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I'll pay a small monthly fee,as long as i don't have to pay for the initial game, and they add content all the time. Which would be impossible. What are they going to add?
The transaction is simple. It costs them x amount of money to make the game (say 50 million). They need to sell x amount of copies to make a profit (they'll make a huge profit,from korea alone,let alone US and EU). That's all there is to it,no need to complicate things with a monthly fee. Then by the time the sales drop,an expansion comes out-even huger profit because the game is already made, the expo just adds units,maps and another campaign,but still costs 50-60 dollars AU.
As has been said,MMO's are fee driven because of the server costs,but yeah they still make profits,that's why they add new content-keep the people playing,keep the cash rolling in.
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unless they have some extremely crazy plans for b.net that would require high costs to maintain they would never do this, if it's just going to be an improvement like bw --> wc3 bnet was, (up from current wc3 bnet). either that or if they had major updates to the game that kept on providing large amounts of content/features, but that's also unrealistic.
so in otherwords this is a pointless discussion as Blizzard would most likely not charge a subscription for it.
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supposedly blizzard promised upgraded bnet features... but not sure what that means... so open ended..
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you only pay monthly fees for mmorpgs, sc2 is a rts, I'm not sure how this speculation even began
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Pay to play would kill the game.
Its important to have a fan-base culture for a game (like this forum) but its also important to have those people who just somehow bought the game, stumbled upon the multiplayer and play it every other friday night when they get hammered.
Or anyone else separated from the starcraft culture.
Some people just want to buy a video game, not an entrance into some subscription culture of paying people (XBOX LIVE?).
The thing I loved about Starcraft was joining the random games late at night with people you know have everyday jobs and normal lives and are not part of any S.C. culture at all, but still have fun, maybe get a lil high every once and a while and play some lotem.
That's the difference in the coolness factor from a game like ... "Everquest." If your chilling with some friends and they start talking names of games ... Starcraft was always mentioned on a high note with at least a few people who played a little bit back in middle school or whatever. Say "Everquest" and its like admitting to being part of some nerd-culture stigma, but starcrafts just a fun-ass computer game to play and kill time with.
Dont turn starcraft into pay =x
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They intend it to be as successful as the first one, therefore they might deem it possible to charge TV studios for showing Starcraft 2 on the air ^_^ That'd be a good way for them to get money!
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I highly doubt Blizzard will charge you to play their game but if they do I'm most definitely one that will pay the cost.
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Every time I see this thread reappear in the latest 5 I cringe. Don't talk about this, don't even think about this. The idea that we might have to pay a fee to play sc2 is too horrible and should not exist.
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It's easy to speculate, but in the end we all know we won't have to pay.. perhaps we're all talking ourselves out of believing this too good to be true thing about SC2.. we grew up thinking it would never happen.. we all finally quit bw to an extent.. and here it is to refresh our memories  .. be glad.. and even at the odds it does become pay to play.. 5$ a month or whatever is worth the hours of entertainment and distant nostalgia from the beginning of sc and bw.. cherish this game because who the hell knows, maybe one day when we're old and we look back on all the hours we wasted on this game.. our grand kids will walk in with SC 4 or something :D.. anyways gl to us future sc2 customers
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I would gladly pay five dollars a month if it meant better b.net support, blah blah blah.
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Russian Federation481 Posts
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nope
wont work and will probably hinder the popularity
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Any updates on this topic? Sorry to bump this but i think it's a very interesting one
Anyone with fresh info?
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On February 01 2008 00:30 IH4t3z3rg wrote:
Any updates on this topic? Sorry to bump this but i think it's a very interesting one
Anyone with fresh info?
The fresh info is why the hell did you bump this and its quite obvious they aren't going to make it pay to play.
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Did you learn about that through your crystal ball?
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On February 01 2008 00:43 XMShake wrote:Show nested quote +On February 01 2008 00:30 IH4t3z3rg wrote:
Any updates on this topic? Sorry to bump this but i think it's a very interesting one
Anyone with fresh info? The fresh info is why the hell did you bump this and its quite obvious they aren't going to make it pay to play.
Wow, you're a fucking dick. Show us any evidence that they aren't going to make it pay to play. This is a very interesting topic as It will determine if a lot of people play.
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It's be mega retarded to do that that's why it won't be pay to play. They already have WoW with 10 million and they aren't fucking stupid ;P
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That has nothing to do with anything. Just because they make money off WoW doesn't mean they want to lose money by making Starcraft 2's multiplayer free. If they have really high end servers for it and they put alot of money into it, why wouldn't they make it pay to play? There are so many games that are pay to play these days, you pay for the powerful servers, reduced lag / latency, and tournaments etc.
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If it works anything like it did in SC, the powerful servers shouldn't reduce the latency in games at all
You might be able to join and create games a bit better, but that's a small fraction of the type of lag that we care about
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Pay to play is nice.
If you can't pay like $10/month your a cheap bastard. I guess most of the people who don't wanna pay are the 14-year olds who don't have money
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