In an interview with Joystiq, Blizzard Vice President of game design, Rob Pardo, was asked about earlier reports from Julian Wilson on how Blizzard is looking to monetize Battle.net.

Pardo mentioned that Blizzard is not looking to put Diablo 3 on a subscription-based pricing. “It’s clearly not an MMO, so it’s not appropriate to do a business model like that” Pardo answered.

Further in the interview the VP of game design went on to answer the question about Battle.net saying…

As if it wasn’t bad enough that Starcraft fans learned the single-player campaign would be broken up into a trilogy, Blizzard Vice President of game design, Rob Pardo, had to make things worse.

In an interview with Joystiq, Mr. Pardo was asked how long of a gap there would be between releases, to which he responded: “So, you know with any luck, it would be like a year for each successive one, but that’s going to be a…

Blizzard’s Rob Pardo, vice president of game design, told Game Daily that he will shy away from putting World of Warcraft games on consoles because of the potential growth for the game on the PC and Mac platforms.

Although MMOs have yet to grow in popularity on videogame consoles, and WOW has more than 9 million subscribers, companies such as NCSoft will continue to change that claim with its upcoming exclusive game for the PlayStation 3.