do you think the upcomming blizzard games will be pirated alot?

Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.chrisrooR

Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.chrisrooR

Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 probably wont come out until 2010 sometime. Im convinced that at E3, Starcraft 2 will have a release date and Diablo 3 will reveal a new character class. Well i hope they release the entire class line up, or maybe a playable demo cuz im sure they are further along in development than they stated at BlizCon.prlyknitswtr

E3?

A huge showcase of new games.

[QUOTE="prlyknitswtr"]Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 probably wont come out until 2010 sometime. Im convinced that at E3, Starcraft 2 will have a release date and Diablo 3 will reveal a new character class. Well i hope they release the entire class line up, or maybe a playable demo cuz im sure they are further along in development than they stated at BlizCon.dragonmaster64

Diablo 3? most likely, maybe even the most downloaded game of tht year, because the main intrest is its singleplayer part, of course to many it's multiplayer is very important too, but not like sp.

Starcraft 2? it too will get downloaded alot but since most will want it for multiplayer I'm guessing it will sell really well.

oh yeah just as all there other games, and because cheapskates will refuse to buy all THREE starcraft games and actually be in the right..for once.aura_enchanted

Pirates would be foolish to pirate Blizzard's releases "to the extreme". The main drive for pirate's existence is the unhappiness over the direction certain devs are taking, so they pirate those games as a method of revenge (a clear motive).

Blizzard is one of the top firms still producing PC exclusives, leaving no reason for expansive pirating to occur. Pirates are not dumb (naaar!) they understand the gaming industry and what must be corrupted and what shouldn't. Blizzard's care and support for their games has created a love and bonding relationship between dev and player, and a pirate would be clinically insane to try and tick a developer off (especially one as large as Blizz) because that could bring about the extinction of PC gaming (leaving the pirates without a job unless they move onto consoles).

Games such as Spore deserve to get mass pirated because there clearly is no care put into it, since the game is either unfinished/simply not fun. EA Games and Ubisoft are fine examples of **** corporations deserving a pirate's peg leg up their fat arses. Blizzard have earned huge respect from all in the gaming industry as a whole and pirates understand that.

Therefore piracy for all future blizzard release will be low.

Pirates would be foolish to pirate Blizzard's releases "to the extreme". The main drive for pirate's existence is the unhappiness over the direction certain devs are taking, so they pirate those games as a method of revenge (a clear motive).

Blizzard is one of the top firms still producing PC exclusives, leaving no reason for expansive pirating to occur. Pirates are not dumb (naaar!) they understand the gaming industry and what must be corrupted and what shouldn't. Blizzard's care and support for their games has created a love and bonding relationship between dev and player, and a pirate would be clinically insane to try and tick a developer off (especially one as large as Blizz) because that could bring about the extinction of PC gaming (leaving the pirates without a job unless they move onto consoles).

Games such as Spore deserve to get mass pirated because there clearly is no care put into it, since the game is either unfinished/simply not fun. EA Games and Ubisoft are fine examples of **** corporations deserving a pirate's peg leg up their fat arses. Blizzard have earned huge respect from all in the gaming industry as a whole and pirates understand that.

Therefore piracy for all future blizzard release will be low.

ofcourse they will, I don't see a reason why they shouldn't be

it's just that they will also sell so much that blizzard won't care

However, none legit copies (ie: not a valid cd key) make it impossible to get on Battle.net so you can't enjoy the best parts of Diablo or Starcraft, which is the multiplayer. That, alone will encourage people to pay for the real deal.Xavier_12

I really hope not, if they were pirated to the extreme then that would be a serious blow to PC gaming.shert

[QUOTE="chrisrooR"]Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.Entityshadow

I think you're confused because the point of WC3 and SC2 is to play online against other players which requires a valid cd key...

