New Battle.Net Will Have Fees

dimeford - 450 days 8 hours ago

My Battle.net plan gives me free nights and weekends!

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Ninja-Sama - 449 days 22 hours ago

First you are required to buy three versions of the same game to experience the full story. And the thing is this trilogy does not even include the inevitable expansions that are to come. So what? We have to buy a trilogy of expansions as well?

In addition to paying for the full BNet experience? This isn't the Blizzard I know...sighs :(

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Bonsai1214 - 449 days 22 hours ago

i'm going to read the article now.. but if thats true...

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Panthers - 449 days 22 hours ago

No that isnt true. Could you imagine? $0.25 for a game join? LOL

But damn how much money does Activision need. They are getting around $200 Mil a month from WoW alone.

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Kigmal - 449 days 21 hours ago

This makes Xbox Live look good when you look at it from a different perspective.

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Proxy - 449 days 18 hours ago

.25 cents per game? There would be a lot of people wanting their money back. "ZOMG, he quit 2 mins into the game, I want my quarter back!"

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solar - 450 days 6 hours ago

i have a strong feeling you might be correct. :(

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dimeford - 450 days 5 hours ago

Yeah this is pretty mean, especially after the whole "we're splitting Starcraft 2 into three games" thing.

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Panthers - 449 days 22 hours ago

I like the trilogy idea since I want SC2 to be as long as possible, but it better not be $50 per game.

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facepalm - 449 days 22 hours ago

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

::facepalm::

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UltimateIdiot911 - 449 days 23 hours ago

I'm definitely not happy. I am somewhat okay with the whole 3 game thing since I care more about multiplayer but paying to play an RTS? Seriously????
Diablo 3 sounds more reasonable but Starcraft 2? Wow, they really want to shoot themselves in the foot bad.

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dimeford - 449 days 22 hours ago

Oh, I still see a lot of people buying it. They just might not keep playing it for as long.

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dimeford - 449 days 22 hours ago

Most likely. I'm sure they'll be getting an earful on their message boards so they'll clarify soon.

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FantasyStar - 449 days 22 hours ago

utility bill? Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Icewake - 449 days 22 hours ago

- pay for WoW character changes --Makes some sense. When you first create your character you should put a lot of effort into what you want to look like, and it isn't like having sex change operations in game make much sense anyway.

- Diablo 3 keeps kiddy graphics--- Kid graphics? I can agree on not liking the style but it is far from kiddie graphics, kiddie graphics is what a game like LBP has.

- Starcraft 2 split into 3 games--- They explained this and the reasoning is good. Splitting it in to three games allows for a more epic story for each faction and gets us deeper into the lore. Each disc has 30 missions and is a full length game.

They didn't say we have to pay to play. Some features will require a payment, this is totally fair. You're keeping your data on their servers, they have to pay to keep it running.

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