Diablo III’s director Jay Wilson recently told an audience at BlizzCon that Blizzard and Activision are looking to make some money with the Battle.Net service. How Blizzard will be seeking to “monetize” is unknown, but Wilson said it was necessary to keep the financially crippled Blizzard alive and kicking.
From the panel discussion:
We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features. We kind of have to.
Wilson didn’t elaborate, but I think we all know how much Blizzard has been suffering the past few years. After the colossal failure that was once a promising game, World of Warcraft, Blizzard has had to revaluate its existence and make some tough spending decisions. It’s a shame that World of Warcraft never took off, but we have the massive success (over 15 million subscribers) of Star Wars: Galaxies to thank for that.
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12:43 PM on 10.12.2008
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I can't stand any of their decisions anymore.
Either its free to play or I won't bother.
the Congress fo the United States of America has just confirmed a 1000 billion dollar lifeline to save Blizzard.
in other news: the bank of Azeroth is going to get new funds.
That's $132 million.
A month.
Blizzard, you don't need any more money. You make 1.5 billion a year off subscriptions alone. I never really had a plan to get Starcraft II or Diablo III, but now you have guaranteed one less sale.
This is just greed, Blizzard.
And I was undecided regarding Wotlk, this has pretty much made up my mind - some things in the company's policy I was willing to forgive but they seem hellbent on screwing us for every penny now. Sod them.
Also, what have Activision done to poor Blizzard? :(
What bullshit!
Rage. Pure and unadulterated rage is what I feel right now.
Why, Blizzard, why? Making Starcraft in three games, okay... I wasn't nuts about that games, that's fine. It even made sense, to a degree. But this? You know what, I've had enough of your absolute nickle and dimming bullshit. Fuck you Blizzard. I used to love you, but look at what you've become. It's like I don't even know who you are anymore.
Everywhere else that I've heard this quote, it's been
"We are looking to monetize certain features of Diablo III so that we get to keep making these games and updating features. We kind of have to. "
You have it written as monetizing the whole of battle.net
We all know SC2 is going to be amazing, and i'm sure each of the three parts will be worth the money.
Diablo 3 is also tied to battle.net, no?
Meanwhile, they're going to release it as 3 pricey modules, and we might have to pay for the ability to play it on top of all that.
StarCraft 2 and Diablo 3 could end up sucking horribly, and nobody would admit it regardless.
I'm a Diablo 2 fan.. I may not play Diablo 3 if there's a monthly fee attached to it.. and I definitely WILL NOT play Starcraft 2 if I have to pay monthly for it. Its bad enough that they want us to spend $150 to get a whole campaign with Starcraft, but now we have to give them more loot on top of that? BULLSHIT BLIZZARD.
FUCK YOU BLIZZARD.
@Drach, DToid staff, and everyone else.
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I don't like : Having to pay for Battle.Net in Diablo 3.
It's not that I don't have the money now, but I remember back when I was 12, pennyless and playing Diablo 2 online... all that fun would not have existed if it had been Diablo 3? For the younger gamers who truely enjoy those hack'n slash game just as much as we do, why? ...
"We are going to monetize features so that we get to make them," said Wilson. "We kind of have to."
and
"We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features," said Wilson. "We kind of have to."
Considering each quote has got an almost entirely different meaning, I'm going to wait until an official announcement or explanation comes out and the internet get's their shit together instead of panicking. But wtf ever, it's not like the internet ever listens anyway.
Either way this spells THE IMMINENT DEATH OF PC GAMIMG!! Ooooooooh! (spooky voice)
even you seem to have it wrong
"We are going to monetize features so that we get to make them,"
"...features so that we get to make them..."
This is bullshit, Kotick was already bragging about the advertising potential of battlenet, and now they're going to be charging us for it too.