Honestly if Diablo 3 becomes pay to play, I'm going to take all my Blizzard games and put them in a big pile. I'll douse them with zippo fluid, and light them.
I'll then take my Blizzard account with all my cd-keys attached to it and I'll change the email and password to something that I will never remember.
The only game I play from Blizzard anymore is Starcraft 2. I played Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 so obsessively and so much that I just am too tired of them. Starcraft 2 I can live without, though I do enjoy it somewhat. It will just be sad if Starcraft is the only section of their games that is not tainted by pay-to-play. Warcraft 3 isn't, but they've already ruined the Warcraft genre with pay-to-play in general.
With Bnet 2.0 which I dislike and disagree with, and a lot of the features they've added to Starcraft 2 which I think are ridiculous (facebook connectivity, rewards for achieving trivial tasks, still no chat system despite the game being out for so long, etc, etc)... I'll be glad to stop buying Blizzard stuff. But if Diablo 3 is free-to-play past the one-time purchase of the game, I'll be fine with it all. Just wouldn't be able to stand a company that knows a game is going to be pay to play, but doesn't say anything about it until the last minute so they can get all the customers super excited, and try to draw in as many people as possible and hook them before they realize what they're doing; so if it's announced pay-to-play at the last minute, I'll be pissed.
This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Nov 26 2010 04:47pm