The reason I want a guest pass is because where I live, people almost always pirate games, even if they love to play them, simply because they are too cheap to actually buy the stuff they play. Problem for them is, usually pirated versions of games are less enjoyable than the real versions, and this is especially true for Starcraft 2. I checked most of the popular torrent sites, and it seems that even if I could persuade my friends to play Starcraft 2, none of whom are strategy gamers, they would pirate the game and only be able to play skirmish matches, since the offline campaign and the challenges, as well as the tutorials, are all tied to Battle.net.

I want my friends to experience the real deal, why I want them to buy this game, without them paying for trying out the newbie-friendly stuff. And since I have more than 2 friends, 2 guest passes aren't enough at all, so I'll take all the guest passes I can get!