Mittens did you also hear that SC II has been split into 3 games? :P Does that make you want it even more now? Makes me wan't to boycott!

Yeah, I just saw that now. I'm away from the weekend and the people I'm with are watching Life and I'm not ready to watch that yet as I haven't seen Mondays.

Anyway, yeah. I saw it. I care far more about this story, though: Blizzard on Battle.net Subscription, Diablo 3 modding. And, on Shacknews, I wrote the following comment:

So long as I don't have to pay a monthly subscription to play Diablo 3 online with my friends and it doesn't get a tiered subscription service like Hellgate: London, I don't care. That is stupid. One of the best things about Diablo and Guild Wars is that, once the games are bought, I can jump online and play at any time with the same things in my account as when I left them.

And come the hell on, Blizzard. If ArenaNet can do it with Guild Wars, and they're a start-up that used Guild Wars as their first game, then why can't you with the absurd amount of moneyhats that were raked in through World of Warcraft? I understand no product should operate on the principle of losing money but, at some point, it becomes absurd. Even EA, that supposedly despised publisher of the world (wrongly so at this point, I believe), seems to be paying its revenue from its most popular games forward by releasing free and substantial downloadable content for gamers on marketplaces like Xbox Live which, as far as I know, really look down on large amounts of content being released to the Marketplace without a price tag attached.

I don't mind the Starcraft thing because, really, it'd be nice to see it released sooner rather than later. I don't mind the mod stuff because, at least for Diablo 3, I wouldn't use it anyway. The subscription stuff, though, annoys me.