ESRB and montly fees have no impact on who plays the game.
Parents will still make purchases to shut their kids up...or to make them happy even if its not what is sujested by some department we did not elect...
BATTLE.NET
Battle.net has never required a fee, however that is not to say that they will not. Until there is official word no one will know. Blogging about it will not get you the information you are looking for.
Diablo II
The game came out 7 years ago and has numerous patches. Look at what they do on WoW during an update. Once in a while something new and exciting but usually just fix bugs. So dont make it seem like WoW is making gaming history by creating NEW STUFF every week. They simply are not. To say that they are is a lie and maybe a subconscious way of making yourself feel better for spending 15 bucks a month.
WoW numbers:
Blizz is making over 1billion dollars a year off of your monthly subscriptions. Look at how many people are playing, then multiply that number by 15. I know it may be difficult but try it the numbers are out there just takes a little research. Now since many of you do not know just how much a billion is ill try to explain it to you. 1 million seconds is about 11.5 days...to where 1 billion seconds is about 31.7 YEARS. No one can tell me that pay roll, business expenses, RnD, and actual Programming and integration is costing any where near that amount. Where do you think that they came up with the money to make the D3 and where do you think that they will get the money to update it and keep it running smooth. Diablo is kinda like the Corvett. Chevy makes little to NO money of of it each year, however it is A BIG DEAL so they keep it around because they are not really loosing money off it, they are just not making much. And it does not matter if they dont make much because their sales off of other vehicles carries it. Again the numbers are out there, look it up.
SUMMARY:
Crying about things is as effective as attempting to understand a story by sleeping with the book and never reading it. Actions speak louder than words...getting any of this...you are not in control so if there is a fee then for some reason people will be happy and others will not to where the adverse is true as well.
ESRB and montly fees have no impact on who plays the game.
Parents will still make purchases to shut their kids up...or to make them happy even if its not what is sujested by some department we did not elect...
BATTLE.NET
Battle.net has never required a fee, however that is not to say that they will not. Until there is official word no one will know. Blogging about it will not get you the information you are looking for.
Diablo II
The game came out 7 years ago and has numerous patches. Look at what they do on WoW during an update. Once in a while something new and exciting but usually just fix bugs. So dont make it seem like WoW is making gaming history by creating NEW STUFF every week. They simply are not. To say that they are is a lie and maybe a subconscious way of making yourself feel better for spending 15 bucks a month.
WoW numbers:
Blizz is making over 1billion dollars a year off of your monthly subscriptions. Look at how many people are playing, then multiply that number by 15. I know it may be difficult but try it the numbers are out there just takes a little research. Now since many of you do not know just how much a billion is ill try to explain it to you. 1 million seconds is about 11.5 days...to where 1 billion seconds is about 31.7 YEARS. No one can tell me that pay roll, business expenses, RnD, and actual Programming and integration is costing any where near that amount. Where do you think that they came up with the money to make the D3 and where do you think that they will get the money to update it and keep it running smooth. Diablo is kinda like the Corvett. Chevy makes little to NO money of of it each year, however it is A BIG DEAL so they keep it around because they are not really loosing money off it, they are just not making much. And it does not matter if they dont make much because their sales off of other vehicles carries it. Again the numbers are out there, look it up.
SUMMARY:
Crying about things is as effective as attempting to understand a story by sleeping with the book and never reading it. Actions speak louder than words...getting any of this...you are not in control so if there is a fee then for some reason people will be happy and others will not to where the adverse is true as well.
""However, every time you are caught using a hack, cheat, or exploit they raise that price 5 dollars. It would be a incentive not to cheat because it would start effecting the wallet."" -Murderotica
Can you be anymore retarded? If they are paying 15$ to play a game they are going to hack, and they get another 5 dollars a month. I would personally never play a game that supports hacking,cheating methods. Cheaters/Hackers Get one mistake to me personally, Everyone is allowed one stupid moment. But That's all.
You sir.
Are a Moron
As well, age doesn't necessarily determine maturity level.!!!
I mean, i'd rather be playing with a person who says SHIT it's 3 am I have school at 8 I have to go to bed, etc.
Then someone who says, OH I Have TO go, My Wife's Home etc.
That's just personal preference though.
D3 is not the same type of game as WoW. An MMO costs around 50-100 times that of what an RPG costs. Think about it, Funcom spend 5 billion on AoC, and it is as incomplete as shit.
WoW and D3 are on completly different scales. WoW before the expansion had about ten times the content that Diablo 1, 2, and LoD had combined. The world is bigger! More instances in WoW then there are zones in Diablo 1 thruogh LoD, Battlegrounds, Guilds, 1000x more quests, more art (Races, armor types etc), more classes with more skills, harder bosses etc..
