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Machina said:

I just wrote a huge reply but I hate getting into long debates in threads with posts that just get longer and longer, so I'll just give you a couple of links to illustrate that most of us do want them:

1 - the Team Liquid poll, 94% don't like the new B.Net - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=128014
2 - Official Beta forums, loads of threads on this issue, the vast majority of people commenting want them. 'Do you really want chat rooms?' thread - http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25170436970&sid=5010}

And just for for fun - http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9806/bnet02.jpg ;)


I didn't realize so many people felt so strongly about it. Though, I'd say polls on a site like Team Liquid/Beta forums are very skewed - the minority or players likely to be on a site to chat in SC forums are infinitely more likely to want to use chat. Whereas those who buy games just to play them, without investing a lot of additional time in various community options are likely to feel far less strongly about it, if they care at all. And while there are a few aspects of WC3's battle.net I'd like to see return, thus far, the superiority of the matchmaking system has, for me, been a greater gain than all that is lost.