{"id":7120,"date":"2010-08-17T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"you-can-change-your-starcraft-ii-name-once-for-free-after-that-it-ll-cost-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7120-you-can-change-your-starcraft-ii-name-once-for-free-after-that-it-ll-cost-you","title":{"rendered":"You can change your StarCraft II name once for free, after that it&#039;ll cost you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Blizzard has announced that all StarCraft II players will get a chance to change their in-game name once. After that, you will have to pay for the privilege, WoW style.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In some cases, people chose character names that don&#8217;t represent their usual multiplayer nicknames, as they were unaware of how the character names were being used,&#8221; explains Blizzard. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to us that everyone is represented by a name of their choosing in their multiplayer games, ladders, and on the forums and community site.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Players are bound to be upset by the name-change fee, however, considering the nature of the competative StarCraft II arena, it is probably better if players are locked into a single name for their SCII career, and one could even make the argument for no name changes at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StarCraft II to follow in WoW&#039;s name-change-fee footsteps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}