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Paying monthly for a single-player game would be great if it was the best single player game ever made. Otherwise, it's a money extortion.

I return!

To those of you who say "I won't pay for 'x' reason":

Pay-to-play games, are, first off, not the same game as when you bought it. WoW has been through 12 patches in almost 2 years of release. The game is far from the same. The game content is about to go up by 75% - Sure, pay for the expansion.

But here's the clincher:

What would you rather do, pay $50 a game that entertains you for two weeks, many times, or pay $15 a month for a rapidly expanding game that one could use an excuse to not go outside?

Your choice, really. I'll stick with my $15 a month option. You can go ahead and spend $200 a month buying games I pay $20 for to rent.

Quote from "AcidReign" »

What about the monthly fee? Many people are discouraged by the fact they have to pay monthly. A new MMO is not necessary to beat out an addiction to a different MMO. All you need is a new, rich, interesting game that doesn't cost monthly, and players will look into it.

I'd pay for WoW over buying Diablo 2 once any day.

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Blizzard doesn't need to make their own VoiP server.

D3 isn't going to make people quit WoW for it. The addiciton factor in WoW beats out w/e you could possibly throw at it besides a better MMO.

MMORPGs do have stories. In fact, the Warcarft storyline IS getting furthered. Just in a mass repeatable way.

Actually, now that I think of it, many events that further the storyline are a once-per-server event.

So i think that making Diablo a MMORPG would create another series, and it would be different from the singleplayer series. I doubt they are going to end the singleplayer part of this game, it would be plainly stupid.

WoW can be massively multiplayer, but there's a humongous solo element to the game. Prior to and even after 60, you spend the majority of your time soloing.

Quote from "kaivman »

[FONT=Verdana]mmm I'm happy with any new news covering either diablo1,2 or 3 atm. Currently the reason why were not seeing much diablo activity is because of Blizzes focus on Warcraft and Wow (mainly Wow).. Sigh.[/FONT']

Yes, because WoW is money. All the Diablos combined (All sales over all years) don't get near the profit figures WoW saw in one year. I think that's a good indicator of success, no?

We'll get Diablo 3 when it's ready, not a second sooner. Blizzard does know what they're doing.

Quote from "DarknessAngel" »

Wow Sux Totally!!!!!

OK, first for grammatical fixing:

"WoW totally sucks!"

Second, There are a good 6 million+ people who'd disagree with the minority of people who say otherwise. Face it folks, this forum has maybe 30-40 people max that say WoW is a bad game.

Third, I like pie.

Quote from "muttonchops" »

Which requires a team to work more hours, which requires more money. I'm willing to pay in order to eliminate hacking.

As they say in the Blizz forums, QFT.

I've had a great time in WoW because hackers are siwftly dealt with (We actually had one banned out in the middle of a WSG match once).

Quick reply. I have a life, ya know.

Did WoW throw away 40% of the Warcraft playerbase?

Nope, it added on a good 200-300%.

They don't need to say it.

If you're announcing a new product as you're about to release another, people are going to get souped for the new one (Consumers like new stuff; That's why each and every EA Sports game is the same with a different name on it) and ignore the other title.

Great. Can you make your avatar/sig something, I dunno, not retarded now?

Stiflingly hot northern NJ.

And boy does it suck.

Quote from name="Elfen Lied" »

d3 should be free, d1 and d2 were and they made shit loads of money.

D1 and D2 were hacked to hell. OK, considering the context, hacked to heaven.

You get the idea.