Possibility of Cross Realm play discussed

[spychi]

They aren't stand alone. They are expansions just as Brood War was an expansion to the original Starcraft. That being said, you will need Wings of Liberty to play Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void after that.

As for region lock, I'm sure there's plenty of games that have region lock.

I heard many claims on what it is and I am unsure which is the right one, even Blizzard's statement isn't clear enough

[Norfindel]

Playing on different realms is a DLC that I can see legit demand for and could be useful to those who seek to use it. This would be different than cross realm communication, which I feel should be free and would be VERY grateful if it turns out that both are free.

I see downloadable content, as things like more SP campaigns (for example: instead of two expansions, they could be downloadable content). But locking inter-gateway gameplay and unlocking it for money, is just that: locking some of the game capability, segmenting online gameplay, and allow it if the player is willing to pay extra. That sucks, and i see it as a bad action on the part of the developer. And what i see as bad, i wouldn't pay for.
If it continues like this, Blizzard could shoot itself on the foot. Segmenting online gameplay is bad enough as to try to avoid it at all costs.

[Crazy_Jonny]

I don't honestly believe Blizzard expects you to pay another 60 dollars just to play all your friends. They expect you to wait for the patch. Yeah, patch.

This thing will be free or I'll eat my shorts.

I heard many claims on what it is and I am unsure which is the right one, even Blizzard's statement isn't clear enough

http://us.starcraft2.com/faq.xml#trilogy

[Kimera757]

Almost two years after the trilogy announcement. If someone is having trouble understanding this, they're not okay. Maybe they need help.

[Blackdogkt]

Gamers don't have rights or are entitled to anything

...unless they are paying customers that is. Isn't it ironic really, how most of the time a person who bought the game has no bargaining power left ("who cares, we got his money" line of thought) while the ones who hold back their purchase and at the same time maintaining a loud presence on related forums effect some kind of change? (not always, they also fail sometimes, but more on this later on)

That's because a lot of people think customers have no rights, hence they don't even need to entice the potential customers, hence the state PC gaming is at today...microtransactions, overpriced DLC, direct console ports to mask the loss of functionality (because how will they sell overpriced map packs if they give you a map editor? they just scrap the editor and blame it on the game being a console port). And in the end, through repetition people get tired and settle on a "fanboy" vs "hater" rhetoric that just keeps things stagnant and doesn't improve anything.

Sure, a customer uproar doesn't happen everytime and even if it does it might not achieve its goals, but when it fails to is because the customers think that they have no rights. If you give away your consumer rights you got nobody to blame but yourself. Either that, or they are just too weak to resist playing that game for a few months in order to put a dent in its sales.

I'm not talking about outright boycotting or pirating games out of spite against the publisher. I'm just saying that if more people had the moral stamina to say "i will not buy this game until X amount of time has passed or feature Z is patched into it, whichever happens first" when they didn't agree with the direction said game was taking, then the industry would be forced to listen to the fans next time around or drop the prices to entice more sales on their current release, or maybe both.

As for me, i absolutely don't care at all about cross-region play, i would probably never use it. I just don't like the idea of segmenting previous default functionality into smaller DLC-marketable pieces just to milk a franchise dry. Sure, they need to make money and they are entitled to getting paid for their hard work. They just need to be reasonable about it too or lose customers, just like any other business.

Gifted said it nicely a few posts back, just because it might be cheap doesn't mean one shouldn't prefer it to be free like it used to be up till now.

The thing is, most of these discussions stem from a lack of communication and this has been identified by the community, blizz themselves, pretty much everyone. If there was some concrete info about these things there would also be much less bickering. As it stands now, uncertainty makes people rally around their banners and prepare for forum war in the hope that they'll get the changes they are asking for.

It would be much simpler if Bliz agreed to come forward and say: "This and this will be free and done in approximately so many months, this and this will be payware, probably cost this much and done in probably this many months. Just take it with a grain of salt as information could be subject to change in case we can't make a deadline or lack funds".

[Dragoonx]

I heard many claims on what it is and I am unsure which is the right one, even Blizzard's statement isn't clear enough

It's been stated many times in just about any recent news simply mentioning it. It was further enforced at last years Blizzcon. The whole trilogy deal shouldn't even be an argument anymore bro.

[GnaReffotsirk]

The phrase, "those interested" immediately triggered the sound, Ka-ching!

[spychi]

It's been stated many times in just about any recent news simply mentioning it. It was further enforced at last years Blizzcon. The whole trilogy deal shouldn't even be an argument anymore bro.

yes, it isn't, but I was just wondering about something very related to the possible charge or fee for cross-realm play

http://blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=28549\
guys nailed it here very well, don't mind Neo he is just a fanboy


the lag reason is a joke, I play DoW 2, mostly I play with guys from either Europe or USA and I don't see any problem with the lag and I don't play normal games alot, it's mostly Last Stand mode which is really intense in terms of units and effects
I play both L4D games with people across the US and the lag isn't an issue, I have over 300ping and the game is very very playable
so sorry Blizzard again your reasoning in not adding features with the release is (as many other people said) BULLSHIT

[Dragoonx]

yes, it isn't, but I was just wondering about something very related to the possible charge or fee for cross-realm play

http://blizzforums.com/showthread.php?t=28549\
guys nailed it here very well, don't mind Neo he is just a fanboy


the lag reason is a joke, I play DoW 2, mostly I play with guys from either Europe or USA and I don't see any problem with the lag and I don't play normal games alot, it's mostly Last Stand mode which is really intense in terms of units and effects
I play both L4D games with people across the US and the lag isn't an issue, I have over 300ping and the game is very very playable
so sorry Blizzard again your reasoning in not adding features with the release is (as many other people said) BULLSHIT

Neo nailed it on the head from what it looked like. He replied with a answer saying what we know right now. Everyone in that thread is doing something called speculation.

[spychi]

Neo nailed it on the head from what it looked like. He replied with a answer saying what we know right now. Everyone in that thread is doing something called speculation.

speculation that is becoming (sadly) the truth
only thing so far work out in some way are the chat channels
Neo is a fanboy, everyone else at BF thinks for their wallet but not him