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Added The recent clarification on the cost of Diablo 3's cost for battle.net service.
==Battle.net Costs And Profits==
Blizzard has always (so far, as of January 2010August 9, 2001) maintained that it will be possible for gamers to play StaCraft 2 and Diablo 3 for free over Battle.net.
::"When a player buys the StarCraft II box at retail, they will have the ability to play on the new Battle.net for free."
::--Kevyn "Karune" Yu, Starcraft 2 community manager [http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/no-monthly-payments-for-starcraft-ii/]
An interview with Jay Wilson during the 2011 Gamescom conventions provided some details on which features of the Diablo 3 Battle.net service will be free.
::"…we've intended form the very beginning that Diablo 3 be an online game, and an online service and that allows us to provide persistence friends lists, cross game chat, persistent characters that we never delete even if you uninstall Diablo 3, we'll store your characters for you so if you ever return. All that for a game you don't pay a subscription fee for is a pretty good value and we feel worth the price of being online."
::--Jay Wilsom, Game Director of Diablo 3 [http://videos.pcgames.de/hdvideo/3981/Diablo-3-Gamescom-2011-VideoInterview]
