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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.

 - Stephen 'Midnight' Douglas
Shout-Out Gaming Staff
http://www.shoutoutgaming.com

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:08:50 GMT, tom@no.com wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:30:49 +0100, "distant"
><distant5939@hottttttmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"DBD_Sandman" <chris@canddcomputers.com> wrote in message
>>news:bi2m9i$qr8$1@news.gate.net...
>>> Don't it just suck that you will have to pay a monthly subscription fee
>>just
>>> to play World of Warcraft on line. I can see where the company is coming
>>> from since they are providing the servers to play on but why start now
>>with
>>> the best game you have come out with.
>>
>> Surely your best game is the right game to start this policy with.
>>
>Sure but first you have to hand over the starting price, 
>how do you know it doesnt suck ? Magazins ?? Dont be ridiculous.
>
>>>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.
>>
>I once saw a friend playing a game.. camelot something.. he waited for
>a mana refill or similar for 15 minutes doing nothing. What kind of
>game is this ?  As you cant TEST games like this b4, a monthly fee
>would be the only way to go.
>
>And YESS, i will never forget Bethesda Software with Daggerfall.
>Excellent previews, a rpg game released while anything past
>hour 4 wasnt programmed yet. Amazing.
>
>Another isssue is graphics. Ever saw an mmorg with gfx, that doesnt
>complety suck ?
>
>I played Diablo 2 for a very long time, so it will be very expensive
>even without a package price.. if its good.
>
>tom

 - Midnight
Shout-Out Gaming Staff
http://shoutoutgaming.com