In the Future BattleNet will Cost Money

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Khuutra said:

dgm6780 said:
I'll believe it when i see it. what other games would take advantage of battle.net other then Starcraft 2? Do people still play Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 1 in big numbers?

Yes. God yes. Go log into Bnet on The Frozen Throne sometime, it'll scare you spitless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle.net#Growth_history

By September 2004, their active user count was up to nearly 12 million, spending more than 2.1 million hours online each day, and they had an average of 200,000 concurrent users, with a peak concurrent user count of 400,000.

 

12 million users in 2004.  XBox Live got 12 million users in 2008.  B-Net is way ahead, and is the largest online gaming community ever.

 

This is why I don't believe it will cost money.