Fucking bullshit that they want money to do name changes, this is a fucking RTS online, not an MMO.

Hopefully, they eventually get off their fat arses, off the pile of money, and implement a clan system where you can at least change your tag for free.

I'm not seeing how that'd make a difference here.

Anyway, I don't mind this. People still can't keep changing their names constantly for teh lulz, but it's at least an option. With the way the character ID system works, this could still be mildly annoying, though.

I just don't see why they are placing such an arbitrary restriction, on something that previously was very easy.

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/407874#blog

27 Terrans
16 Protoss
7 Zergs

in the top 50 (unless I miscounted), sadface.

Identifiers fail to serve their purpose if you can change them around all the time. Sure, you can add a "View aliases" function like in Steam, but things can get pretty confusing even then.

Plus, character names here are no longer just a display name, but a service-wide ID. That's obviously going to make things a lot less easy.


It would be nice to have race usage statistics to go along with that. It could simply be that there's loads more people playing Terran anyway (seeing how this first part is the Terran campaign, with a dash of Protoss thrown in the mix).

demuslim playin sc2? awesome, he was a talented wc3 player.

Inofficial global stats showed (http://sc2ranks.com/stats/all/1/all) that there's about 35% terran, 35% protoss, 20% zerg and the rest is random.

Yea and he's one of the big names as well, atm at least.

Luciferon is ex WC3 too, but then a lot of WC3 players are ex BW players, soo not really surprising they ended up in SC2.

And yeah, race balance isn't perfect yet. Most agree that Terran is probably the most dominant and Zerg is in need of some help, at least at the top levels. Dimaga, the top Zerg on that list recently announced he was planning to switch to Terran after Gamescon if changes weren't made. I think its a stunt to get Blizzards attention tho. Switching races so soon after release even if there is a imbalance is perhaps a bit hasty. After all, in BW's history there were times when there was a dominant race, say Terran would win 70% of the time against Zerg at the top level, but it would eventually shift from race to race without any intervention on Blizzards part. Not saying Zerg weak, I think they are, but Idra did win the King of the Beta...

Zerg is probably going to be the main race I play when I get the game. They were always my favourite in SC1.

Yeah the rest is sort of manageable (though the one where I have to destroy the Moebius cores is a bitch, gonna get Hercs first then just suicide 3 or 4 of those onto the last core filled to the brim with Medics and Marines. First 2 cores are easy) but the Train Robbery is a fucking nightmare, especially indeed those Marauder groups. How did you do that one?



Prepare to get assraped by Terran. MMM rapes most of the Zerg units, and Mechs (Thors/Tanks) just annihilate everything else since you need huge numbers of Roaches to deal with those.