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It's not just them wanting to make money, it is the company being ignorant. Why lock the game so only ~60% of the total player base from the original Battle.net servers can play it? That eliminates a HUGE base of players, you wouldn't believe how many people are hanging back on older games, and building private servers just because of the whole DRM crap, and so that people can keep playing. Moving to online only was part of Activisions idea, SC2 was meant for full offline and lan, the system components are there, Blizzard didn't think people would find these parts of the game, exploit them, and build basic Emu servers so easily. I bet Diablo 3 has LAN and Single Player built into the game, but removed ENTIRELY because Activision demanded it. It isn't about capitalism, it is about what that Blizzard CEO said, saying they are seperate companies, Blizzard will do it's own thing, but be under Activisions care. Yea, care, more like an abusive overweight mother trying to guide one of the last GOOD companies.
People wonder why Indie games are becoming so popular? -.-
The moment a company starts to hurt part of the customer base, the other part says to stop crying, eventually blizzard also harms that portion by doing something. It happens constantly, prior to WoW, Blizzard really DID listen to customers, it didn't take international spot light to get rid of the real name requirement in online forums before, but these days it does apparently. So yea, Blizzard has gone in a bad direction, and it isn't just about money to gamers, but how the companies treat them.
People wonder why Indie games are becoming so popular? -.-
The moment a company starts to hurt part of the customer base, the other part says to stop crying, eventually blizzard also harms that portion by doing something. It happens constantly, prior to WoW, Blizzard really DID listen to customers, it didn't take international spot light to get rid of the real name requirement in online forums before, but these days it does apparently. So yea, Blizzard has gone in a bad direction, and it isn't just about money to gamers, but how the companies treat them.