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The costs of playing
Tomberry73
Member Posts: 11
It is quite funny to read almost everywhere about relevance of the prices of subscriptions (15 US$ a month!) while noone is caring about the price of the time they spend.
Have you ever thought that for the most of you spending 1/10 of the time you spend in the games in a stupid part time job could give you yearly subscription to 10 games?
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The real question is if its worth $15/month. Many of these games play like your working at a part-time job.
Say no to high subscription rates that keep going up. The more you pay for them, the more justification the publisher has to increase the rates.
...I thought it was LotRO...
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
Yup, I think that is the direction all future pay to play MMOs will go. If you buy the game after launch it is 14.99. If you preorder you get a 9.99 deal.
Lotro is the only game that has the option for 1 time fee of 200 bucks and then you can play until the game closes out years down the road.
Or any other MMO doing it that's not LotRO?
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
I do not think preordering is bad, I mean if you know you are getting it and willing to at least try it for 2 months, it saves you money to preorder and get the 9.99 for the second month(first month is free).
Lifetime fee is bad, IMO.
I preorder TONS of MMOs and TONS of games in general yearly. My Gamestop bill last year was well over $2000. It's worth every penny, and I'm glad to put the money down, even if it's lost.
You people who flip out about the $5/10/15/20 PreOrder cause it's an afront to you are quite pathetic in my opinion. I spent that amount at 3 hours at the movie, let alone the hours available in the Beta I get into for PreOrdering that I don't play cause I don't play MMO Betas.
PreOrdering is great. I do it.
- CaesarsGhost
Lead Gameplay and Gameworld Designer for a yet unnamed MMO Title.
"When people tell me designing a game is easy, I try to get them to design a board game. Most people don't last 5 minutes, the rest rarely last more then a day. The final few realize it's neither fun nor easy."
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