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On Nov 9, 11:31 am, "CymTyr" <cym...@nospam.com> wrote:
> "Mark Morrison" <bl...@aol.com> wrote in message
>
> news:tu1if41mf22qqiie8kur2n62cusjcpoaak@4ax.com...
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> > It all comes down to value for money - Hellgate was screwed from the
> > start, as what you got for your money was fine, but they immediately
> > gave a lot of that stuff for free to the non-subs.
>
> This was indeed a huge problem. Some of us bought lifetime subs for HG:L to
> support the fledgling company only to find that increasingly with each patch
> more and more of our "goodies" were being given away for free to entice more
> people to sub.  I paid $150 for lifetime sub and got exactly >one< content
> update the whole time.  So yes, I'm pretty upset with Roper atm.
>
>
>
> > And when you unsubbed, you lost the ability to use the sub-only items
> > you'd just found.
>
> Had the lifetime so this wasn't an issue for me, but I can see it being an
> issue for people who dropped subs because it really wasn't worth $10 a
> month, and I'm being totally honest here.
>
>
>
> > I'd imagine Blizzard will put more thought into it, but I can't see
> > what they'd offer for Diablo 2, for subscribers - bigger stash ?
>
> > I can only assume that they're testing the waters for Diablo 3
> > pay-for-online-play.
>
> I think they're being a bit greedy with this one.  They're releasing
> Starcraft 2 as 3 separate games supposedly to better tell the story (yeah
> tell us another), and they're probably turning b.net into p2p.  This amounts
> to increased revenue for them, as if they don't get enough from WoW.
>
> I'm actually pretty disappointed in Blizzard.  I'm still getting D3 but I
> won't pay to play online.  As far as the two separate mmos they are
> developing, if one of them is related to Diablo I'll look into it, but I'm
> not getting it just because it's a Blizzard product.
>
> Saying that, the one thing they do do for you is if you have prepaid time on
> your WoW account you can call and have them suspend it till you come back to
> WoW.  So some things they will do for you...
>
> Anyway just my 2 copper,

I have a feeling that D3 will NOT be pay to play. I think blizzard
understands that a VERY large section of their Diablo community is
14-18 years old and plays only to duel each other. These types will
not be able to afford pay to play, and to date, Blizzard has never
needed P2P to make money off Diablo. Dispite the success of WoW,
Diablo is still the company's flagship product.

Mickey