Why is it not a good idea? Please, explain your opinion.

You'd be surprised at how many fans they'd lose if they made it P2P.
And you'd be surprised at how many bots etc. will still be running around.
There's no point for it.

And also because they already said it won't be P2P.
Don't know why people are still saying it is.

This post was edited by Boogersnot308 on Nov 16 2010 01:58pm

Wrong.Ive played WOW, DAOC,WARHAMMER ONLINE, AION, EVERCRACK. Thats just the ones that i was competitive at. Ive played more but not on a hardcore basis. Tell me this, do you think WOW has better support then diablo 2? When i join diablo 2 I get 10 pages of spam and tells from farm sites saying to buy shit... come on.... Sure WOW has gold farmers but no game will be 100% problem free.

It should be P2P, but it won't. Oh well, still can't wait for it to come out.

Last time I checked, before the production of D3, D2 had live in-channel support, right?
Let me know if they didn't.

0% chance*
sure other games from blizzard is p2p, but
1: blizzard specifically said it wouldnt be p2p
2: diablo #1 wasnt p2p, why would the sequels be p2p?
3: you already pay to buy the game, why pay to play the game? we dont need another WoW

me and a lot of people agree that p2p is bullshit, and diablo wasnt meant for people to pay for it more than once
it would lose a lot of people (poor people or people who use their money wisely) and diablo is already a small enough game.

15 x 12 = 180$ a year... 1800$ every 10 years...

This post was edited by bark334 on Nov 16 2010 06:55pm

no

I just don't see how it won't require a monthly fee. We shall see.

I still actively play D2 and I've never seen these 10 pages of spam, which I just assume is a slight exaggeration. There are many different ways to get around the spam. Avoiding the public channels and setting level restrictions for games generally takes care of the problem. Yes, I have made games with level 1 characters that had no spam bots join at all simply because of level restrictions. Don't ask me why it seems to keep them out when I set it with a level 1 character, it just does. Look at D2, though. Spammers. That's basically it. In WoW you have the spammers, the hackers that aid the spammers by messing with the physics, a 4 - 5 day wait for customer service for simple issues, and uninformative (or just plain dumb) customer service reps that can't actually help you with your problems. For D2, I've never encountered a problem that couldn't be solved simply by taking 5 minutes of my own time to look the answers up on the help site. I'll take "10 pages" of spam over the hundreds of scam attempts any day. Seriously, why would you want to pay to play a game that's already listed is free to play? That's investing in something that has 0 return and a constant threat of being hacked and losing everything you payed so much to obtain, unless you pay even more money for the security that should have been provided in the first place. Yes, D2 accounts still get hacked, but there's no monetary investment in those accounts (which you can make an infinite number of anyway). Besides, there's only going to be 3 - 4 characters per game anyway. Bump it to 40 or 50 at least and you might have a valid point

Wall o' text ftw!

This post was edited by Sverak on Nov 17 2010 08:32am

When it all comes down to it.
They said there won't be.
That's that. O_o