My Dearest Blizzard Entertainment: Fuck You.
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Rii
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Premium memberships on TrekBBS offer certain features for a fee, yet so far as I'm able to discern you're still here, posting, for free. Monetisation does not necessarily translate to charging for core services, in the case of Battle.net it almost certainly doesn't. The comparison makes perfect sense, assuming that "monetisation" means "we're going to charge a monthly fee for access" is like assuming that the introduction of premium memberships on TrekBBS marks the end of free memberships.
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Blizzard announces the NBE - New Battle.net Experience - to feature Netflix access and avatars. Yours for the low, low price of 50 dollars a year! 
To be fair, it's worked great for Korean game makers and Blizzard's biggest audience is South Korea.
Oh, of course. I imagine they'll just keep the basic level of service that we have now free then, I dunno, have premium crap for people who want to pay... like an actual friendly to use UI or something. 
Honestly, I find the custom maps to be more fun than normal "death match" so in that respect I think it's worth it.
So... you're going to pirate a game because you'd have to pay if you wanted to use the multiplayer which you aren't going to use anyway?
The really strange thing about Blizzard possibly charging for Battle.net is that they really don't need to. I would imagine they pull in enough revenue in a year to keep it running for a very long time.
His problem might be the limited campaign choice at launch rather than the multiplayer.So... you're going to pirate a game because you'd have to pay if you wanted to use the multiplayer which you aren't going to use anyway?
His problem might be the limited campaign choice at launch rather than the multiplayer.So... you're going to pirate a game because you'd have to pay if you wanted to use the multiplayer which you aren't going to use anyway?
That doesn't really make it much better.
The best way to protest this sort of thing isn't piracy... it's just not playing the game.
Or to give it hundreds of one star ratings on Amazon.His problem might be the limited campaign choice at launch rather than the multiplayer.So... you're going to pirate a game because you'd have to pay if you wanted to use the multiplayer which you aren't going to use anyway?
That doesn't really make it much better.
The best way to protest this sort of thing isn't piracy... it's just not playing the game.
I don't really see what the problem here is. If you don't like it, don't pay for it.
The end?
The end?
So... you're going to pirate a game because you'd have to pay if you wanted to use the multiplayer which you aren't going to use anyway?
No. I'll pirate it because of Blizzard's policy of selling one game for the price of three.
Rii
Rear Admiral
Oh it could certainly be a complete clusterfuck, but we don't know that. Until we have some information regarding which types of features may be monetised, I think judgements are a little premature. Blizzard isn't going to start charging for core multiplayer services for the simple reason that nobody is willing to pay for it; which, given that one of the strengths of Blizzard's games is their long lifespan wrt multiplayer communities and the like, would impact significantly on retail sales also.
Warcraft IV before SC3, sorry.
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