Comments on: Summarizing October’s Monthly Discussion: Battle.net

By: WheatThins

WheatThins — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:47:04 +0000

Blizzard makes enough money i dont think they should make us pay to play Starcraft 2 considering it took them 11 years just to finally release the game (or come close to release the game)

By: Starcraft 2 fan

Starcraft 2 fan — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:33:02 +0000

ahh the good old days… i remember when we had to run KALIs just to play warcraft II online.

By: zEro

zEro — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:06:35 +0000

Good suggestions.

Please add, status options. Away, available, in-game, etc. which are changeable by the user, Some more like, waiting for a 2v2, 1v1, custom map, dota, etc.

The choice of eliminating one race is a good suggestion. The way they should do it is by having two selection menus for Race 1 and Race 2, random in either would mean the other gets disabled and no race is eliminated. There would be no need for another Race menu for 3 races. But what algorithm would they use for randomly selecting either of the race?

Tabbed browsing is an amazing feature that could be exploited very well; like switching between channels, game tab, clan page/channel etc.

GG Blizzard!

By: keikun17

keikun17 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:42:51 +0000

october’s starcraft monthly discussion in 4 words :
“no love for zergs”

By: morpheus

morpheus — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:07:54 +0000

Battle.net is great, used it for many years playing
SC and SCBW, but there are new platforms
coming out that kick it’s ass. check out Gosu, i put
the link in my name. it is battle.net + you can
get money for being good.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:15:03 +0000

Ged makes same great suggestions. I second all of the ones he said. Being able to watch the replay after a game is finished that you were eliminated from would be good. However, I DON’T think eliminated players should be able to remain as observers due do the likely abuse.

By: Eros

Eros — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:35:16 +0000

rikas

Said it all.

By: rikas

rikas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:10:20 +0000

I won’t pay for battle.net!!!!

If I have to then I will only play LAN games! :S

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:44:03 +0000

While I’m at it, here is my list of wishes for bnet (in addition to the above list). I know I’m late but well, could anybody transmit this to whoever is interested?:

- an option to set a default channel that would be joined automatically.
- the possibility to continue chatting while the game loads.
- the possibility to watch the replay of the game you just played (“or create a relay game”) right after a game is ended (from the “stats screen”).
- the ability to stay in a game *as an observer* when you are eliminated (even if shutting down the communication with your former teammates that might open the door for cheating via communication through other voip service than the one Bnet will host).

and/or

- replays for all games stored temporarily (depending on your ranking) on battle.net (you’d have to have a way to get back to your replays — probably a link in your profile). The thing is that when I get eliminated early in a FFA game, I always wished I could have the *complete* replay for the game, to know who finally won. Replays for every player would be kept for something like 12h, and forever (or close to it) for top players.

By: Ged

Ged — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:22:56 +0000

About the fee poll. I’d be perfectly fine with an annual fee of about $15-$20, with the first year cost included in the box price/given for free. I know this is similar to the 2$ monthly fee, though paying 2$ per month doesn’t seem very practical/efficient. That way, the hardcore fans can support blizzard but others don’t have to pay beyond the initial box price.