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>
> You are all going about this 'questioning of blizzard' the wrong way,
> none of you seem to have the slightest clue as to how the current
> Battle.net servers work (by the way, they are not owned nor are paid
> for by Blizzard Entertainment whatsoever).
>
> WoW will be (once released) will be Blizzard's newest cash-cow, and if
> they were to allow WoW users on the freebased Battle.net it would
> possiblely crash the whole network. Think about it right now there are
> more than 150,000 people using all 6 realms, put another 250,000 on
> top of that and you have yourself one hell of a bill of bandwidth for
> AT&T, Tesila and the other companys that provide the servers for
> Battle.net.
>
> As for this :
>
> >>So what does everyone else think? Do
> >> think WoW should be free and possibly ask for donations to play online
or
> >> should they have a flat monthly fee whether you play the game once a
month
> >> or 24-7?
> >
> > Who cares what we think. Blizzard is a company. They want cash. They'll
go
> >for the best way of getting it.
>
> Donations ?  Right, and how many people do you think have that kind of
> cash to 'donate' ? Most people (average wage earners) can only just
> get away with buying 1 PC game every couple of months add that to the
> cost of average internet access and your already down the tubes.
>
> Also, Blizzard is a company, it doesn't 'want cash', they get all the
> money they need from Vivendi Universal (their parent company).
>
> Some people have gotten it easy up to here, however that time will
> soon run out.
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