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StarCraft 2 to Support Priced Maps, Mods
by Nick Breckon, Aug 21, 2009 4:18pm PDTA future StarCraft II Marketplace service was announced today at BlizzCon. The Battle.net store, planned to be added to StarCraft II after the game's launch, will allow map makers to publish both free and "premium" maps.
Premium maps will carry a fee, meaning mod and map makers can sell their content directly on Battle.net.
"We want to make sure that the best amateur game designers out there are making maps for StarCraft 2, and not for Kongregate or Steam or anything like that," said Blizzard's Rob Pardo.
"Think about it like this: something like Defense of the Ancients, I think, would be something like a free map because it doesn't have a lot of original content," he added, while noting that Blizzard made the announcement today in order to give map makers time to start thinking about ideas.
"We totally intend for there to be a lot of free content," he assured the crowd.
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I know some people could argue that this will kill the free community. I think everyone knows that only a small portion of the thousands of maps/mods released for W3 were decent. If the ones that kicked ass were able to receive money from their endeavor they might have released more cool shit instead of moving on.
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