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08/06/09
Just swallow your pride, people, and move development over to Steam. You KNOW it's better. Don't fight it, accept it.
08/05/09
Although, considering that "Xbox Live" is kind of a buzzword for "good online" in today's gaming climate, I wouldn't be surprised if Bobby Kotick were just spewing marketing-speak.
08/05/09
No such thing as a free lunch in this world.
Same as xbox live , you have to paid a monthly fee, just to play with other players.
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As far as that goes, I don't think it will be a pay-to-use service, or if it is, they will hopefully tie that in with your World of Warcraft subscription. I wouldn't disagree if certain premium features require you to pay, but this should be worth the cost, and like I said earlier, it would be nice if they would allow your World of Warcraft account to double as a premium Battle.net account.
08/05/09
Either the game is released without enough features, and people would complain that it's just milking the customers.
It could be released with too many features, and they're useless or it's clearly a ploy to steal your money.
It's a wonder any game company does anything for their 'fans'.
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Don't know if you kept up-to-date but LAN play has been taken out of SC2.
I blame this all on activision.
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And "Bobby Kotick says the cross-game service will be "similar to Xbox Live,"" never bodes well. Cos one thing I know about XBL is the yearly fee. And one thing IU know about Boby Kotick is he likes his shiny dollars. So which parts of XBL is he gonna pull inspiration from?
08/05/09
Maybe I'm just in a worried mood today.
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They will surely be repaid handsomely after its release. With Blizzards track record, I dought Activision would want to bring a bad name to the developer for a quick buck, as it may mean less sales/money in the future.
08/05/09
See? I'm still laughing.
Activision had free reign of the Tony Hawk series, which, at one point, was critically acclaimed, and a mega-blockbuster. Look what they did to it.
Activision managed to buy complete control of the Guitar Hero series from Harmonix. Look at what they did to it.
Activision couldn't get Infinity Ward to release Call of Duty games fast enough, so they were willing to hire a crappier developer to put out games in-between the "official" ones, diluting the franchise, simply for a quick buck.
Now, tell me again- do you think Activision wouldn't do it to Blizzard?
08/05/09
Src: [en.wikipedia.org]
08/05/09
Destroying Blizzards reputation will lose them more money in the long run than they gain in the short run. Blizzard has very loyal fans and destroying one of Blizzards franchises does not seem viable for them monetarily. Not to mention, they obviously aren't making Blizzard rush it out because it wouldn't be delayed as we speak. So no, I dont think Activision will do that to Blizzard. At the Least, not SC2 or WoW.
08/05/09
If you support one company, then the rest will try the same scheme, and then it will become the norm, no matter how crappy/good the service. I for one, am opposed to that.
If it's free sign me up NOW!
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Oh god, oh GOD no! Double subscriptions!? Well Activision have been showing their evil side ...
@Arc-: Dude, those were the days. I think I've started around 10 different Battle.net characters over the time I have owned Diablo II.
True about the servers always being packed.
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...actually I don't see the point of having anything signed now that I think about it, except maybe the price you could get for it at e-bay
11/10/08
I was clean for about 4 months, June-September of last year, after having played since September of the year before. Then played it again to two months to see if I was missing out on anything. I wasn't.
I just don't have any desire left to play the game. Probably because most people I ever talk about it with IRL are completely rabid and make me not want to play (see:fanboy, even if they are nice about it) ever again.
And yknow, its not even the money thing that is stopping me from playing. It cost me less money to be addicted to WoW than it does to be addicted to my xbox and playstation. I just lost the desire to play somewhere, and Im in no mood to go looking for it again.