Blizzard Entertainment Interview

Category: News Archive

Hits: 1190

Written by BuckGB on August 17th, 2009

Tweet

So, will Battle.net be completely free to play, or have fees/microtransactions?

Pardo answered the question by saying Blizzard is still finalizing that. He said: "I know the big question out there is: 'is there going to be a subscription to Battle.net or anything like that', and we're certainly not doing that for StarCraft 2." Blizzard's approach on business model for a game is to do 'what's right for the game'." Monthly fees on World of WarCraft might be a hit, but not necessarily so for StarCraft II "because it's an entirely different sort of a game."

More information will be released in the future. "I don't want to put the scare out there that it's somehow subscription based because we're not gonna do that," he clarified even further.

Battle.net might possibly have smaller "microtransactions", however, as "value-added services." Pardo did not give any examples on how this could work on Battle.net, only referring to WoW's character name changes and the like.

• Prev
• Next