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This post has been edited by rontol: Sep 26 2012, 03:03 AM

all the people who buy the game will go crazy

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dont get it. the only reason ppl buy SC is because of MP. if they make it free, will anyone still buy SC?

nope, i'll rather wait till all its expansion MP bcome F2P.

that will never happen, eventually you will have the urge to buy game, coz is a international game now.

nah, dun think it will happen to me. i have yet to play MP for once since i get it 1 yr 8 mth ago

i think free to play multiplayer is for dota and custom games. the ladder? pay for it

It would be good if sc2 is free! More people play and probably sc2 scene in Malaysia could change

I'd rather pay to maintain the quality of the game and doing a one-off purchase will most definitely be worth it in the long run. Think of it like this, if they make it free to play, most probably maps will require people to pay to play on it and whatnot.. And if they do some sort of subscription based game, I'll boycott all Blizzard games permanently..

agree

Yuvster makes a fine point.

The best way for Blizzard to get continuous revenue is to charge for name changes. They are already doing it for WoW so they should have little problem integrating it into SC2.

they already have world of warcraft. feel free to boycott all blizzard games

if this happens i hope blizz will give some special privileges to the people who bought the game

I meant if they did that to SC2.. Probably should've phrased that differently.. LAWL

agreed! SC2 is not like other games such as TF2 which offers perks. if they did offer perks, that wud destroy d balance of d game which they have been trying to perfect all diz while. however, on d other hand, just look at d number of people playing DotA in ccs. crazy. im preeeetty sure d SC2 will blow out of proportion, which is good for us, but not necessarily for Blizzards' wallets...=p

finger crossed that Blizz did not screw up SC2 with the f2p policy

imagine if they give those who bought the game 1 extra scv/probe/drone at the start of a melee game

haha
that is a bad idea

This is exactly why Blizzard will never make SC2 multiplayer free to play. They've spent the better part of the last 2 years (since WoL's release) to balance the game, and F2P will just mess everything up. In fact, don't bother calling it "free to play". The more appropriate term is "pay to win".

Just think about why Blizzard is having difficulty integrating PvP into Diablo 3. RMAH, that's why. People who have money to buy stuff gain an unfair advantage over those who do not pay for anything.

On the other side of the coin, there may be possible advantages:
- more people will try to pick up the game, because there's no cost to do so
- (ok, I spent over 10 minutes just thinking of another possible advantage, but I just could not think of any, simply because Blizzard and the SC2 community does not gain from making SC2 free to play)

More people picking up the game may actually be detrimental to the community: More trolls and more smurfs.

The "free to play/pay to win" system will not make the game better. Blizzard will keep everything as is. They take 60USD from our pockets for WoL, another 40USD for HotS, and possibly another 40USD for LotV. Do you think trolls will spend 140USD for another SC2 account just to troll the ladder?

If Blizzard really wants to monetize SC2, then allow us to pay 5USD for a name change, similar to what they do with WoW.

If you can't afford the game, it's not Blizzard's fault. Let's put it another way: You want to play in a band? Buy your own guitar.

SC2 is an elitist's game. Blizzard wants to keep it that way. So do I.