Jason could really use some help upgrading their Zerglings in StarCraft 2!<p>Jason noticed their Zerglings are a bit on the puny side because they haven't been upgraded yet...<p>14 hours ago via StarCraft 2 | Comment | Like | Upgrade their Zerglings
This is quite unexpected. I honestly did not think Facebook would move beyond casual gaming.<p>But videogames are often about escapism: for example, would you really want your real-life profile associated with your MMO account?
I wonder how many people will appreciate this. For me, it's a turnoff and kind of disconcerting. I'm not one of those rabidly anti-Facebook people, but as a gamer, I just really don't like the idea of my games being tied into Facebook. I suspect my feelings might not be that unique.
It's not clear what level of integration we're talking about here. The article claims "tell your Facebook friends when you’re playing the game and what your doing in it.", but the actual messages from Blizzard make it sound like the implementation is limited to linking your FB friends to their battle.net accounts.<p>I'm not a fan of publishing Starcraft notifications to my Facebook feed, but that is opt-in. Being able to find out which of my Facebook friends also have battle.net accounts seems like an incredible feature. It sounds identical to the awesome Xbox Live implementation where I ended up having a ton of friends with Xbox accounts that I would have never discovered otherwise. Really looking forward to this.
As long as it isn't required in any way for any features (other than facebook things) I am actually okay with blizzard doing this, and if all ends up right it will be a flop and won't even matter in the long run.<p>But as I haven't ever had a facebook account I wouldn't be very happy if it was required for something like online play or in game friends.
Interesting. This seems to be toying around with a similar idea that services like Raptr.com offer with this line:
"will include the ability to tell your Facebook friends when you’re playing the game"<p>Does that mean we'll see more games doing this and Facebook becoming basically the defacto for everything you're doing online? Frightening :)
In the future facebook will be integrated with everything.
Harshpotatoes just zergling rushed a newb.<p>Harshpotatoes just refinanced his home.<p>Harshpotatoes is browsing milfhunter.<p>What's on your mind?<p>On a side note. Will voyeurism still be illegal in the future if everything is public?
I think as long as you have an anonymous feature it will be fine. I hope this means that SC 2 is using javascript in place of lua for its front end scripting which could mean all sorts of incredible add-ons. Lua is fine, but javascript just has a broader base.