What would you pay a month?

shind

 I seen a post in another forum asking about if there was going to be a monthly subscription to play. I asked myself what would be the top dollar I woud pay to play. Now this comes with several factors I realize. But lets say this game gets good player support, because not everyone is gonna like a certain game for reasons of there own.

Prankster

I am beginning to think its not at all about money anymore. I would pay 30 bux a month for a flawless and fun game expreience. I am truly sick of the half assed attempts made by some software companies to scrape the money out of my pockets.

Give me a game that innovates the industry in the same way as EQ UO and AC did in the begining and I'll pay whatever the company has to charge to make a profit.

Refugee from AC1, AC2, EQ, UO, AO, JG, DAOC, SB, SWG, PS, FW, and HZ.

Adreal

I'd be willing to pay 15 bucks tops (talking about perfect mmorpg. doesn't have to be anything fancy-such as virtual reality. Just graphics like AC1 but gameplay like GS3).

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Omol

Right now I would be willing to pay 12.95 which is the norm for now. As time goes on the norm is going ot go up. If the company can offer good CS and a good game then I would be willing to pay more eventually, but until the norm rises in price I will stay with the standard.

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Yordo

$15 is a fair price in the new game market right now.  Hopefully no one decides to go past that, since $20 would just be cheating the public.  I have a bad feeling that EQ2 is going to have a high monthly fee just because they know people will buy it anyways.

phantium

$ 14,99 is ok. lol

DeadThorn

I'll only pay $5-$10, and $15 if its really good.

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entropyx

There's no way I would pay a cent over $16, that's just way too much IMO. (Maybe I should get a job? )

ryoujikaji

I'd rather see mmorpgs with no monthly fee, but i guess they have to pay the bills somehow.

ChronicRick

I'll pay NOTHING and they'll LIKE IT too!

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Desperado206

It would all depend on the quality of the game..... But mmorpgs now a days seem like they are charging 12.95 for a game that is way below expectations.

I like what Turbine did with AC1 and AC2.   Instead of paying 12.95 a month for service...... You are paying 12.95 for monthly CONTENT.

 Go Turbine!

Anyways...  I would be willing to pay up to $20 a month on a "perfect" game.   Maybe eve more

Rhaytan

To me mmorpgs are one of the cheapest forms of entertainment out there. If you compare how much per hour you pay for things like movies, concerts and sporting events to how much you pay per hour to game you'll see what I'm getting at. If I'm really having fun with a game I can easily play 40 plus hours per month. So even at $20.00 a month it could be considered a bargain.

On the flip side, I haven't found anything out there at the moment that I enjoy enough to consider paying $15 a month, let alone $20.

Orophin

I'm willing to pay fair market value for a game.  I have no illusions about the role of money in the world.  Face it, game companies don't run these games to make us happy.  They do it to make money.  Doctors don't treat us because it gives them warm fuzzies inside; they do it because we pay them.  The ones who do it for free are called volunteers.  I've never seen a real volunteer game (the free ones are trying to subsist off of advertising income), and I don't expect to.  If the gaming public will pay 49.95 a month to play a game, the game companies will charge it.  The game is to charge as much as you can get away with charging.  It's not evil, it's just capitalism.  If I don't like a price, the best I can do is to vote with my feet, even if that means not getting to play a great game.  Game companies charge 12.95 a month for mediocre games because so many people are willing to PAY 12.95 a month for a mediocre game.  They have no reason to listen to us or to improve the games, because they are making money.  Improving a game requires expenditure of money, thus cutting profits.  We may think that we aren't paying them anything, since we just play the free trial, but depending on the game, we may have already put $50 on their pockets.  Who's winning so far?

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j7007

It dpends on the game itself... If i like it, why not to pay 15$ but not more. But i'm not willing to pay more than 12$ for any game which is on the market right now, honestly i think even this "small" amount is too much.

If devs can create the proper conditions with the new quests, new npcs around, new weapons and MAINLY A STORY (which is missing in all MMORPG btw) i'm willing to pay 20$ but it means this game has enough of potential to make it being the only game you play. Honestly, i don't think it is realistic. Pity

Finwe

atm, i wouldnt pay more then 10$, why? Technology prices go down, games get a little better graphics, but even worse gameplay then the past so called generation. AC1, great game, havent found a game as good, and definitely not better, 10$ a month. SWG, 15$ a month, one of the worse MMRPG's i've ever played.

