@Zeratul199 @Ophenix1 It's a shame you have no sense of humor...
As for the pricing... It helps. Every one of my friends and every one of the people I game with have tried LoL. It is free, you can try it, you can access games easily and the scene is alive (though somewhat toxic) with a HUGE and lucrative pool of small and large tournaments for people to start with.
Blizzard needs to do something to bring new players into the game and an expansion won't do that. It might get some of the people who stopped playing back but not new players.
This is a known problem. If you want to read about it feel free to start here: http://kotaku.com/5954973/as-fans-say-starcraft-is-dying-blizzard-plans-some-big-changes
SC2 is not a fun game to start playing competitively. You need to pay 60$ for the base game, 80$ if you want the base + expansion and the way multiplayer works makes it not only hard to get into but also very hard to progress in.
This results in a diminishing player base. People are leaving the game (bored/busy/pissed-off-that-marines-kill-everything-in-the-game-cost-efficiently) but few new players are coming in. This means less viewers for tournaments, less prize money and eventually a dead pro-gaming scene.
With games like LoL and DotA2 out and free, with millions of players and even more viewers SC2 is slowly dying. There are several ways to solve this and F2P is one of them. I'm not saying it is the right way, or the only way, but it is ONE way that Blizzard could inject some interest in a slowly decaying game.
Another way would be to balance the damned thing for fun and not for statistics. "Oh, I'm Dusting Bowser! I can give Zerg the crappiest anti-air in the game and then buff the Toss air army to invinsibility! Look at me! I'll give Terran a unit that kills everything and only costs minerals while also giving them a free-mineral spell! Now I'll give them a unit that kills everything on the ground and make it cost only minerals! Look at me!" I hate that guy.
@strothers101 Of course it had to do with piracy concerns. But it also lead to the worst game launch in the history of gaming. It lead to people being locked out of their game whenever Blizz decided to shut the servers down and it lead to single player lag.
I don't care about their problems with piracy. These are THEIR problems, don't make them my problems by giving me an inferior experience because some people out there pirate.
@raahsnavj @Stiler Castle Crashers won't cost 60$. Don't buy it and save yourself the rage-posts that you will be posting in a few years when Diablo 4 comes out with micro-transactions and single computer licensing.
"But for now, this one's for the grinders who need only the promise of better loot to keep pushing forward." D3 sold over 10 million copies so I'm sure there are plenty of those.
Aliens is ABOUT women. It deals with motherhood, fear-there-of and how women react to the crisis it can evoke. Making an Aliens game that includes no women is like making an Alice in Wonderland with no children (looking at you Burton...)
Also, why are people in the comments so ignorant? Having a diverse array of characters in your games won't take your toys away, it will only make them more interesting.
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