No Subscription Fees for Battle.net or Diablo III, Hellgate's Failure Used As Reference

Well that sounds good. I am glad it will be a no pay system.

 

I bet the lobby will be riddled with ads, and once you launch they send you to a 15 sec. ad :/.  Still better than a sub.

 

Bahahahahahaha, they paid out Hellgate :p

Awesome!

Good news btw

 

I expect every new game Blizzard puts out that uses Battle.net will have some kind of services that cost money, starting with SC2 and D3. What other reason could they have for "Battle.net 2.0" (or whatever)? As long as they keep it limitted though, I will be fine with it. SC could use some battle.net sponsored tournaments, and Diablo could use bank-type stashes or something so people no longer make mules.

 

that's soooo YES!
Blizzard don't need to take fees when they get all the money they want from WoW-subscribers

Will there be a hub-system as in diablo II?

 

To my knowledge, they're keeping the Battle.net interface relatively streamlined and minimalistic like they do in Warcraft 3. There might be a few more options, of course, like the ability to initiate trades while in the chat lobby, or an interactive ladder and armory profile system. 

Beyond that, I don't see them taking the atrocious path of Hellgate: London's subway stations.  

 

I just hope that expansions and updates keep rolling in unlike the previous diablo games....

 

Sweet as.

 

Thank the heavens for that. Now people can stop worrying about P2P.

 

what's wrong with hellgate's subway stations?
i find them way better than battlenet!
that HGL game is taking a bashing everywhere and people dont seem to realize all the good things that it did right. Granted it has big shortcomings but is it a motive for ignoring all its good sides?
Like, the 3D subjective view... isn't it way better than the isometric one?

 

It's kind of subjective...

The 3d view isn't necessarily better, as many games can pull off the top down view just fine, it's all based on how well the game does it. The 3d aspect isn't what was good about Hellgate, rather it was just something that was different to Diablo (however not different to a whole heap of other games)

Hellgate had many other things it did wrong though, including unkept promises of certain updates, lack of features, many many bugs as well as a lack of a polished story line. The problem was that while it may have had some good features that were actually useful, they were overshadowed by the many bad features, which made no one really care about them long enough to actually appreciate them.