I been lurcking around this forum for about a week and finally registered. I just wanted to add my thoughts in about this. Read before you flame please.
There are many reasons I would like there to be a monthly fee, or at least wouldn't mind it.
1. Keep the kiddies out. I am tired of 14 year old punks ruining my gaming experience. With a monthly fee, that is payable by credit card not game card, it would get rid of a lot of immaturity and would result in a better game. The game is rated M for a reason. Go watch your bob the builder and leave the gaming to the adults, thanks.
2. If blizzard plans to regularly update this game like wow, then I don't mind one bit paying for the content. It would give extra money to blizz for new enhancements and whatnot. We were all complaining about how d2 hardly ever got updated. Well, why should they when they have no reason incentive to. Added levels, bosses, items, bug fixes, and world events is way worth the cost to me.
There are many other reason however those are the main two.
Also, something else i thought of. Let say they start out with a fee of 5-10 dollars a month. Thats cheap as hell. 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.
Lastly, to the people who say they they cant afford a monthly payment. Honestly, if you cant afford 15 bucks max a month then you really need to get a better job or something and not play games. Im sorry, but if you are struggling to pay that small ammount of money you have other issues.
Bring your lunch to work 3 days a MONTH and save that money.
Dont spend 19 bucks at the movies and have that money.
Dont buy a case of beer and you can have the money.
If you are responsible with it you can easily find extra money.
Well thats my two cents, flame on.
I'm a new poster as well and I feel compeled to disagree with these sorts of post whenever I see them;
1. The "Kiddies" are a huge source of revenue for Blizzard. They won't be adding costs just to discourage teens from buying the game. Also how many kids do you see running around with cell phones, Ipods, Blackberries etc these days? They (Or their parents) can afford it. Also, 10-15 bucks a month isn't going to discourage poeple with bad attitudes from buying this game...WoW is the perfect example.
2. I don't want this game to be WoW. I don't want to see a game world that is constantly changing. I don't want a million patches that keep "rebalancing" character classes to only, in the end, fail. I want a fairly static world that has a expansion or two then let it wind down and start making diablo 4. The only way I would accept a monthly fee was if it was the one and ONLY way to keep hackers under control. And even then anything over 10 a month would be out of the question.
And to adress your last point, most of us can afford the monthly payment. What you and everyone else who have the same opinions don't seem to understand is that it is the princible of it that bothers most of us. If I pay 60 bucks for the game I want to be able to play what I've just bought...I don't want to have to worry about yet another bill that may put me over the limit. I don't want to have to feel bound to play a game like it's an investment. I don't want to have to keep paying just to keep my characters if I decide to go play some other game for a month or two. There is still a big market of people who don't want to get caught up in pay-for-play games and guess what, a lot of them play diablo 2. If Blizzard decides to make it p4p or, worse yet, if this "New and Improved" battle.net becomes a subscrition service many people are going to leave the Blizzard realm of games for good.
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I'm a new poster as well and I feel compeled to disagree with these sorts of post whenever I see them;
1. The "Kiddies" are a huge source of revenue for Blizzard. They won't be adding costs just to discourage teens from buying the game. Also how many kids do you see running around with cell phones, Ipods, Blackberries etc these days? They (Or their parents) can afford it. Also, 10-15 bucks a month isn't going to discourage poeple with bad attitudes from buying this game...WoW is the perfect example.
2. I don't want this game to be WoW. I don't want to see a game world that is constantly changing. I don't want a million patches that keep "rebalancing" character classes to only, in the end, fail. I want a fairly static world that has a expansion or two then let it wind down and start making diablo 4. The only way I would accept a monthly fee was if it was the one and ONLY way to keep hackers under control. And even then anything over 10 a month would be out of the question.
And to adress your last point, most of us can afford the monthly payment. What you and everyone else who have the same opinions don't seem to understand is that it is the princible of it that bothers most of us. If I pay 60 bucks for the game I want to be able to play what I've just bought...I don't want to have to worry about yet another bill that may put me over the limit. I don't want to have to feel bound to play a game like it's an investment. I don't want to have to keep paying just to keep my characters if I decide to go play some other game for a month or two. There is still a big market of people who don't want to get caught up in pay-for-play games and guess what, a lot of them play diablo 2. If Blizzard decides to make it p4p or, worse yet, if this "New and Improved" battle.net becomes a subscrition service many people are going to leave the Blizzard realm of games for good.