Blizzard, first and foremost, is a business. All the hype around D3 along with improvements made to Battlenet will likely cause some sort of subscription fee. The amount of time someone will spend to go around gathering new loot, however, is a different story.
If there is a montly subscription fee, they will make less money with the economy as it is.
That's part of it. I think the other big factor is that a lot of WoW players will be interested in D3. If it's a subscription game, many of them will just stick with WoW, and won't bother purchasing D3. If it's a non-sub game, a lot more WoW players could potentially buy it and play both.
If it cost money i don't know if me, my brother, and many others will even purchase it. It will pain me to do so, but the line needs to be drawn. I love diablo, but damn! Must players pay for a game after they bought it? Its not like they cant just release a frikkin expansion pack every year or two for a few bucks. Don't make this some WOWatized piece of junk blizzard.....NO FREAKIN SUBSCRIPTION FEES!!!
If it's not free I am not playing it. Which sucks, cause I'll be so tempted to, my buds will all have it but I cannot afford monthly fees for a game that isn't going to be constantly updated with new features added.
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That's part of it. I think the other big factor is that a lot of WoW players will be interested in D3. If it's a subscription game, many of them will just stick with WoW, and won't bother purchasing D3. If it's a non-sub game, a lot more WoW players could potentially buy it and play both.
I see now reason for it to have one. It would be very stupid IMO. Why is there this thing of saying D3 will be like an MMO... I dont get it.
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And you could get perks like your characters and account never expiring, or extra character slots, etc.
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