Originally Posted by
Doombringer
Heck, I remember pre-WoW Blizzard.
"Hey, let's make a cool game called Diablo, and let people play it together over the interweb." And it was cool. And you could play with your friends, on Battle.net, without any bogus fees. And you could do it with Starcraft and Diablo II and the Warcraft games, too.
Now it's more along the lines of "Let's add a cool new feature, but let's also strategically monetize portions of it to maximize profits."
Blizzard got too big, too fast, and I blame WoW, and I blame Activision.. because I know that if the same 'old guard' folks in that Retrospective were still calling all the shots, we wouldn't have 'premium' BS.