From me to Blizz:
I know Blizzard is aware of the firestorm brewing on all SC2 forums concerning usernames. I know that this ticket might go into the pile after you’ve read the first sentence and picked out “username,” but please allow me to change mine.
I signed up almost immediately after SC2 was released, when there was no warning that the name I entered would be permanent, and used my real name. Something I would rather not have done. I don’t mind if you have to wipe my account, and if having my username changed is not possible, then I would like to know if a refund is possible. I’d rather return and repurchase than continue on with no foreseeable remedy.
And if none of the above is possible, I would like to report my username as offensive and against Battle.net’s naming policy, and would like to receive an e-mail that “will be sent to the account’s registered E-mail address with instructions on how to change his/her temporary name to one of their choice.” -Blizzard’s Naming Policy
Response from Blizz:
Greetings!
Thank you for contacting us, Kenji! I’d be glad to help as best I can in this situation with your StarCraft II character name. If you have encountered a mistake with your character’s name in StarCraft II, we may be able to assist with a change in character name. However, this investigation DOES NOT GUARANTEE that your character’s name will be changed.
Please submit the following information from the email address registered to the Battle.net account in question:
1. Battle.net Account Name.
2. First and Last Name.
3. Secret Question Answer for the Battle.net Account.
4. CURRENT StarCraft II Character Name.
5. CURRENT StarCraft II Character Code.
6. DESIRED StarCraft II Character Name.
After we have received this information, we will follow up with an additional email on any updates. Please be aware that we will be happy to investigate this matter for you. Again, this investigation does not guarantee that your character’s name will be changed.
Two weeks later…
Greetings,
Battle.net Account Name: k.aimoto@gmail.com
The next time you log in you will be prompted to choose a new name. Please keep in mind that your profile name is subject to our naming policies (link) and that the name will be permanent. This is a onetime service and that future requests will most likely be denied.
Thank you very much for contacting us!
Regards,
Andre V.
Game Master Soracian
Customer Services
Blizzard Entertainment
www.blizzard.com/support
So it’s not an instant process, but it’s definitely doable. All that’s left is for me to think of a name I’d be happy with for the rest of my SC2 life…
i’ve recently been without a decent computer game, so i reinstalled my copy of “WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne.” (i’d like to state for the record that doing so would have been impossible had Blizzard enforced an utterly useless DRM like EA has.)
unfortunately, my HP Pavilion dv2000 series utilizes an NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M card, which, i think, gives the game problems running in a widescreen environment. the problem was that there was a delay between my mouse and the game, causing the mouse to feel slow and difficult to control. i searched for solutions via the net and found a few suggestions:
1. open up 3D settings on the NVidia control panel, open WarCraft III on the programs tab, and force off the Vertical Sync option.
2. set your desktop to a lower resolution
3. create a shortcut, and in the target field, attach “-opengl” to the field (without the quotes.)
option number three is the only option i found to actually work. doing so will lower the video quality of the game, but at least you’ll be able to play again. and on another note, i had problems on a previous laptop where the game would randomly crash mid-game. using the -opengl tag in the target field also fixed that problem as well.
and to close, here are some other things i discovered while searching for a fix. how to run the game in window mode, and how to set the game to widescreen resolutions.
running in widescreen
run regedit and find: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Warcraft III\Video
(make sure to edit as a decimal values!)
modify resheight to the desired value
modify reswidth to the desired value
running in windowed mode
create a shortcut another shortcut of the program.
open up the properties, find the target field, and attach “-window” so that it looks something like this:
“C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Frozen Throne.exe” -window
***update***
Blizzard has announced that whether each game will be full-priced products has yet to even be discussed, and from what i just found out, and am most unhappy about, is that you’ll need to purchase and install the the other campaigns in order to unlock newer units—even in multiplayer. so i guess it IS going to be a gun to the head saying you’ll need to buy all three.
however, from the looks of it, and gathering from what interviews with Blizzard spokesmen have said, each game will be an expansion on the previous spaced by at least a year. it’s completely possible that you could be paying $20 for a full-blown expansion.
the way i see it—now that this newer news has been released—is that the developers simply developed too much, and jumped the gun announcing one game and its expansions as one unit.
“Terrans: Wings of Liberty” will be the first of SC-II to be released. you’ll have access to the same units everyone else online will, but a year or so later, “Zerg: Heart of the Swarm” will have newer additions that will require you to purchase that game, and then “Protoss: Legacy of the Void” will come a year or so after that.
» StarCraft II split into three games!
Blizzard developers have announced that the SC-II project is so massive that they’ve decided to split the single-player campaign into three different games—one for Protoss, one for Zerg, and one for Terran. in the original Starcraft, as i’m sure you all remember, you had 30 missions that would take you through all three races, but with StarCraft II developers realized that there was just so much content that they felt splitting the game into three 36-mission-long campaigns was their best option. it was either that or “drastically scaling back the single-player portion of the game.”
what’s funny is despite the fact that StarCraft II is actually three times longer than the original StarCraft campaign—and more—those rabid know-nothing gamers are already quick to attack Blizzard for the decision. i guess they don’t like that they’ll have to buy each part what’s essentially a trilogy, rather than the three-games-in-one that they were hoping for.
am i happy that i’ll have to pay for three games in order to complete all the SC-II campaigns? no, but i’m understanding of the situation, and it’s not like they’re implementing spore-like DRM.
also, might i add that no one is pointing a gun to these people’s heads and saying, “YOU MUST COMPLETE EACH CAMPAIGN.” god knows that most people will end up downloading whichever copies they don’t own anyway.
