Battle.net - not more for free ?!

Starcraft 2 was presented in china. there were ask some intresting questions:

it is also nothing decided.In some regional districts would it be possible that battle.net isn't anylonger for free!

More informations Are in this article: http://www.starcraft-source.com/news/Blizzard_Presents_SC2_in_China.htm

 

Re: Battle.net - not more fore free?

Wasn't SC Source being retarded? Jon made a frontpage piece about it...

 

Re: Battle.net - not more fore free?

It will be for free, im 100% sure. Else they will not be able to build such a huge community up as they want.

 

Re: Battle.net - not more fore free?

Blizzard knows damn well if they make this a pay per month game, they will lose all respect they ever had.

 

Re: Battle.net - not more fore free?

Hey proxy, please fix the headline. its for not fore!

If they made this cost money, then Ill suicide me into Dustin Browder´ office.

 

If it ain't free to play on bnet I won't even buy Sc2. Just wait for a crack or somethimg :/

Make a coughbiasedcough poll in favour of keeping it free.

 

I would buy SC2, the misions are good enought to pay 50 dollars for.

 

same here, I'd buy the game anyway, but I wouldn't play online

 

50 US Dollars? That means it would be £25 over here. And new games are like £40.

 

If it wasn't free I would still buy it, and I would pay the b.net fees to play online.

 

Zergalicious that was just a random price, ofc it should have been more like 60-80

 

I also read that BNet may not be free. But I am sure noone likes this idea. This is not WOW, here you don't leve lup and stuff, you just want to play games with random guys or friends.
For friends, there will be hamachi, and I think it wouldn't worth a monthly pay just to play on bnet... I think than I will make some of my friends to play SC2.

 

I'd be pretty damn sad, because I never played sc online and I was looking forward to SC2.

 

I think you will be able to play it online... I hope..

 

rts has to be free, its not like an mmo store lots of junk etc....if they do decide to go pay, hamachi ftw

 

Unless they manage to make you pay for using hamachi somehow ;D woa that would be a nightmare

 

IF there is gona be a Direct TCP/IP LAN network available as was later with patch in Starcraft 1, even if they dicide to make Bnet not for free (stupid idea of the millenium) i wouldnt care cause i could connect directy to my friends PC and Have on-line fan, without Bnet's LAG ;-)

 

if Blizzard doesnt make if free i think people will be rioting outside their office. ;D

 

I would be pissed for sure. They already own a highly populated MMORPG that requires monthly pay.

 

B.net has always been Free 2 Play. That's why Blizz made and continues to use and expand on it. It will not be Pay 2 Play.

Karune said it himself... that Blizzard IS looking into new ways of advertising though B.net. Why Ads in B.net? So it can pay for itself without having to get money from the players.

B.net will remain Free.

The only thing I could see them doing is give players the option of a pay subscription for use of more hardware taxing features like VoIP. That is the worse case I can imagine.