We hate it to be the �bad news deliverer� but someone have to say it. We just recieved disappointing news from an trusted source after some researches after the BlizzCon 09 and the sad truth is:
As we all know ,Blizzard came up with the idea to make this �great� social network (first guessed are twitter or facebook) and one of the problems is money.This service definetely requires some big buck to be invested and to �solve� this problem Blizzard came up with the brilliant idea � to make monthly �fees� like in World of Warcraft.
So you just have to pay a few dollars to get access to Battle.net 2.0. By the way: they�re also planning the same for Diablo 3 but we already knew this months ago as Blizzard said this on the conference in 2008. That�s not a big surprise because people knew it already in 2008 but always thought that it�ll be avoided by other incomes. That�s why Blizzard didn�t announced it on BlizzCon.Diablo III�s director Jay Wilson recently told an audience at BlizzCon that Blizzard and Activision are looking to make some money with the Battle.Net service.
Jay Wilson:
We are looking to monetize Battle.Net so that we get to keep making these games and updating features. We kind of have to.
The other argument is that Blizzard can 100% avoid piracy with this monthly costs.
There aren�t any further informations about the costs yet but it is supposed to be between 5 and 8 $. Less than World of Warcraft. This was also an answer to the 130,000 Petition Signatures
So when you buy Diablo 3, and Starcraft 2, You have to pay to play it online, goodjob Blizzard, way to alienate your userbase.