If BattleNet 2.0 is Pay to Play.. I'm not playing :\

Blizzard is an overpraised developer who makes good but overrated games.

Blizzard wants to milk Starcraft II and therefore they did what practically no developer has done before - split the game's three campaigns into three separate games with different release dates so they could raise their profits even more.

It's not :\ Why are you even thinking it is P2P?! Blizzard and common sense say that B.net 2.0 MUST be free...

First of all, it's not 3 different games, it's 1 game and 2 expansions.

Second, had they not have split the game like this, it would still be 1 game and 2 expansions, only each title would have 1/3 of each story and not a complete and fulfilled campaign. Can't you realise this?!

No I can't.

I think what he's saying is that the "game and two expansions" should all be packaged together, and sold for regular retail price, or perhaps slightly above it.

I keep forgetting that he worked for 4Kids. (shudder)

But i think this is just speculation. StarCraft II was probably divided up like that ahead of time, so that Blizzard wouldn't leave people waiting as long.

So, let me get this straight. Bobby Kotick:

1. Demands a PS3 price drop
2. Increases the price of his own game (and thinks it wasn't increased enough)
3. Removes network play from a game whose prequel is a national sport in some countries, just so he can charge for online play that used to be free.

Yeah... I really don't like this guy. I'm a professional contributor to this site, so I'll just leave it at that.

3 is partly still speculation. Blizz aren't going to let him ruin their game- they could have gotten rid of LAN because they are upgrading Battle.net to be able to handle the same situations- I doubt B.N 2.0 will begin to charge for the service- after all, VGC 2.0 didn't

But it's good to know the VGC Staff agree

Maybe you should write an editorial on him. Smaller sites, like Joystiq and Destructoid, tend to do that, although larger sites like GameSpot and IGN don't.

EDIT: I remember about a year ago, Rocketpig wrote an article about how the review system was broken. Something like that, perhaps?

I think it was smart though. Imagine if he release SCII, and charged online for that. There's a possibility that the avaiability of free Starcraft would have offset sales. Although a more politcally correct move would have been to charge Starcraft II online (due to "increasing cost of development" or some BS), he did the most correct move, business wise.

He truly is a scary man O.o Imagine if he was a politician or something. 10+ Dread.