As a non-mmorpg-er (uh, yeah.. that made sense..), aka not a WoW player, I hate monthly fees. Hate them. No one likes them, because they feel like bills, like taxes. But, the sad truth is, some things are worth paying for. That is, surely, the only reason I pay for XBox Live Gold Account - I have so many Halo Montage moments!!
Anyways, sc2blog.com has concluded its extensive poll on whether a monthly fee should be placed on the SCII multiplayer experience.
Naturally, Blizzard and Vivendi Games have been considering it. the widespread success of the program for WoW has turned it into one of the most lucrative franchises in history. But would it work for the Stacraft community? SC2blog asked their readers to make the job easy for their heroes at Blizzard by taking a poll of their most loyal fans - the ones that read every Q&A session, play on the beta test servers, and buy anything that they can get their grubby hands on that shares that cool logo they know and love. These are the results (chart taken from SC2blog):
The imaged is linked to larger results. To summarize, the big blue 72% stands for all the useres who polled they couldn't or wouldn't pay a monthly fee for SCII. Well, there's your answer, Blizzard! We like the free Battle.net tool that set the standard for free and simple online play with friends. The next largest chunk, at 14%, suggests instead a large one time fee.
personally, I don't think a fee would keep me away from the game, but I agree with the 74% of fans when I say that games should be made for the gamers, and let's face it: we're all mostly 12 year olds or poor college kids these days, so cut us a break. I garuntee you, you WILL sell lots of your masterpeice sequel.
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