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I think its lame. And all people will do is find ways around it.

No matter what they do to prevent piracy...it will be undone.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6214823.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;3

Blizzard attributed the delay to a desire to release Starcraft II alongside the relaunch of its online networking service Battle.net.

Blizzard has previously indicated that the newly redesigned Battle.net will factor heavily into the game maker's antipiracy initiative

This is a good thing.

This is a good thing.

For the quality of the game?

Or?

Blizzard seem to be making the 'new' Battle.net more like XBox Live.

Oh, good, DLC and micropayments. Blizzard Points.

We don't need another system like this on the PC.

We've already got Steam, Impulse, Games for Windows Live, EA Downloader... how many more do we get?

Every company will want to do their own rendition. It will spiral out of control.

Every company will want to do their own rendition. It will spiral out of control.

I don't know about every company, but the large, PC-focused ones certainly. Blizzard probably thinks it is too big, too important to join Steam or Games for Windows... the problem of course is that this is all annoying for the consumer.

Of course, since when have companies cared about that.