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So I was just in the shower...

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Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
April 05 2009 17:47 GMT
#1
I spend half the day just lying in bed, but then one of my roommates start playing loud music so it was time to throw on the towel and get in the shower. As I get in the shower, I just turn it on as hot as I can stand and zone out. And then for some reason this pops into my head:

Blizzard are merging all their game accounts into one Battle.Net 2.0 account. They won't make you pay just to play Starcraft2, they will make you pay for playing all of their games.

Personally I'd be cool with this seeing as how I already have a WoW account that I play on at most every other week, not really getting my money's worth.

**
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
Aerox
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Malaysia1213 Posts
April 05 2009 17:57 GMT
#2
hmm... web-based STEAM
"Eyes in the sky."
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-05 18:00:22
April 05 2009 17:57 GMT
#3
WoW still won't be on battle.net.

And I doubt future MMOs from Blizzard will either.

Also I doubt customers would want to pay for games they aren't playing when they could have a cheaper fee for their own game if the subscriptions were divided.
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
April 05 2009 17:59 GMT
#4
thread didn't deliver -_-
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Hammy
Profile Joined January 2009
France828 Posts
April 05 2009 18:06 GMT
#5
Yeah that's just silly imo
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
April 05 2009 18:13 GMT
#6
What? ... That's not going to happen. You're never going to -have- to pay for Battle.net. Ever.
♥ I used to lasso the shit out of your tournaments =( ♥ | Much is my hero. | zizi yO~ | Be Nice, TL.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
April 05 2009 18:18 GMT
#7
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote:
thread didn't deliver -_-

If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24805 Posts
April 05 2009 18:20 GMT
#8
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote:
thread didn't deliver -_-

You enjoy information about guys in the shower?

That's okay and all.

Just checking.
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plated.rawr
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Norway1676 Posts
April 05 2009 18:20 GMT
#9
When I read the thread title, I expected you to have discovered something unfortunate below your waistline. The thread was a huge dissapointment

1 / 5.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
April 05 2009 18:32 GMT
#10
On April 06 2009 03:20 micronesia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote:
thread didn't deliver -_-

You enjoy information about guys in the shower?

That's okay and all.

Just checking.

Damn straight o.o
lol hehe.
I thought it was going to be something along the lines of "as I was getting out of the shower I slipped, eating shit, and now I am missing 3 teeth. wut do I do TL?"
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Chau
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada408 Posts
April 05 2009 18:48 GMT
#11
I'm not too sure, but isn't WoW the only game by Blizzard where you have to pay subscription fees?
Elvin_vn
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
Vietnam2038 Posts
April 05 2009 18:49 GMT
#12
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote:
thread didn't deliver -_-

do not agrue with idiots, they will pull you down to their level and beat you with their experiences
R3condite
Profile Joined August 2008
Korea (South)1541 Posts
April 05 2009 19:24 GMT
#13
On April 06 2009 03:48 Chau wrote:
I'm not too sure, but isn't WoW the only game by Blizzard where you have to pay subscription fees?

yup... also damn man... misleading title

was expecting something funny haha
ggyo...
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
April 05 2009 19:28 GMT
#14
On April 06 2009 02:47 Osmoses wrote:
I spend half the day just lying in bed, but then one of my roommates start playing loud music so it was time to throw on the towel and get in the shower. As I get in the shower, I just turn it on as hot as I can stand and zone out. And then for some reason this pops into my head:

Blizzard are merging all their game accounts into one Battle.Net 2.0 account. They won't make you pay just to play Starcraft2, they will make you pay for playing all of their games.

Personally I'd be cool with this seeing as how I already have a WoW account that I play on at most every other week, not really getting my money's worth.


What a great theory...except for one tiny detail. The Battle.net FAQ already states that there will be no subscription or creation fee for getting a Battle.net 2.0 account.

Anyway, I seriously doubt Battle.net 2.0 will be subscription based. Blizzard is well aware of the fact that one of the biggest draws of Battle.net is that it is free of charge. So rather then make people pay to use Battle.net, they will rather charge for trivial things that are not that important for gamers.

I think Rob Pardo expressed preety well what they intend to do with Battle.net 2.0:

So Julian Wilson told us that you guys are looking monetize Battle.Net in some way. Is that right?

Wow, that's an evil way of putting it. Julian's turning into a business guy on me. Here's the way I would put it. We're definitely not looking at turning Diablo into a subscription based game. It's clearly not an MMO, so it's not appropriate to do a business model like that. The way we approach all of our games now, is we come up with what we think is a great game, and then we wrap the appropriate business model around it. If that's just a box price, then that's that.

With Battle.Net we're definitely looking at possible different features that we might be able to do for additional money. We're not talking about Hellgate or anything like that. We're not going to tack things on. I think World of Warcraft is a great example to look at. We charge people if they want to switch servers or if they want name changes, things that aren't core to the game experience, they're really just optional things that some people want. It takes us some development work to do it, so it makes sense to charge for it. We would never do something like say to get the full game experience, you'll have to pay extra.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
April 05 2009 19:46 GMT
#15
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote:
thread didn't deliver -_-

Lim Yo Hwan forever!
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
April 06 2009 07:29 GMT
#16
I was hoping your shower did some kind of reverse osmoses
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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