EQ, starts out at 10$ a month, now I believe its 15$? They dont change the price because it gets more expensive to run, they change it because they can.

visionner

I think that for the most part $10 seems to be a standard, I am willing to pay that much but any more than that and the game really has to be worth it. A lot of games are average and people spend so much money on it a month, and really the good games are the only ones worth paying that much for.

madjake

I would pay 20 bucks a month if I really liked and enjoyed my time playing the game, heck I'd even pay more if it was really that good. I figure it like this:

Going out to two movies....

2 tickets(assuming I am not taking anybody and matinee prices.. if not, double this...) about $12
2 large popcorns 7
2 large drinks 7

Right there is $26 bucks. I love movies and I pay that when I can afford it. Now that's what? 4-6 hours of entertainment. Probably less even.

Now an MMOG....

Lets consider a "casual"(whatever?) player. Average of 2 hours a day. That's 60 hours a month (Haha! I know many of us do 2-5 times more than that! Myself included).

I hate number crunching but what the hell... 60 hours for 20 bucks would come out to about .33 cents an hour. That seems good to me. Now say you play 150 hours a month, that's about .13 cents an hour.

Something that keeps me busy for that many hours and costs that little is pretty cool in my opinion. Life gets a lot more expensive than that. I can understand some might not be able to afford 20 bucks and I can appreciate that, I'm a working college student who takes care of myself and I've been in that situation. Others might not think it's worth the money but even when money is tight it feels like a good deal to me when you weigh the raw numbers.

There's my rant, rip it apart

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JAttractive

I'd pay about $40 Canadian a month, maybe $50 or so (about 30-40 $US) if the game was worth it, had the support and constantly updated content. This is the cost of a night out for me and if a game was good enough I gladly sacrifice (and probably choose to) one night a month for what could be close to 100 hours of enjoyment. That's what a quarter an hour?

Whoopee! It sounds like a lot because we are used to the $15 charge or so but if a game could blow me away I'd pay it.

Keep in mind that no current game is close to worth it in my mind. This is purely hypothetically speaking if an IDEAL game were to come along.

Finwe

You speak of a movie, pop corn, drinks etc. Ok, for one, I never buy pop corn or drinks, out of all the movies i've been too, i've only had a drink 3 times. They rip you off, high way robbery, they steal everything out of your pockets including lint.

Now secondly, a good movie is 3 hours of actionpackes, enjoyable entertainment, extremely fun, etc etc.

MMRPG's=You're lucky if you get an hour of complete enjoyment and entertainment each day, most the times its grind, grind, grind, grind, do that level grind.....*snore* A weaker yet more lasting version of entertainment, vs a more fulfilling version. Its like drinking a gallon of watered down coke vs a 1 liter of it in pure form. Tastes better, not as lasting.

JAttractive

This is all assuming you went to a great movie too. How often do movies fail to live up to expectations?

You also are talking about the levelling grind but if you are a PVP'er it isn't necessarily so. This is exactly why I don't understand how someone could go through the grind simply to grind some more? To me it's all about grinding up to a desired level and then reaping the enjoyment of pvp. I know a night of PVP'ing is often a lot more fun, intense, action packed and enjoyable than 80% of the movies I have watched.

The best part is I can play that MMORPG all month long for the price of one night at the movies? Sounds like a deal!

 

Finwe

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Originally posted by JAttractive

This is all assuming you went to a great movie too. How often do movies fail to live up to expectations?
You also are talking about the levelling grind but if you are a PVP'er it isn't necessarily so. This is exactly why I don't understand how someone could go through the grind simply to grind some more? To me it's all about grinding up to a desired level and then reaping the enjoyment of pvp. I know a night of PVP'ing is often a lot more fun, intense, action packed and enjoyable than 80% of the movies I have watched.
The best part is I can play that MMORPG all month long for the price of one night at the movies? Sounds like a deal!
 

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If you look at my wording, I said good movie.

Secondly, I'm a PvP'er, and yes, PvPing is an enjoyable passtime, but for PvPing to be extreme such as two high level characters fighting; (being a newbie and PvPing just isnt the same) how do you get to those levels? You level grind, over and over, now if only leveling was actually fun.