Quote (romanceisdead @ Tue, Feb 19 2008, 10:33am)
if they make people pay for diablo it will ruin the point of the game and alot of people wont even buy it.
People said that no one would jump ship from Diablo to WoW as well. No one said WoW was going to out-perform what EQ had done. Everyone hated Blizzard when they delayed WoW.
Despite the hate, it's generating MASSIVE amounts of revenue for that company, and over 10-million subscribe to it monthly.
If they brought out Diablo Online, they would have ANOTHER of their biggest franchises requiring monthly fees. Gamers who didn't want World of Warcraft and who wanted World of Diablo would crawl out from their Baal runs. It would be brilliant in terms of business. Anyone that didn't buy WoW would probably be drawn to the allure of Diablo Online. Not to mention, they took a strategy game's lore, and turned it into an MMO.
What could they do with one of the biggest RPGs ever?
Sky's the limit if you ask me.