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Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - EverBlue - 12-21-2008 http://www.destructoid.com/in-the-future-b...ey-107378.phtml I honestly hope this isn't true at all. I can see Blizzard suffering massively. First splitting SC2 into three games... Then charging money to play online? :nono: Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - Orin - 12-21-2008 Blizzard sold their souls to Activision, correct? Seems like since they did that they've been pulling idiot moves like this. Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - Drake - 12-21-2008 This, if confirmed, would definitely mean I would lose all interest in Diablo 3. I only played 1 and 2 for the Battle.net multiplayer (as single-player games they were OK, but not great), and I have better things to spend money on than any game subscriptions. On the other hand, people have developed software for hosting private bnet servers. Blizzard doesn't like them, it doesn't like them at all, and discussion/advertising of them has been banned on planetdiablo.com. But if some people got some working and populated servers running for D3 at some point, then I might regain interest. But Blizzard would try and shut them all down. Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - ivr56 - 12-21-2008 Quote:After the colossal failure that was once a promising game, World of Warcraft, Blizzard has had to revaluate its existence and make some tough spending decisions. They say World of Warcraft is a failure? They got 11 Million Subscribers Worldwide. How is that a failure? More subscribers then any MMO I think. If they make Battle.net a fee to play, then they will just loose money and what Drake said more and more will look to private servers as a solution. Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - Drake - 12-21-2008 ' Wrote:They say World of Warcraft is a failure? That was sarcasm. It doesn't always translate well over the internet without [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags. Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - Blodo - 12-21-2008 This is actually only partially true, even if it is a definite encroachment on forcing people to start paying cash for online services on non-MMO games (which however you look at it is a bit of a business breakthrough, and will no doubt catch on at other companies if it is successful). According to a different source: Quote:So Julian (Jay) Wilson told us that you guys are looking monetize Battle.Net in some way. Is that right? Source: http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellfo...ed-As-Reference Battle.net 2.0 subscription fee? - JakeSG - 12-22-2008 Christ, it seems that Blizzard's all in it for the money these days. Their games used to be WTFAwesome, but ever since WoW the company as a whole seems to have been going downhill. From what I can tell, none of their previous games, even WC3 TFT have no tech support or moderation whatsoever. Battle.net is a free for all, gentlemen. If you're brave enough to use it, you're on your own. |