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Battle.net 2.0 Paid Service a Possibility?

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Blizzard CEO and President Mike Morhaime evaded a question in the public Q&A during a Activision Blizzard conference call held outside the boundaries of E3 2009. Are there any plans to monetize Battle.net 2.0 service? Mike Morhaime limited to answer: "I'm not ready to talk about that today".
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Published: 159 days 18 hours ago | News | E3 2009 | Gaming | PC
 
 

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kerriganss - 159 days 18 hours ago
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oh no...
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1.1 PinkUni | 159 days 18 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Tito Jackson - 159 days 17 hours ago
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trust me. when you play this game, you wont care. if you have to pay, you'll pay. just like with WoW and XBL. people pay b/c they love it. and i promise you, your going to love the online gameplay---ALOT.
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Maticus - 159 days 18 hours ago
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Uh-oh, sounds like it's a real possibility then.
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Leord - 159 days 18 hours ago
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The thing is, it's unlikely in my opinion that they will, but WHY don't they actually just say it will be free?

They have a huge M$ ad deal, what else do they need?
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Leord - 159 days 18 hours ago
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The better f'ing not!
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Seferoth75 - 159 days 12 hours ago
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They said long ago it would be under the new battlenet service and p2p. Why are people acting like this is something new?
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Recka - 159 days 18 hours ago
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Oh God no T_T that'd be a total downer :(
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theCHUNK - 159 days 18 hours ago
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Not wanting to talk about it doesn't mean they are going to charge anything.

That said, if they do make it a subscription to play custom maps, I think most of their audience will evaporate. It's fun to play on bnet, but it isn't so fun that I want to pay a subscription. It's not quite like WoW, where they are updating the content - it's just matching people up on a server.

You know how Blizzard wants to be more like Steam... well they should try a bit harder. I can play L4D and TF2 for free, why would I pay to play a TD or an AoS clone?
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kuangtu - 159 days 18 hours ago
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I'm not really against paid service as long as it's worth the money. However I can't think of anything yet, I bet Blizzard did. I just hope they won't turn something obvious free to profit.
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Wuushu - 159 days 18 hours ago
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WTF.... ?
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DeepThought - 159 days 18 hours ago
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itll probably just cost money for stuff like a stat reset or name change, thats what i hope at least
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mquirozz - 159 days 17 hours ago
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moondragon - 159 days 17 hours ago
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This could only mean special features like e sports or things like that but i dont think they will require you to pay for basic mp games. They are not retarded to do so.
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c0de - 159 days 16 hours ago
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i'm going to stick to playing sc:bw if they do that. . .
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CaulkSlap - 159 days 11 hours ago
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Trying to charge for an RTS would be suicide. That would be a quick way to kill their massive world wide fanbase.
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Grandreaper9999 - 158 days 18 hours ago
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I'll be playing very little of SC2 if that's the case.

If after all these years of waiting for a new SC title, and finally it it ends up sub-based, I don't think I'm going to bother with any post-2002 Blizzard games anymore. All I can do is hope that they don't pull down the older games anytime soon or suddenly charge for those.
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