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11/20/09
Is that Raynor?
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What do you mean, "this one?" It's a Blizzard game, isn't it?
11/19/09
#speakup
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I guess I've just had other games to satisfy me, but I was a Blizzard fanatic back in the day.
11/19/09
"Sir, they're called 'Zerg'"
"Who cares dammit! They're dirty!"
"Uhm, okay, sir. Actually, though, our biggest concern right now are the Protoss."
"Proto-Ass? Are you talking about Jane Fonda? I'm not sure if she was the first, but you're right, that was one fine ass."
"Nevermind, sir, we'll handle it."
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08/22/09
online all the time FTL
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08/21/09
I can guarantee you that Blizzard will want some commission out of each sale, which is extremely sleazy if that is the case. Nothing like making money from someone else's work, eh?
08/21/09
"This is horrible"?
Seriously?
Blizzard gives great modders a chance to produce great content and get some payment out of it... instead of producing great content and getting absolutely nothing which is what happens in most cases.
This has the potential to be an awesome way for modders to earn a little extra cash for all the work and love they put into the game. And OF COURSE blizzard is going to get part of the money, they are providing the game and the service.
If you have a good counter-argument, please reply.
08/21/09
As someone who's pouring an extreme amount of effort into becoming a game developer, and also someone who spent some serious time on my own original SC maps this sounds really cool.
To have the ability to make a bit of cash off of my creations thrills me, but I only worry about just how big of a chunk blizz is going to be taking out.
Yeah it's their game and their service, but there's not much point to charging money for your map if you don't end up getting much.
I'd rather have people enjoying and getting nothing but that satisfaction than say charging them 2 bucks for it so that I make 9 cents.
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I am very impressed by the amount of features they are adding into the service. Particularly the stuff regarding the modding community. The idea that it might be possible for the best mods for the game to be hosted and downloaded on and from Battle.net itself is great. I say might, because reading through this it doesn't seem to make explicit mention to much more besides maps.
It seems like a great way to foster community growth for their games, which adds greatly to the value of the games on the service, and at the same time combat game piracy.
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08/22/09
This is a horrible approach. Removing LAN is petty and pointless. Mandatory Battle.Net is a transparent cashgrab. It will not reduce piracy. This sort of thing never reduces piracy. Spore is a good example of just how massively this behavior FAILS to reduce piracy, ALWAYS.
Starcraft was the last RTS I played for longer than a month. Turns out I STILL play it occasionally, spawning copies onto a couple machines on a LAN. I haven't played on Battle.Net for the better part of a decade, though.
I was excited about this game. I'm sure it will be fun and do very well at retail. But I will probably not buy this one, or at least wait until the crackers and pirates release a fixed EXE that lets me play the game like a customer instead of a presumed criminal.
08/22/09
Ideally I agree, forcing gamers to use the game online instead of making it optional is not ideal for anyone, however I completely see why they want to do it this way, and I am happy that they have made so many features available on Battle.net so that using the game exclusively online, at least for multiplayer, is rewarding and enjoyable due to all the extra features they are adding, allowing ease of modding, and fostering community growth.
I do think that the content and features they are making available online are so substantial that people who pirate the game will be missing a lot of the game.
Realistically, it is not going to be very often that people are going to be playing the game in a location without Internet, so I doubt it will much of an inconvenience to have much of the game require online login to play for anyone besides people who pirate the game. Entirely ideal? No. A game crippling problem however? No.
08/21/09
I give up. The activision merger was bad news for the common man, but good news for a few men's bank accounts. At least somebody is happy. Most likely Bobby "Baggins" Kotick.
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