@Khuutra

Those must-have-subscription to on-line service to play lan games have been in past circumvented or tricked game to think that you play langame, even though you play with your pals over internet.

What I mean to say is that if people had to make the choice between not playing Starcraft 2 online versus paying for it, many, many, many people will voluntarily choose to pay for it.

Another roadblock to my purchase of Starcraft II. I never would have thought that Blizzard's games could become so unattractive to me. Thanks Activision/Blizzard for the proverbial slap to the nuts.

All this bad news surrounding Blizzard has got to be a joke or something...

What the fuck happened to my favorite PC devs? Do I have Activision to blame here? Unbelievable...

This has gotta be a miscommunication. Maybe something costs money, but the whole service can't cost money. The freeness and the constant updates for decades were what made B-Net the best in the world.

wow thats a kick in the nuts. Battlenet is a lot better than in single player and I'm not gonna pay a monthly fee to play a game i just bought. Hopefully its a one of fee if anything at all.

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.

My dream of of owning Starcraft 2 is slowly fading away. I dont really want to pay for BN just so I can get slaughtered by guys 1000 times better than me. For free its ok, but I cant pay for that.

I dont mind paying for XBL cause its about $3 a month and gives you loads of things to do, but I cant imaging paying a monthly fee for just one game thats not an MMO.

In its own way it is a MMO. Clans , rank/lvl, and race are all tracked online and sorted into leaderboards and ladders. with chat rooms and lobbies to boot!