18th February 2005, 3:10 PM
Yeah, that's about what I meant, but yeah interface updates are nice.
So what do you think about linking battle.net accounts across all battle.net games? I don't mean anything special like a single ladder for all games, that would be silly. I'm just saying it would be nice to have one account and one password that signs you in for all of it and lets people see two things about you, a, how good you are in other Blizzard games, and b, if you are online on another blizzard game (for example if you are on their friend's list, they could see in Starcraft that you are currently playing Warcraft 3). A little further than that, people could talk to their friends via a direct channel despite what game they are on, so you could then actually invite someone to play Starcraft while they are playing Warcraft 3. The only status beyond what game they are playing would be "in chat room" or "in game". I think that would be nice. I know I like that in XBox Live for example.
If they won't consider an auto-heal option for WC2, maybe just increase the amount of HP the heal move restores? If they won't consider that, I wonder if Blizzard considers the two sides balanced, or they just don't want to waste time and resources on that game?
So what do you think about linking battle.net accounts across all battle.net games? I don't mean anything special like a single ladder for all games, that would be silly. I'm just saying it would be nice to have one account and one password that signs you in for all of it and lets people see two things about you, a, how good you are in other Blizzard games, and b, if you are online on another blizzard game (for example if you are on their friend's list, they could see in Starcraft that you are currently playing Warcraft 3). A little further than that, people could talk to their friends via a direct channel despite what game they are on, so you could then actually invite someone to play Starcraft while they are playing Warcraft 3. The only status beyond what game they are playing would be "in chat room" or "in game". I think that would be nice. I know I like that in XBox Live for example.
If they won't consider an auto-heal option for WC2, maybe just increase the amount of HP the heal move restores? If they won't consider that, I wonder if Blizzard considers the two sides balanced, or they just don't want to waste time and resources on that game?
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