9th July 2010, 9:07 PM
Tying accounts to the serial number isn't too bad really, though to think about it even the console online services let you make as many extra accounts as you want (well, Wii doesn't, but then again Wii's online service sucks). As long as "guest logins" are allowed, it shouldn't be a big problem. I will miss the various chat rooms. Those were a nice social feature, that is, a REAL social feature, not "Facebook integration", whatever that means. Does my grandma really need to know my progress in Starcraft 2? The only people that will care are other Starcraft 2 players, and that can all be done IN Starcraft 2, or the Battle.net service in general. Of course it's all moot since I don't have a Facebook account anyway and will never get one with the privacy failings all over the news they're dealing with lately. If it tied into my google account? That might actually be interesting, but mainly because I could use GOOGLE'S cloud services to store all my custom maps, replays, and videos. Yeah, there's a lot of online service tie-in potential I do like, but a lot of what they're doing just... makes no sense at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)