So Julian Wilson told us that you guys are looking monetize Battle.Net in some way. Is that right?
Rob Pardo: Wow, that's an evil way of putting it. Julian's turning into a business guy on me. Here's the way I would put it. We're definitely not looking at turning Diablo into a subscription based game. It's clearly not an MMO, so it's not appropriate to do a business model like that. The way we approach all of our games now, is we come up with what we think is a great game, and then we wrap the appropriate business model around it. If that's just a box price, then that's that.
With Battle.Net we're definitely looking at possible different features that we might be able to do for additional money. We're not talking about Hellgate or anything like that. We're not going to tack things on. I think World of Warcraft is a great example to look at. We charge people if they want to switch servers or if they want name changes, things that aren't core to the game experience, they're really just optional things that some people want. It takes us some development work to do it, so it makes sense to charge for it. We would never do something like say to get the full game experience, you'll have to pay extra.
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Basically -- No P2P, and no microtransactions for actual things in the game
SOURCE:
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High Definition Cinematic Teaser:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35667.html?type=
High Definition Gameplay Trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35674.html
High Definition Artwork Trailer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35666.html?type=
Diablo III: Game Design Panel:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/235319.html
Diblo III: Story and Art Panel:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/235105.html
Diablo III: Denizen's of Diablo Panel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWxYlWitpUk (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXurH2JFunc&feature=related (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6LhGxcdQpU&feature=related (Part 3)
Diablo III Interviews:
Keith Lee-
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/235119.html
Rob Pardo-
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/235058.html
Diablo III Q and A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1VVwg9YpzE&watch_response
Other:
Barbarian Gameplay-
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35678.html (Cleave)
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35677.html (Groundstomp)
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35670.html (Whirlwind)
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35669.html (Seismic Slam)
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35668.html (Leap)
Witch Doctor Gameplay-
http://www.wegame.com/watch/Diablo_3_Gameplay_6_29_08/
Diablo Gameplay Evolution (High Definition)-
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35766.html?type=
Diablo III Review / Preview-
http://www.wegame.com/watch/Diablo_3_Preview/
If anyone wants to see the video of when they actually announced it-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PQk_CT7fY9E
Let me know if i missed anything, ill add it.