actually you might be suprised at how addicted some people are to this game there would still be quite a crowd of people i would imagine. also blizz has nothing to lose really because this game is so old, so they only have to gain from it. the only real way for them to lose would be to make it so you had to pay to play with all of thier games. because then i would not likely buy another blizz game. if they only make it pay to play for diablo i would probably switch to warcraft 3 FT.