Free StarCraft 2 Name Change Coming Ahead of Paid Name Changes
"In some cases, people chose character names that don't represent their usual multiplayer nicknames, as they were unaware of how the character names were being used," explains Blizzard. "It's important to us that everyone is represented by a name of their choosing in their multiplayer games, ladders, and on the forums and community site."
This will not, however reset ladder statistics. Additionally, Blizzard will eventually introduce paid character name changes like with World of Warcraft.
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TheEmissary
replyThis is something that should be free to begin considering all this amounts to is changing a database entry. I understand the move to transform gaming in to cloud/service based but not every game needs to be treated with the same brush. Paid name changes just smacks of greed and nothing else. Starcraft II Avatar != MMO character so don't treat it as such.
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They don't do it for greed. They do it so people have an identity. So you don't change it tons of times because you can't make up mind or for some other random reason unknown to the mass populace. I personally stick with the same name on PS3, Steam and previously, 360. When I had one. It makes sense for people to be known and be gone with the problems associated with anonymity.
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The problem with that is that character name in this case isn't your identify as battle.net 2.0 uses RealID which shows your real name. So the question remains why limit in anyway what people can name their avatars. The paid name changes will likely keep everything from your ladder to friend lists intact which like I mentioned already had access to your real identity. It would be hard in any case to simply have a alias log like steam uses or have a delaying mechanism to allow you to only do it once a day/week whatever.
Considering that some people change their character names in games that don't offer proper clan support to add clan tags. So do you expect these people stick with old clan tags when they move on to another.-
[fixed]It wouldn't be hard in any case to simply have a alias log like steam uses or have a delaying mechanism to allow you to only do it once a day/week whatever.
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So is it the Greed or the Control causing them to offer a free name change?
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not more than once anyway
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