How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

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Mao

Diabloii.Net Member
How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

I did a quick search on forum and did not find similar thread (I could be wrong).

How much are you willing to pay on a monthly basis, to play D3 on B.net? I have a good feeling that, after much success with the fee system implemented in WoW, Blizzard won't just let us off with a one-time buy and play forever like D2.

Suppose Blizzard implemented some ways of making us pay on a monthly basis, how much will you go for?
 
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sicilian

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

For one thing, the "fee system" was not invented by Blizzard. It has been a staple of MMO's for years. That being said, D3 is NOT an MMO. Therefore, I would likely be willing to pay nothing monthly to play it. If I see the finished product, and there is enough new content to justify a fee, sure. But I highly doubt they will achieve that in a hack and slash ARPG.

Micro transactions for Battle.net add-ons, sure. Monthly fee? We better get a whole lot more additional content than we did in D2.
 
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qOcOp

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Game will not have a monthly fee. but fans r going to pay at least 150 for the game.

im guessing around 60 bucks at release, and here are gonna be a few expansions so add that. yeah. pay to play is usually a mmo concept
 
Mad Mantis

Mad Mantis

D2/3 Necromancer & Witch Doctor Moderator
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Mao said:
I did a quick search on forum and did not find similar thread (I could be wrong).
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There is a huge thread on this. Several were made in fact.



 
Krugar

Krugar

Banned
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

I never did, don't, or will ever play on b.net. This means I'm a single player. (I'm actually married for 15 years and do have a adulterous relationship with computer games, my wife is not always happy about. But they decided to call it single player, so single player it is.)

So, with a single-player element to a game like Diablo 3, how exactly could Blizzard convince players for more than a few months (when the novelty of the thing allows for all manner of abuse) to pay a fee every single month in order to play it? The answer, I'll risk, is they couldn't.

There won't be any fee. Diablo 3 is not a MMO. And there is yet to be known if indeed LAN play will or not be implemented. My guess is it will... or it will annoy a very big group of players.
 
Pyrohemia

Pyrohemia

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

I would gladly buy as many expansions as blizzard wants to make, but I won't be playing online if there is a monthly fee.
 
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Telzen

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

I'd pay $5 a month if it meant we always had great servers and quick responses to bots and hacks. Though they already said they aren't going to do this.
 
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SlechtWeerBeer

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Telzen said:
I'd pay $5 a month if it meant we always had great servers and quick responses to bots and hacks. Though they already said they aren't going to do this.
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P2P isn't necessary for that. See also: GuildWars.


 
ThomasJ

ThomasJ

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

I'm still not understanding why people think we will be paying a monthly fee for Diablo 3. Many moons ago they did not charge us for the game nor did they charge us for Bnet services either. It was a huge success not to charge before and I don't see why they would now.
 
Krugar

Krugar

Banned
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Well, in my opinion WoW massified the concept more than ever before and players expectations changed.

I'm in fact a little worried when I hear people defending paying a fee to have hack free and stable servers. When we start openly advertising our willingness to pay for such a thing, we are taking that responsibility away from the companies, when in fact that is their primary task -- to provide customers with a fair and stable playing environment. Anything less is bad customer service.

On the other hand those saying they are willing to pay and who will actually pay for them to play are often not the same person. So another reason in my opinion is a certain detachment that comes with the fact ultimately it's daddy the one paying the bills. Not even mentioning the large number of banned accounts over canceled CC payments every MMO faces since the dawn of times.
 
ThomasJ

ThomasJ

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Krugar said:
Well, in my opinion WoW massified the concept more than ever before and players expectations changed.

I'm in fact a little worried when I hear people defending paying a fee to have hack free and stable servers. When we start openly advertising our willingness to pay for such a thing, we are taking that responsibility away from the companies, when in fact that is their primary task -- to provide customers with a fair and stable playing environment. Anything less is bad customer service.

On the other hand those saying they are willing to pay and who will actually pay for them to play are often not the same person. So another reason in my opinion is a certain detachment that comes with the fact ultimately it's daddy the one paying the bills. Not even mentioning the large number of banned accounts over canceled CC payments every MMO faces since the dawn of times.
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I agree about what you say but Blizzard hasn't said anything that has lead us to believe that they are going to charge for D3. I have no issues with paying as long as I get content updates along with expansions.


 
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ZeroSkin

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

You people are deluded. Economically speaking, a monthly fee pricing plan works for any game that has hundreds of hours of playability value. Diablo 3 will fall into this category of games. Regardless of how Diablo 2 was priced, Blizzard has found monthly fees for online gaming much to their liking - WOW brings unprecedented revenue to the company. My guess is that the new battle.net will include monthly fees in some regard, whether they are for playing the game at all, or taking advantage of special benefits within the online community. I personally will pay $15 a month for a battle.net account to play both Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 with full benefits.
 
Raging_Zealot

Raging_Zealot

Diablo: IncGamers Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Pyrohemia said:
I would gladly buy as many expansions as blizzard wants to make, but I won't be playing online if there is a monthly fee.
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That's how I stand too. At least this way we get to choose if the new expansion content is worth it to us as well.



 
Daedrith

Daedrith

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

They may have found it to there liking, but they know better than to put a monthly fee on a game like Diablo. You also have to remember that they are working on their next-gen MMO already, which I'd assume will eventually take the place of WoW as their cash-maker (if it doesn't flop, which, given their track record, I doubt it will). And they always release expansions, which I will gladly buy.

If Blizzard charges a monthly fee for either D3 online or SC2 online I will most likely simply stop supporting their games and just use hamachi to play with friends over the net. Cruel, yes, but seriously, that would be ridiculous.

All that said, assuming they DON'T have a monthly fee, I plan on buying Collector's Editions of all blizz games from now on. Especially Diablo. They have very collectable games and have earned their place in on the shelf imo. :)
 
Demetrium

Demetrium

Diabloii.Net Member
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Krugar said:
When we start openly advertising our willingness to pay for such a thing, we are taking that responsibility away from the companies, when in fact that is their primary task -- to provide customers with a fair and stable playing environment. Anything less is bad customer service.
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It costs money to make games. It also costs money to support them.

If D3 costs x dollars to make, it takes y amount of copies sold to make the game profitable. If the game is not profitable through sales volume alone, there will be a monthly fee. I don't think this will be the case, but its a possible case nonetheless.

A multiplayer game like D3 (I know that you only play single player, its your prerogative, but I hope you do realize you're buying a game that is predominately used for multiplayer) takes a lot of time and resources to support. I'm very curious how much of D2's profit was eaten up due to the fact they've supported the game for like eight years. Regardless, if it's going to cost them a lot of money to support it, they will need regular income to fund said support.



 
Krugar

Krugar

Banned
Re: How much are you willing to pay to play D3?

Demetrium, companies have historically been providing online environments for their games since the around the mid 90s to this date. These environments, of which Diablo is one example, have traditionally been free. And yet, the gaming industry is one of the wealthiest industries in the world. http://www.theesa.com/facts/econdata.asp

It was games like Diablo and Warcraft RTS that made Blizzard, payed the development of WoW and supported initial investment in servers, server warehouses and the rest of the whole infrastructure which WoW depends on. Blizzard was already a giant of the gaming industry before WoW turned up. And yet, not a dime was asked of their players to play online.

Sales reports and yearly revenues of gaming companies are among some of the highest in the area of consumer-based business. The huge quantities of money are astounding and have always make these companies leapfrog the ladder of success every single year. Make no mistake, gaming companies are healthy and are recommended.

Do reconsider your idea that gaming companies need a monthly fee to support the cost of games like Diablo and the infrastructure around them.
 
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