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Osmoses
Sweden5302 Posts
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.   | ||
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Aerox
Malaysia1213 Posts
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LaLuSh
Sweden2358 Posts
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. | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
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Hammy
France828 Posts
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Mikilatov
United States3897 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote: thread didn't deliver -_- | ||
micronesia
United States24755 Posts
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
Norway1676 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On April 06 2009 03:20 micronesia wrote: 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?" | ||
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Chau
Canada408 Posts
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Elvin_vn
Vietnam2038 Posts
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote: thread didn't deliver -_- | ||
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R3condite
Korea (South)1541 Posts
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 | ||
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Tom Phoenix
1114 Posts
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. | ||
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On April 06 2009 02:59 Fontong wrote: thread didn't deliver -_- | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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