The average console game costs around 20-30 million to develope (same as CPU Fps, Rpg, Horror etc.).
They Spent 5 Billion on AOC?
hmmmmmm
not sure i'm going to believe you there
xD
too true bratha! kids dont have anything to worry about. and kids just sometimes use their parents to pay.
lol if you have to save 15/month so you can afford the bills then you probably shouldn't even put the down the upfront cost of the game, or buy the "newer" computer you will need to run it, in fact maybe you should upgrade your trailer first.
No wonder the graphics are so shit, I can imagine the piece of crap computers the people who can't afford $5 p/month have, that blizzard have to accommodate.
There is always Xbox 360/PS3 Consoles, which are Cheap and very Powerful & MORE ideal these days!
Blizzard just have to port to those, if they want EVERYBODY to experience the BEST graphics!
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Blizzard, please put back the single player offline mode!
additionally, the fact that this post is about "keeping the kiddies out" is just stupid. kids can play the game, fine whatever its going to happen. Let's remember, this is a VIDEO game.
what the post should be focused on is quality control. D2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but if you refused to use cheats or dupes your character was pretty much useless, and lets not forget how bad it ruined the D2 in-game economy.
games without monthly fees do not have lasting quality control and there are no admins to report hackers or cheaters to that can take immediate action on a situation before a real problem arises.
Your telling me you can not make or save 15 bucks a month to pay for it? I find that hard to believe for anyone. Millions of people are able to find way to play WoW. Where there is a will there is a way.
Many of us are currently unemployed too! Think that shit Sherlock! I've applied everywhere, even McDonalds and at the moment I would never be able to Pay to Play. No fucking way. And besides, it's not a fucking MMO! It's a fucking RPG that has one story and won't expand. Go play your WoW.
The whole "NO KIDS IN MY DIABLO RARRR" is the same retarded mindset that led to "NO WOW IN MY DIABLO RARRR".
Unless you're 45 or something, you were most likely a teenager when either Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 came out. No, don't give me that 'but I was a MATURE teenager!' bullshit. Shut up, you were a teenager. I know I was about 12 when D2 came out, and I know I played it like crazy. To deny teens today that same experience just because you 'don't want no kids to be messin up mah game' would be essentially spitting on the teenage gamer years that you enjoyed.
Grow up, and don't be a selfish little asshat with an elitist personality.
Once again, I wish I could reach through the internet and punch some of you punks in the face.
Maybe for every month you are subscribed to playing diablo3 with the monthly fee Blizzard will send you a gas card that will shave off $0.05 cents a gallon. No, thats kinda horrible.
However, what about having the availabilty to subscribe and that allows faster leveling or the availability to respec... who knows. Then again such a feature will divide the Diablo3 players into another scenario of haves and havenots. Many "free" mmo games have this feature and you can play without paying but the system always feels to be built for the ones that do pay. Thoughts?
maybe there will be like an online shop for some unigue items? for the monthly fee u get cash or some form of credit that u can use for the shop (like xp boosters, summoning spells and many more) i've seen MMOs (dont cry or scream at me about it i kno D3 wont be a large scale MMO) who have this, but i dont pay
montlhy fee would almost completely kill diablo for brazilian fans
i dont have any statistics, but im prretty sure we have the larges Thrid-world fanbase
Asking to pay money to play a game........i should slap you...honestly what retard thinks that making people pay will make for a better gaming experience.....seriously go slap yourself
no monthly fees:
guild wars - numerous hacks cheats dupes
wcIII: - maphack, makes it very unfair for legit players
SC: see above
D2: maphack, dupes, item pickers - ruins economy and entire game.
monthly fee:
WoW: virtually no hacks, some bots (typical botted accts banned within 3 days)
now ask yourself, is WoW still clean b/c its an mmo or b/c there is a monthly fee and the associated 24/7 support that comes along with that.
/vote for p2p for d3 so I can play the game for longer than 4 months before its ruined.
There are plenty of cheats/short-cuts in WoW. Coord programs which is basically a maphack by giving exact locations....item pickers is like ninja in WoW.... paying or not, theres going to be hacks. I guess it just depends on ones personal threshold of tolerance towards hacks. For me the hacks and etc in D2 didnt blow my fun time or breakdown the economy.
ESRB and montly fees have no impact on who plays the game.
Parents will still make purchases to shut their kids up...or to make them happy even if its not what is sujested by some department we did not elect...
BATTLE.NET
Battle.net has never required a fee, however that is not to say that they will not. Until there is official word no one will know. Blogging about it will not get you the information you are looking for.
Diablo II
The game came out 7 years ago and has numerous patches. Look at what they do on WoW during an update. Once in a while something new and exciting but usually just fix bugs. So dont make it seem like WoW is making gaming history by creating NEW STUFF every week. They simply are not. To say that they are is a lie and maybe a subconscious way of making yourself feel better for spending 15 bucks a month.