you see battle.net (as rich and powerful as its master blizzard is) has been broken several times. in the span of an hour my older brother burned diablo 2 mere months after release and that copy still works, as he did with starcraft, and warcraft 2, and diablo. all of them connect to b.net just fine. moving from burn to torrent isnt very hard. so in truth battle.net is a broken system blizzard real focus is on preventing its MMO cashcow from having the same fate. i image starcraft 2 and diablo 3 will probably be ignored so long as there turning roughly 333 million a month in monthly fees (excluding life packs and game sales) from that 1 game alone. within a few weeks of release i imagine diablo 3 and starcraft 2 will be the talk of torrenters the world over both viral and legit. SO as you can see blizzard will make 2 mediocre games to saiate there non WoW addict cult followers until the WoW either falls under or become like everquest and runescape, gone but not forgotten. and they wont really care if they get torrented.aura_enchanted

I really hope not, if they were pirated to the extreme then that would be a serious blow to PC gaming.shert

[QUOTE="Entityshadow"][QUOTE="chrisrooR"]Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.Xiloa

I think you're confused because the point of WC3 and SC2 is to play online against other players which requires a valid cd key...

[QUOTE="Entityshadow"][QUOTE="chrisrooR"]Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.Xiloa

I think you're confused because the point of WC3 and SC2 is to play online against other players which requires a valid cd key...

Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.chrisrooR

Most meaning one of them. lol. WoW is the only one you have to pay to play online. Starcraft and Diablo II are both still free and fun to play online to this day, and Diablo III and Starcraft II will be too, or it will piss off a LOT of hardcore fans.

You can't play online easily without a legit CD key! :O Your CD key is tied to your Bnet account!

Still... of course they'll be pirated alot :D (or at least they'll try really hard to). I hate pirates :(. I love the satisfaction of paying for the game and then owning the copy on my shelf. :)

Psyched for D3 and SC2 :O

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[QUOTE="Entityshadow"] Lol what? Only ONE game did that ONE. That was WoW. Diablo II free online play Starcraft free online play Warcraft III free online play All of these games have Single-Player/Campaign mode. You must be confused.Entityshadow

I think you're confused because the point of WC3 and SC2 is to play online against other players which requires a valid cd key...

Obviously the online play is free but you need to PAY for the game key to go online that's all I meant

Nope. Most blizzard games are online and require a monthly fee or an encrypted account; there's no possible way around this unless people play on crappy "private" servers.chrisrooR

wow.... really? How many drugs are you taking? The games do have single-player. Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo... Yes they have online but so do games like Crysis, but that still gets pirated. However the online portion of games like Warcraft and Starcraft are large parts of the game that people WANT to play. That is primarily because of the custom games you can make (without it you would still have the pros playing, but there aren't a ton of those).

As long as Blizzard doesn't put on anything like securom then they should be fine. I mean with Starcraft they gave out of a cd-key to use for lan purposes. I can't see them being super strict now, unless Activision makes them put on some protection stuff.

[QUOTE="aura_enchanted"]you see battle.net (as rich and powerful as its master blizzard is) has been broken several times. in the span of an hour my older brother burned diablo 2 mere months after release and that copy still works, as he did with starcraft, and warcraft 2, and diablo. all of them connect to b.net just fine. moving from burn to torrent isnt very hard. so in truth battle.net is a broken system blizzard real focus is on preventing its MMO cashcow from having the same fate. i image starcraft 2 and diablo 3 will probably be ignored so long as there turning roughly 333 million a month in monthly fees (excluding life packs and game sales) from that 1 game alone. within a few weeks of release i imagine diablo 3 and starcraft 2 will be the talk of torrenters the world over both viral and legit. SO as you can see blizzard will make 2 mediocre games to saiate there non WoW addict cult followers until the WoW either falls under or become like everquest and runescape, gone but not forgotten. and they wont really care if they get torrented._rpg_FAN

2 things

a) not all of there game son battlenet have cd keys (warcraft 2 diablo 1 etc.)

b) keygens are stupid easy to locate via torrents or download sites, and even if u have a legit key (like i do) it will still not always connect to battlenet (i tried to burn diablo 2 LoD once and even with a legit key i could not run the game online except via lan).