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Originally Posted by pacaveli
i dunt own xbox for that reason, blizzard did free online play with battle.net for both starcraft and diablo, and old warcrafts, im thinking the game should cost like 100 bucks and that includes all online fee
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Blizzard didn't host the servers for Starcraft and only hosted a very small amount of servers for Diablo 2. None of the Warcraft games require a server hosted by Blizzard. WoW is a bit different...since it's a MMORPG, Blizzard will have at least 25 servers constantly running. On top of that, every single player in WoW that's playing is constantly downloading from the aformentioned servers. It's basically like downloading a file constantly from Blizzard. Imagine 500,000 people downloading files from Blizzard at once. Now think of an Internet bandwidth bill for that. Blizzard's bandwidth bills must be astronomical. They host every server for WoW and allocate unlimited bandwidth for each server. This is why there's a monthly fee. If MMORPG's didn't have a monthly fee, lag would be unbearable in-game and server support would be non-existant. Not to mention Blizzard has to pay their employees for their time spent on the game and keep a 40-hour per week tech support staff paid all year until the game is over. MMORPG's can't work without a monthly fee.
-Lasereth