Comment on Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
If it’s Diablo 2/3, Warcraft 1/2/3 or Starcraft 1/2 you can get those through other means. If it’s World of Warcraft there are private servers. Only Overwatch and Diablo 4 would strictly need to use battlenet.
Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Starcraft II would be the game I’d play.
I don’t think a […] game would work since if you want to play something in addition to just the campaigns…
MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Yeah, you’re gonna have to go with battlenet for that for mods or pvp. At least it’s an actual good game that Blizzard made and they haven’t ruined it!
I have a complete boycott on all things Blizzard too but I wouldn’t feel bad about playing SC2. I would feel bad for playing WoW, D4 or Overwatch as those have many scummy practices and I’d feel like I was supporting them.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I know the feeling; I quit playing SC2 when Blizz decided they didn’t care about it anymore. Recently I felt nostalgic and played a few games. It was fun, but it’s obvious Blizz still don’t care about the game (at least not enough to fix the ladder bugs).
They’re not gonna profit from you playing it. Just go and have fun while the servers are still online.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Being a body in the online matchmaking pool adds value to the next player who has a greater incentive to give Blizzard more money because they played with you. Just logging in to play the game helps Blizzard, not to mention the positive word of mouth you spread afterward. That said, OP clearly has an itch to play this game that isn’t going to go away. There are games I won’t touch because they do things that offend me, and I’m not tempted to play them when there’s so much else out there. StarCraft II is one of them, even though it had been one of my favorite games in the past and there’s nothing else quite like it, for what that’s worth.
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I think you’re right in principle, but I don’t think it really makes a difference in this case. Nobody who isn’t already playing SC2 is going to play it now, and there’s no way to spend money on the game if you’re only playing multiplayer (and/or you already bought the expansions).
Also, the ladder bug is really stupid: my MMR/skill level is Diamond but I got placed in Silver, and the unequal games got tiresome after a while. (You can only do so many Thor rushes in a row :P ) So I don’t think anyone who returns to scratch the itch will stay around for long.