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A Guide To Battle.Net And StarCraft II Online

Before you starting fighting armies, learn about the new features of Battle.Net.

Jul. 26 2010

Posted by: Matt

94 Comments

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AAAHHHHH STARCRAFT

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I'm gonna go buy StarCraft 1!
 
Thanks crappy laptop!

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Sorry for pointing this out, but... "An"

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an guide? shouldn't it be a guide.  

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jesus this video just uploaded and already 3 comments?

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halla cool

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What made them think that the robot lady voiceover was a good idea?

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An Game? 
 
I still don't believe this game is out.

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the hell am i gonna do till midnight!!?

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BATTLECRUISER OPERATIONAL

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An? 
Really Giantbomb? 
A spelling mistake in the title of a video? 

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I'm going to play the hell out of custom games.

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Oh Kessler, you and your typos. Whatta yah liiiiiike?

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An Game? 
Is it an inside joke?

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An Guide?
 
Matt, you are fired AGAIN!

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Argh I WANT TO PLAY NOW!  So hyped.. too bad I'll have to wait till after work tomorrow to play, growing up and waiting for Blizzard games sucks.

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dammit I need a new computer

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@Dude_What: Because she makes straight men's ears orgasm.
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Graphs! just what I wanted.

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EVERYBODY POINT OUT THE TYPO QUICK!

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I thought 'an guide' was written in on purpose.  People have been known to do that, sometimes, y'know.  It makes stuff sound a bit more grand.

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So it's basically Steam but with RealID, is what I'm hearing.

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Oh Kessler...

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Damnit!! My collectors edition pre-order arrives at the store tomorrow! Nest time I am ordering online!

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An guide?

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Still need to fix "Before you starting", Kessler!

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I didn't have much experience with the old battle.net, but this new one seems to be shaping up nicely.

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

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Sounds like Liara from Mass Effect.

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She didn't say anything about battle.net costing anything, I thought with sc2 they would implement a subscription based service.. but maybe they scratched that(good ideea who would pay for it brad would). Anyway this video showed nothing new. Still I want to play this so bad, stupid old computer.

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They stole the Quick Looks' cut-via-fade-to-white. I hope GB gets royalties.

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before you starting fighting armies? shouldn't it be before you start fighting armies.

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Thank you for flying with Air Canada. Please return your seat backs and tray tables to the upright position.

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You know, I'm not even interested in Starcraft or this video. I just luv pointing out typos. 

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AND STARCRAFT 2 MANIA IS IN FULL FORCE!

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@Pop: The subscription based model was only being proposed for some areas of the world that are more financially constrained, it's not a model they are using in most places.  You buy SC2 and you get b.net, same as other Blizz games (Wow excluded of course)
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@Olivaw said:
"So it's basically Steam but with RealID, is what I'm hearing. "

Seams like it, but who wants to have their actual name as their tag? not to mention those people who sign on Via facebook. Just feel like their can be out of game harrassing.  
 
i can also see bot accounts on there aswell advertising stuff. I dunno.
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@zityz:  
It's only your tag for the people you add via RealID, you can still use your Starcraft 2 handle to add people if you prefer them to not know your name.  Unless they are changing it from beta.
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I definitely don't care for the cross-game support. I want to leave my annoying World of Warcraft friends in Azeroth, thanks.

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All the hype is making me sad. Wish I liked RTS games. Damn my tastes.

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@HS21: .......Or the Terran robot lady from Starcraft 1.
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Sexy, sexy voice.

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BNET 2.0 sucks balls

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Looks like a worse version of what Steam has already done to be honest. Steam not only tracks across all valve games but also all games in the Steam store AND you can add non steam games.

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This voice doesn't work for videos like this... awful!!!

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7 hours!!!! Oh man...

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Welcome to Starcraft II. Enjoy having options more primitive and limited than those in Starcraft.

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God, Blizzard is just so...

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"...across all Battlenet game like Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft" 
 
And all the other hundreds of games that are using Battle.net 
 
And its almost like someone who worked on Xbox Live made Battle.net 2.0... wait a minute....

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Guessing Giantbomb & the forums will be quite quietly quiet for a while, as I bite at SC1 & other RTS games it'll be interesting to see the crazy from a neutral perspective with the aboutdamntime release of SC2. Now if they'd finally put out Diablo3 as well.