purifier wrote...
nsl41288 wrote...
I wonder if they are gonna force us to pay subscription fees for this, that was my major problem with WoW, pay 50 dollars and then pay another 15 bucks a month, wtf?? They better not. They are generating enough revenue from WoW already.
They aren't. Battle.net has always been free and so far they have stated it will be (practically) free forever (I doubt forever, but who knows.).
Battle Net 2 is under construction to welcome SC 2 and Diablo 3. One of the Blizzard employe said they yet have to decide the way Bnet 2 will function but they said they wanted to improved Bnet2 to prevent cheat and all the stuff.
To me, it's pretty obvious they are heavily considering asking for a subscription, even a little one, to have access to Bnet2.
The first Bnet supported Starcraft, Diablo II, W3 and Tft... and the players weren't paying. That's what made it a success.
However now Blizzard have a very very large range of customer. With their fame and if DIablo III and SC2 are a success (which will probably be the case) they could ask for a fee for Bnet2 and it wouldn't prevent them from selling a lot...
Lathandien: Diablo III is gonna be a hack n slash, like diablo II, sacred, Titan Quest...
And no this is not a permanent world. When you create a game a random map is generated which you progress through. The only things that remain are the basecamp for the questline and the mandatory places and mobs for the questline.
In Diablo II you could have 6 (8? don't remember) people in a game at the same time. The map just disppear at the end and another is created...
Well, this is not a permanent world like WoW.It couldn't be more clear xD