No mention of free battle.net play?

[calories]

Or did I miss it somewhere?

I may come off like a cheap-o here, but a subscription fee could very well turn me off from playing this game.

[Deetox]

I concour.

[Meenah]

It doesn't look like an mmo to me, judging from the top-camera view and if it isn't an MMO, monthly fees would be worthless.

[Kiroptus]

Well I think it will be free. Afterall I guess SC2 on Bnet will be free too right?

The only real restriction that could happen, and I would not care, is to make each cd-key to have only one account.

[Meenah]

Yeah, I agree with Kiro here. I think they know that the diablo playerbase is completely different than WoW and we don't want a Diablo MMO aka pay-to-play.

If you want diablo mmo, then the WoW expansion will be gothic and dark, right for your needs

[Cwicseolfor]

I damnwell better be pay-once.

[Meenah]

I am actually prepared to state that I strongly believe it will NOT be a monthly fee. Why? Scrolling down the official Diablo 3 site I see the Battle.Net logo. As Blizzard themselves does NOT host the battle.net servers, a monthly fee is not likely. For instance, in Europe, the company Telia hosts the Battle.net servers.

[Cwicseolfor]

Perhaps, but Blizzard has said they have not yet decided on the fee structure.

The very fact that there is anything to decide irks me.

[Kev]

i heard battle.net will run the online system again, so most likely free.

[jleezy0]

I think it'd be just like diablo II. Buy the game, use the cd key to acces BNET.
I mean, battle net has never been Pay to play. Warcraft and Starcraft was all just buy the game and play the Bnet. I don't think we'll have to worry about paying monthly subscription fees