No one would want to pirate Shakespeare's work for it's not the hottest items on the market now.

Well maybe for poor family who wants to their child to be a stage actor playing Hamlet. Then again, Hamlet is free and can be borrowed from state Library (if they have it).

No one would want to pirate Shakespeare's work for it's not the hottest items on the market now.

Well maybe for poor family who wants to their child to be a stage actor playing Hamlet. Then again, Hamlet is free and can be borrowed from state Library (if they have it).

Y suddenly talk about shakespear pula.. lets go back to starcraft 2.. piracy problem is for blizzard to handle.. we enjoy the game

Yes, use a 4 century old piece of work to reinforce your point that pirates only will steal something current... I wonder what else did the literary industry produce in that 400 years? Let's not look that far back shall we? Still strong as ever eh?

Why the hell are you people talking Shakespeare in a games forum?

Because the LAN thingie is getting boring and no new news coming out from Blizzard? xD

Why the hell are you people talking Shakespeare in a games forum?

Paper and literature were consider only for the rich people in Shakespeare's time. So if the common wants to read it, they have to resolve to piracy for cheep print.
Well that's history now.

What they need in Starcraft 2: combat formation. Like Age of Empire series.

Argh, there's a big rumour spreading around after Blizzcon'09, said that the battle.net 2.0 will require monthly payment like WoW... hm... it doesn't sounds like a good news to me, hope it remain as a rumour and never come true.

Argh, there's a big rumour spreading around after Blizzcon'09, said that the battle.net 2.0 will require monthly payment like WoW... hm... it doesn't sounds like a good news to me, hope it remain as a rumour and never come true.

It's false.

I'll dig out the post the Karune says that they wont be charging for Battlenet 2.0.

So Julian (Jay) Wilson told us that you guys are looking monetize Battle.Net in some way. Is that right?

Wow, that's an evil way of putting it. Julian's turning into a business guy on me. Here's the way I would put it. We're definitely not looking at turning Diablo into a subscription based game. It's clearly not an MMO, so it's not appropriate to do a business model like that. The way we approach all of our games now, is we come up with what we think is a great game, and then we wrap the appropriate business model around it. If that's just a box price, then that's that.

With Battle.Net we're definitely looking at possible different features that we might be able to do for additional money. We're not talking about Hellgate or anything like that. We're not going to tack things on. I think World of Warcraft is a great example to look at. We charge people if they want to switch servers or if they want name changes, things that aren't core to the game experience, they're really just optional things that some people want. It takes us some development work to do it, so it makes sense to charge for it. We would never do something like say to get the full game experience, you'll have to pay extra.

what I will say is that a player who goes to retail and buys the Starcraft 2 box at retail will have the full Starcraft 2 game included in the box and they will have the ability to play on battlenet with no additional fee.

I read somewhere it says starcraft 2 and possibly future blizzard games will need to activate the game online through registering in blizzard website before you can play the game. If you dont have an internet connection then you will not be able to play the game.

Blizzard is going all out against piracy and it will be impossible for pirates to crack this game finally.

They even cracked star force, what you gonna say?

Anyway I once thinking if blizzard dare make battle.net playable only through monthly payment, I will definitely download the game instead of queue up during the launch date  for a collector's edition.

What is starforce? Anyway, I think they have made it clear that bnet is not going to be subscription base.