Subs just a 'what if' case. In the end, we cant really tell what this co will and will not do. To them, is abt earnings for the year to sate the shareholders. And earnings have to be better than the year before that. In a desperate case, wat is to say that they would not do the unthinkable. My point is more a lack of control on this unforseen things than one specific thing. The question is would you rather have them control ur content and saved game and potentially be able to twisting your arm to play your games on their terms or would you rather have control of ur own content and saved game and play on your own terms...barring not playing the game at all of course.

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Added on August 9, 2011, 10:16 am

Support the IP yes, but would they support their older games? look at Sony and support for PS2 games? Cant play em unless u have a PS2 or the older version of PS3.

Let me put this in perspective. Battlenet is their backend infrastructure. They need resources to maintain said infrastructure(Human resource, hardware etc). Resources need money. They will come a time when the number of users for said IP will no longer sustain the cost of maintaining this resources and also profits that they make. They will start to revamp said infrastructure to suit their business need and thus implement this in future iterations of the IP. Can we be certain that we will still be able to play the older iterations of this IPs? Would we leave it up to them to control that? Like i said, i can be pretty nostalgic and revisit this games in later years...but will i be able to play them in 20, 30 years time? Starcraft and Diablo 2 doesnt need battlenet to play as those contents and saved games are still stored locally (for single player games anyways). Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 is not. Yes we dont kno if this is the case in the far future, but i just dont like the fact that we are leaving all this up to them to decide.

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Added on August 9, 2011, 10:17 am

Lol. i want it. But i don wan the strings attached.