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Note that this is all speculative; the Diablo 3 developers have not yet made any official comments on what will or will not be offered for free over Battle.net.
::''In terms of the financial model, our ideal, our goal has always been to make the game first. You know, what’s going to make the best game? And then we’ll figure out what we need to do to support that on a financial model side.''::--[[Leonard Boyarsky]] [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/diablo-iii-gamestar-interviews-leonard-boyarsky/ Gamestar Interviews Leonard Boyarsky]
Other quotes have been much the same; entirely non-committal about fees in either direction. It's clear that the developers are keeping their options open, but hoping to include some additional revenue streams -- if they intended for Diablo 3 to be just as free as Diablo 2, they've had plenty of opportunities to say so.
We'll get a much better idea of their plans for Diablo 3 when Starcraft 2 is released and we see what sorts of fee vs. free services it offers, and how those go over with players.
[[File:Bnet-forms-of-payment-1.jpg|frame|center|thumb|600px|Unknown what these "forms of payment" might be. Image from Battle.net, not part of WoW, July 2009.]]
