Originally posted by: Emultra
My concern is, why would Blizzard willingly sit by and watch as a good amount of people migrate from WoW to the non-subscription based D3 without doing something about it?
All previous Blizzard games were released without WoW on the scene.
Originally posted by: Emultra
My concern is, why would Blizzard willingly sit by and watch as a good amount of people migrate from WoW to the non-subscription based D3 without doing something about it?
All previous Blizzard games were released without WoW on the scene.
Originally posted by: newb111
I would much rather they put ads in than microtransactions or monthly payments.
Originally posted by: I4AT
There's already ads for more than just Blizzard products on Bnet, as long as it's just a banner I'm not too worried. There's ads all over AT as we speak... that's the nature of the internet.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Molondo
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Guys, Battle.net is a large chatroom segmented into smaller chatrooms with programming to link players based on specified criteria. Its bandwidth costs cannot be that high. Packets exchanged between players do not go through Battle.net's servers, once the game has started, the bandwidth costs are entirely on you and other players in the game. And the packets shouldn't be consuming much bandwidth either, KBs worth.
If Bnet becomes Pay2Play, it'd just be another slap in the face by Blizzard to their customers. Remember, the management at Blizzard has changed, when Vivendi merged with Activision and renamed themselves Activision Blizzard.
I don't ever remmeber being slapped in the face by blizzard.
World of Warcraft.
Could he be referring to the fact that an MMORPG is worth paying a monthly fee for, while dueling 10 times a week for the best gear available, win or lose, is not? :laugh:Originally posted by: ed21x
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Molondo
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Guys, Battle.net is a large chatroom segmented into smaller chatrooms with programming to link players based on specified criteria. Its bandwidth costs cannot be that high. Packets exchanged between players do not go through Battle.net's servers, once the game has started, the bandwidth costs are entirely on you and other players in the game. And the packets shouldn't be consuming much bandwidth either, KBs worth.
If Bnet becomes Pay2Play, it'd just be another slap in the face by Blizzard to their customers. Remember, the management at Blizzard has changed, when Vivendi merged with Activision and renamed themselves Activision Blizzard.
I don't ever remmeber being slapped in the face by blizzard.
World of Warcraft.
In WoW, you're actually having a game that is continuously hosted by Blizzard Servers, so it makes sense that you pay money for the server upkeep. Bnet Starcraft/WC3 has and will always be free because Blizzard is not hosting any games for us.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Guys, Battle.net is a large chatroom segmented into smaller chatrooms with programming to link players based on specified criteria. Its bandwidth costs cannot be that high. Packets exchanged between players do not go through Battle.net's servers, once the game has started, the bandwidth costs are entirely on you and other players in the game. And the packets shouldn't be consuming much bandwidth either, KBs worth.
If Bnet becomes Pay2Play, it'd just be another slap in the face by Blizzard to their customers. Remember, the management at Blizzard has changed, when Vivendi merged with Activision and renamed themselves Activision Blizzard.
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Molondo
I don't ever remmeber being slapped in the face by blizzard.
World of Warcraft.
Clearly the gaming market disagrees with you.
Clearly, the majority of consumers are idiots who shop at Walmart and trample temp security workers.
Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: newb111
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Molondo
I don't ever remmeber being slapped in the face by blizzard.
World of Warcraft.
Clearly the gaming market disagrees with you.
Clearly, the majority of consumers are idiots who shop at Walmart and trample temp security workers.
No, they are people just like you who, but happen to enjoy playing World of Warcraft...
It is pretty clear at this point that you have a grudge against Blizzard and you wish more people shared your feelings on that matter. Tell me..why did you create this thread? Don't just say that you posted it strictly for unbiased informative purposes either because your replies highly suggest otherwise.
Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes! Explanation please, why do you hate blizzard bateluer?
Originally posted by: Dumac
Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes! Explanation please, why do you hate blizzard bateluer?
It's pretty obvious. He hates neo-Blizzard. He hates the Blizzard that came after WoW. The Blizzard that is so focused on WoW, a game he obviously does not enjoy, that they can't make much else. AND when they finally do make something else, they have to make it similar to WoW in ways annoying to him.
Originally posted by: Dumac
Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes! Explanation please, why do you hate blizzard bateluer?
It's pretty obvious. He hates neo-Blizzard. He hates the Blizzard that came after WoW. The Blizzard that is so focused on WoW, a game he obviously does not enjoy, that they can't make much else. AND when they finally do make something else, they have to make it similar to WoW in ways annoying to him.
Originally posted by: Dumac
Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes! Explanation please, why do you hate blizzard bateluer?
It's pretty obvious. He hates neo-Blizzard. He hates the Blizzard that came after WoW. The Blizzard that is so focused on WoW, a game he obviously does not enjoy, that they can't make much else. AND when they finally do make something else, they have to make it similar to WoW in ways annoying to him.
He gives money to the Great Devil, Sony, every month for EQ2. They are one of Blizzard's biggest, yet still badly losing, competitors in the MMORPG market. He feels allegiance to his dark overlord so he badmouths their competitors here quite a bit.Originally posted by: Maximilian
Yes! Explanation please, why do you hate blizzard bateluer?
Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: pontifex
sorry, but that revenue from wow isn't profit. they still need to pay to keep wow running, which i'm willing to bet isn't cheap.
this is 100x preferable than pay2play for bnet. if the ads are "just in a text chat room" then why the fuck are you complaining?
It doesn't cost anywhere near 165M to run an MMO, even one with as many servers as WoW. Even with the most pessimistic estimates, Blizzard would still pull in more than 150M per month in profit on that game.
I'm complaining because I'm stick and tired of publishers slowly destroying electronic gaming.
Originally posted by: Maximilian
Originally posted by: novasatori
how about sc2 shipping in 3 boxes as the first slap in the face
How can you moan about getting 3x the amount of content for starcraft?! They would have to significantly scale back the campaigns to fit it into 1 box in a reasonable amount of time. If you dont like 3x starcraft II's dont buy them.
The game hasn't been released yet, so that's entirely just speculation. It could still be released with a 10 mission campaign.