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Ganfei1
China667 Posts
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FatRine
406 Posts
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L!MP
Australia2067 Posts
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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Krohm
Canada1857 Posts
On May 25 2007 14:18 NotSorry wrote: I won't be happy about it, but I'll still pay a monthly fee if thats what it comes down to. Same, however it would reduce hackers, immature little kids, and black people (JOKING! ROFL) The only problem is it would greatly reduce the player amount. Before I had a credit card, I had to go through alot of hassle to pay for shit over the internet. I'm sure other people have to. Its just to much hassle and not worth the time usually... | ||
semioldguy
United States7488 Posts
On May 24 2007 02:08 intotherainx wrote: Whoa, I think you took a post way too personally. I don't think he meant it as an attack on poor people or anything... he's just making a simple point... why would anyone want to pay extra money when it can be free? It's easy to see everything as an attack of who you are, but get over it. =/ Did you even read these posts? Clearly he is not attacking poor people, as any idiot could see. I didn't see it as an attack of "who I was." I am angry because he is defending his position using examples filled with his ignorance, and the sarcasm doesn't help him cause. If he expects a civil response, he should give them himself. "Do us a favor, get the fuck out" seems hostile to me. Why the fuck shuold I be nice to him if he responds to me like that? Not everything in the world can be free, everything in the world cost something somewhere along the line. If a company is using their resources in providing the service of cracking down on hackers, creating a pleasurable and stable multiplayer gaming environment and other various forms of support for a game; then they have a right to charge a fee for their efforts. If someone is making money off something they are much more likely to do a better job than if they weren't getting paid for it. And they will want to keep people paying for the service or attract other to the service (depending one one-time or recurring fees) which will also encourage them to keep doing a good job as they don't want to lose people/business. | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32152 Posts
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MyLostTemple
United States2921 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9110 Posts
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
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OGROKTEHUBER
United States2 Posts
Same old bullshit arguments, same old bullshit attitude, same old bullshit "rags to riches" story. 1. Charging $15 a month didn't do shit to stop spoiled little kids from taking over WoW. 2. Ever heard of the product support life cycle? Apparently not. This may come as a surprise to you, but supporting the software you have written is actually a major part of remaining competitive. Or do you honestly think anyone would play (and thus continue to buy copies of) Starcraft if it was filled with exploits and unbeatable unit-massing strategies? 3. I could probably afford to pay a lot more for gas, but I'm not fucking stupid enough to trip over myself in an attempt to get gas companies to raise prices. Funny how the capitalist mindset actually encourages people to look only at the "soundness of the business decision by the company" and ignore the fact that they are getting ripped off. | ||
Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
i just need a job first to afford it | ||
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Zea!
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aseq
Netherlands4002 Posts
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Manaldski
229 Posts
Given the popularity of “WoW,” do you have any plans to go to subscription model with “StarCraft 2” or any subsequent releases? We’re going to do what’s right for the game. We made “WoW” to be a subscription game from the very beginning. With “StarCraft 2” it’s probably going to follow more of a box model. But we’ll decide more of that stuff down the line. the man says it to all of you "Probably its gonna be free" + charging fees and wanting to produce the "ultimate competitive RTS" doesnt go hand by hand. Now wait untill game is near release and then speculate. | ||
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Piste
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ChApFoU
France2984 Posts
On May 25 2007 14:54 semioldguy wrote: Did you even read these posts? Clearly he is not attacking poor people, as any idiot could see. I didn't see it as an attack of "who I was." I am angry because he is defending his position using examples filled with his ignorance, and the sarcasm doesn't help him cause. If he expects a civil response, he should give them himself. "Do us a favor, get the fuck out" seems hostile to me. Why the fuck shuold I be nice to him if he responds to me like that? Not everything in the world can be free, everything in the world cost something somewhere along the line. If a company is using their resources in providing the service of cracking down on hackers, creating a pleasurable and stable multiplayer gaming environment and other various forms of support for a game; then they have a right to charge a fee for their efforts. If someone is making money off something they are much more likely to do a better job than if they weren't getting paid for it. And they will want to keep people paying for the service or attract other to the service (depending one one-time or recurring fees) which will also encourage them to keep doing a good job as they don't want to lose people/business. Stop this bullshit dude, Blizzard is making loads of money from these games and they will sell millions of copies of SC2 no matter what. That wasn't a personal attack but I still think saying "Most people who complain about these relatively small monthly fees are the people without jobs and people I generally don't like anyway" is utterly retarded. Guess what there's a whole big world outside of the united states, places where sometimes you cannot get a job even when you look hard enough and where wages are incredibly low. There are ppl who are in difficult situations and who are not complaining ad blaming others, these ppl have the right to entertain just as we do right ? And it's not always that simple to just go around the streets and ask for a job. And what about youngsters who want to focus on school ? you are calling me ignorant but you look very narrow minded. So I'm asking you, what do we have to gain with monthly fees ? Absolutely nothing, and people who are low on money have everything to loose, chinese, russians ppl form eastern europe. I know I wasn't very mannered with my response sry about that, but I still completely disagree with you and I still think you sounded like a asshole in that first post :/ | ||
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ChApFoU
France2984 Posts
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LastWish
2015 Posts
Since you could just use fake b-nets or hamachi to play lan games -> no fee and no one would use the original... also it would encourage people to stick with SC1. | ||
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True_Spike
Poland3434 Posts
In other words, I wouldn't worry about that. Blizzard knows what it's doing. | ||
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