WoW numbers:
Blizz is making over 1billion dollars a year off of your monthly subscriptions. Look at how many people are playing, then multiply that number by 15. I know it may be difficult but try it the numbers are out there just takes a little research. Now since many of you do not know just how much a billion is ill try to explain it to you. 1 million seconds is about 11.5 days...to where 1 billion seconds is about 31.7 YEARS. No one can tell me that pay roll, business expenses, RnD, and actual Programming and integration is costing any where near that amount. Where do you think that they came up with the money to make the D3 and where do you think that they will get the money to update it and keep it running smooth. Diablo is kinda like the Corvett. Chevy makes little to NO money of of it each year, however it is A BIG DEAL so they keep it around because they are not really loosing money off it, they are just not making much. And it does not matter if they dont make much because their sales off of other vehicles carries it. Again the numbers are out there, look it up.
SUMMARY:
Crying about things is as effective as attempting to understand a story by sleeping with the book and never reading it. Actions speak louder than words...getting any of this...you are not in control so if there is a fee then for some reason people will be happy and others will not to where the adverse is true as well.
+57087512484.
Amazing post.
Can you be anymore retarded? If they are paying 15$ to play a game they are going to hack, and they get another 5 dollars a month. I would personally never play a game that supports hacking,cheating methods. Cheaters/Hackers Get one mistake to me personally, Everyone is allowed one stupid moment. But That's all.
You sir.
Are a Moron
As well, age doesn't necessarily determine maturity level.!!!
I mean, i'd rather be playing with a person who says SHIT it's 3 am I have school at 8 I have to go to bed, etc.
Then someone who says, OH I Have TO go, My Wife's Home etc.
That's just personal preference though.
They Spent 5 Billion on AOC?
hmmmmmm
not sure i'm going to believe you there
xD
lol if you have to save 15/month so you can afford the bills then you probably shouldn't even put the down the upfront cost of the game, or buy the "newer" computer you will need to run it, in fact maybe you should upgrade your trailer first.
There is always Xbox 360/PS3 Consoles, which are Cheap and very Powerful & MORE ideal these days!
Blizzard just have to port to those, if they want EVERYBODY to experience the BEST graphics!
what the post should be focused on is quality control. D2 is one of my favorite games of all time, but if you refused to use cheats or dupes your character was pretty much useless, and lets not forget how bad it ruined the D2 in-game economy.
games without monthly fees do not have lasting quality control and there are no admins to report hackers or cheaters to that can take immediate action on a situation before a real problem arises.
Many of us are currently unemployed too! Think that shit Sherlock! I've applied everywhere, even McDonalds and at the moment I would never be able to Pay to Play. No fucking way. And besides, it's not a fucking MMO! It's a fucking RPG that has one story and won't expand. Go play your WoW.
Unless you're 45 or something, you were most likely a teenager when either Diablo 1 or Diablo 2 came out. No, don't give me that 'but I was a MATURE teenager!' bullshit. Shut up, you were a teenager. I know I was about 12 when D2 came out, and I know I played it like crazy. To deny teens today that same experience just because you 'don't want no kids to be messin up mah game' would be essentially spitting on the teenage gamer years that you enjoyed.
Grow up, and don't be a selfish little asshat with an elitist personality.
Once again, I wish I could reach through the internet and punch some of you punks in the face.
maybe there will be like an online shop for some unigue items? for the monthly fee u get cash or some form of credit that u can use for the shop (like xp boosters, summoning spells and many more) i've seen MMOs (dont cry or scream at me about it i kno D3 wont be a large scale MMO) who have this, but i dont pay
Thank you good sir.
Also, did you mention making it P2P would keep the kiddies out?
I would say that kids are ATLEAST one-third of the Diablo community.
Why would Blizzard do that?
The only reason I don't play WoW is because it's p2p. So if D3 was, I'm willing to say I wouldn't pay up.
i dont have any statistics, but im prretty sure we have the larges Thrid-world fanbase
hell it's annoying, my friend. who wants P2P? unless yur a greedy moron who spent so much money on things, you just wanna keep paying
Blizz isnt good at making console games, Like Starcraft ghost
guild wars - numerous hacks cheats dupes
wcIII: - maphack, makes it very unfair for legit players
SC: see above
D2: maphack, dupes, item pickers - ruins economy and entire game.
monthly fee:
WoW: virtually no hacks, some bots (typical botted accts banned within 3 days)
now ask yourself, is WoW still clean b/c its an mmo or b/c there is a monthly fee and the associated 24/7 support that comes along with that.
/vote for p2p for d3 so I can play the game for longer than 4 months before its ruined.