http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/blizzcon-2008-rob-pardo-talks-battle-net-monetizing/




Foot. In. Mouth.

Electronics Boutique. In '96, my dad downloaded spawn diablo on our 28k modem (which took 4 days), and finally decided to buy it. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. After playing for 2 years and absolutely loved it, I heard SC was coming out, went to EB, asked the guy if it was any good (he said yes) and since there was a 20$ off sale, I got it for $20-25 of my own money (I was 11 at the time, too).

This is the real American story. I'd vote for any candidate who included that in his stump speech.

Didn't they already clarify that the SC2 trilogy is going to be a trilogy?
You are not paying for the race, you're paying for the campaign. All races are playable as of the Terran pack, just the following two games are campaigns with maybe a slight update to battle.net. They even said that the protoss and zerg CD's will be expansion packs, so people that don't ultimately want to buy all three campaigns, don't need to in order to get the multiplayer experience. So the SC2 thing is not that big a deal, I would of preffered the delay and got all at once, but hey, with the American economy down and major holidays approaching, this may be a business plan to make SC2 the headline game of christmas so they get huge sales, because people wont be able to afford to buy games they're unsure uf.

As for Diablo 3, as long as the extra features IS for stuff stupid like, name changes, additional character slots or other misc things that arn't actually ever NEEDED to be done, then i'm fine with it. However if they fuck us over by giving us say 2 or 4 character slots out of 8 available character slots and charge us 5.99 for more character slots, that's stupid.

As for the Steam comments, it's not the same thing.
Team Fortress 2 has all the core elements pre-coded, for example you cannot be a heavy with a medigun using a sniper rifle and then eat a sanvdich. They don't have to do a huge campaign and all these alternative features that they can charge people for, however you do get charged extra for stuff like hosting Servers, guest passes and miniscule things like that, so they ARE doing what Steam does :S!!

You can download WoW...

OMFG NOT ANOTHER FING WOW I AM SO OUT IF THEY MAKE ME PAY FOR B.NET OR MICRO TRANSACTIONS
I might buy ONE starcraft for the campaign, but... shift.
If this is true I am finally going to get some serious work IRL accomplished, heh.

That is kind of depressing, tho

If they make Battle.net not free I will personally sick an Ultralisk on them.

Hopefully, each piece of the trillogy will have a new CDKey. I'd rather not have to buy two sets of the who fucking thing just so that me and DM can play together.

woot the hell??
diablo3: ok
but battle.net should be free! FOR EVER!!!
if it won't be for free later... is it possible to create a own server??
if not: HAMACHI! xD

3SC2 parts aren't that bad.... but is there one main game, and 2 addons? or 3 "main"games? if 1 maingame and 2 addons a addon should not be more expensiv as 20$-25$

I hope to god that doesn't include such things as buying items directly from blizzard.

Guys did you not read my response as to the SC2 Trilogy :S?

This. Otherwise I'm sticking to D2...

That is the pinnacle of gayness.

I can understand fees for name changes, but for additional items.. I'd rather play Maple Story for that shit,

Eh. It doesn't seem so bad. I don't think they'll include items or gold for fees - they never went that low with WoW. You can play full SCII with one of the three, and DIII looks epic enough. And like it won't have a monthly fee.

lol Gold farming is a multimillion dollar business, they could screw a lot of chinese over by doing that.

They should.

Stupid Blizzard leading to the rise of a new superpower. Sue Blizzard for treason!

I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing

Now you can have your very own Jah Ith Ber! Just send us your creditcard number!!!(Stupid amount of !'s)

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