I must be missing something painfully obvious.
I'll do this from the beginning and please, feel free to jump in and tell me what I'm doing wrong and/or if I'm making incorrect assumptions.
Bought, installed and started playing the game.
Once I get the hang of it I decide that I want to get my a$$ handed to me on-line.
I click on multiplayer and set up my profile. So far so good.
I look for waiting challenges and jump into one. Now the chat screen is blocking my view and I can't minimize or close it. I try again with another game and this time it seems to work okay. Just waiting for the other player to move.
Now, while looking for other games the connect mini-screen comes up and does nothing. Yep, all connection are good; I'm not missing anything simple.
I come here and check downloads just for fun. There's a MAN download available so I try it. Nope; not what I was looking for and I'm DAMN sure not paying a subscription fee (Battlenet = free anyone?).
Like I said, maybe I'm doing something horribly wrong but this is not intuitive. There is nothing that comes with the game that clearly explains the problems I'm having (including the PDF manual).
My ultimate goal? To get my brother to buy and install the game and whoop his a$$ online from a few states away. Secondary goal; get on-line and challenge others to build my skill level and learn the true definition of humility
Current problem; when selecting "in progress" games from my multiplayer list (I seem to have a few going now) I can't connect to them.
Any help would be appreciated. This is a fantastic game and yeah, I guess I could suck it up and pay a few bucks for a subscription, although I don't see the point. Maybe I'm looking for too much simplicity. I'm going to RTFM again and make sure I'm not missing anything subtle.