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StarCraft II to lead the charge.

Blizzard has announced that online platform Battle.net will integrate with enormous social networking site Facebook.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will spearhead the initiative when released on 27th July. Facebook integration means game owners will be able to identify and populate their Battle.net friends lists with speedy efficiency.

There's no word of Diablo III or World of Warcraft adopting these features. Yet.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was given a 27th July online release date yesterday.

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About StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
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- Release date 27/07/2010
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Der_tolle_Emil #1 2 years ago

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As long as I'm not forced to use Facebook in any way that's fine with me.
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hiddenranbir #2 2 years ago

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Don't other games already allow such integration? I have one guy who keeps broadcasting his WiC level.
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JohnnyWashnGo #3 2 years ago

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The EFF has a good article about Facebook communications.

[link url=http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/things-you-need-know-about-facebook
]http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/thi...[/link]

Why do devs think that adding Facebook nonsense to games is even remotely useful?
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ignatiusjreilly #4 2 years ago

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It's not just games. i work for a business that has nothing to do with social media but if Facebook doesn't come up in a meeting or project plan everyone assumes something's missing.
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Vixremento #5 2 years ago

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Agreed - Facebook integration? I personally don't care what they do as long as I can just play the damn single player campaign without being forced to upload details to any online medium (i.e. I wanna be able to play it OFFLINE!)
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paketep #6 2 years ago

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Bah. Like their new Battle.net is not Facebook enough.

Less facebook and more LAN, Blizzard.
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iamian #7 2 years ago

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It's not just games. i work for a business that has nothing to do with social media but if Facebook doesn't come up in a meeting or project plan everyone assumes something's missing.

Same here. I think every press release this year (and prior) has ended with "Follow us on Facebook and Twitter"
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Gurgeh #8 2 years ago

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"Why do devs think that adding Facebook nonsense to games is even remotely useful? "

I suspect an exchange of $$$ is involved. Usefulness to the player doesn't come into it.
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skuzzbag #9 2 years ago

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The people who made this decision have probably

a: never played a game
b: never used facebook
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the_mtfr #10 2 years ago

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What the hell is Blizzard turning into?
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Jocho #11 2 years ago

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Am I the only one to think this is great? Having to add my friends to *yet* another network (such as google wave...or Steam) is really frustrating, when I know I've got next to all my friends on Facebook and that other programs can import those friends. This way I can just import them all and play with them without first finding out their Battle.Net nicks, which would be a hazzle. Maybe I'll even stay longer, thanks to this, as I can play and stay "social"!
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dylman #12 2 years ago

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Just imagine your WoW Armory news feed integrated into your Facebook page. The thought of it actually brings me out in a cold sweat...
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StooMonster #13 2 years ago

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Do we need all this web2.0rhea?
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Dashnak #14 2 years ago

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I think this is actually very cool, it makes gaming achievements seem more 'real' because your 'real' friends become aware of them.

However, I would never want 95% of my facebook friends to know I play video games at all, so this is at the end of the day completely useless to me
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butler` #15 2 years ago

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WoW + facebook... the world as we know it might end
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butler` #16 2 years ago

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@Dashnak, you need new friends.
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CalmHorizons #17 2 years ago

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This is called synergy. Eventually Google will merge with game companies, purchase facebook and outsource everything to faceless designers who get paid peanuts.

Then... the organ harvesting begins.
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slackarse #18 2 years ago

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To everyone blaming devs for facebook integration. I doubt it is the devs idea. I'm a dev, I use facebook, I don't want to implement facebook in applications/games. However, time and again, I find myself having to integrate it.
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