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Station Pass gives Vanguard a shot

SharardSharard Member Posts: 14
in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Vanguard as a stand alone game at this time is not worth 15 bucks a month but if you go with the SOE Station pass, it makes it seem worth buying. For 25 dollars a month get EQ1, EQ2, Star Wars Galaxies,The Matrix Online, and of course Vanguard. I bought the game because of the station pass. The previous games mentioned are not really worth a stand alone subscription but sure are viable games under the station pass.

 

Im n ot saying down the road the game wont improve tro be a stand alone game but till then i feel its the station pass that keeps it going till that happens. I realize ill  probaly get flamed, but as the game is now, with out the choice of station pass i feel the game would noit last to long.

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  • VicatinVicatin Member UncommonPosts: 139
    Who has time for more then one MMO?  ur paying 10 extra bucks a month.  I hope ur playing these games at least 60 hrs a week.
  • wrkeechwrkeech Member UncommonPosts: 116
    Originally posted by Vicatin

    Who has time for more then one MMO?  ur paying 10 extra bucks a month.  I hope ur playing these games at least 60 hrs a week.
    $25 bucks a month is less than the price of two movie tickets.... So I say... if you play at least 5 hours a month... you got your moneys worth.
  • starman999starman999 Member Posts: 1,232

    LOL......

    If station pass has been able to keep post nge SWG and planetside going all this time they ought to be able to stretch VG out 8 or ten years.

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  • wrkeechwrkeech Member UncommonPosts: 116
    Yeah... thats the down side of the Station Pass I guess.  We get subjected to games that would have been scrapped months if not years ago if they had to stand on there own subscription base.



    *DISCLAIMER: The following statement is pure speculation on my part:



    Maybe thats why VG gravitated towards SOE and the Station Pass.  What better way to impress the share-holders (assuming Sigel is a publicly traded company) than to show them a graph that shows your new game has "X-thousand" subscribers during its first week of launch.  Quite easy to do if your counting Station Pass subscriptions alone.
  • AndirAndir Member Posts: 232
    Originally posted by wrkeech

    Maybe thats why VG gravitated towards SOE and the Station Pass.  What better way to impress the share-holders (assuming Sigel is a publicly traded company) than to show them a graph that shows your new game has "X-thousand" subscribers during its first week of launch.  Quite easy to do if your counting Station Pass subscriptions alone.
    It's Sigil, and it's not a publicly traded company.
  • wrkeechwrkeech Member UncommonPosts: 116
    Originally posted by Andir

    Originally posted by wrkeech

    Maybe thats why VG gravitated towards SOE and the Station Pass.  What better way to impress the share-holders (assuming Sigel is a publicly traded company) than to show them a graph that shows your new game has "X-thousand" subscribers during its first week of launch.  Quite easy to do if your counting Station Pass subscriptions alone.
    It's Sigil, and it's not a publicly traded company.

    OK ... its Sigil.  So let me amend my previous conjecture...



    Maybe thats why VG gravitated towards SOE and the Station Pass.  What better way to skew the bottom line than to look at a graph that shows your new game has "X-thousand" subscribers during its first week of launch?  Quite easy to do if your counting Station Pass subscriptions alone.



    I want to be very clear on this.   I AM NOT BASHING SIGILS CHOICE.  I dont even care WHY they made this choice.... Personally I think its an ingenious decision from a marketing standpoint alone.  Why start your player base from scratch when you can grab a few hundred if not thousands from another pool.



    Could you imagine what they could have done if they packaged this thru Blizzard and they had an "all for one" subscription option?
  • squeaky1squeaky1 Member Posts: 172

    Actually, I think it's the other way around.  Adding Vanguard to the Station Pass may very well save SWG and perhaps some of the other games.  It helps generate revenues that pay for continued development and maintenance of those games.

    I think it was a very savvy business move by SOE.

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    - I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

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