because it's not for me but I did not state that YOU and EVERYONE should do the same.
Here's my a point, let's say you have a WoW account and Diablo 3/Starcraft 2 also tied in (when released) and you have multiple computers. You bring one of your friend over and they want to try out D3 or SC2 since they're not into MMO. You let them try it and while you let them play, you wanted to play WoW, well since it's tied to your account only one of you can play those games. Yes I know that may not happen to a lot of you but for people who have siblings or significant others it will be a hindrance.
10/13/09
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To clarify, I approve of Kadin's comment.
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10/13/09
It's good to see that Blizzard is confident enough for a full fledged switcheroo to battle.net.
But would it be weird to see battle.net turn into steam? Include games other than ones developed by Blizzard?
10/13/09
10/13/09
Competition isn't a bad thing.
I was able to register all the cd keys for all the blizzard games I have and they let you download the game files from the website which was cool.
08/27/09
Hopefully the new system doesn't reek.
08/26/09
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