How many new mmorpg clients have you purchased In the last five years where you didn't subscribe aft

Rockgod99

A simple question when a mmo releases they sell clients at around 49.99 to 19.99. They offer a free month to go with that. How many mmos were you suckered into buying only to not sub after the free month In the last five years?

I believe mine was around four, Lotro, TR, WAR and Aion I'n the last five years...

arieste

LoTRO, AION, FE.

This is not counting ones where i paid at least a month of sub.   I've since returned to LoTRO in F2P, dunno if that counts.  I enjoyed my months in both AION and Fallen Earth.  So I don't feel i got suckered into anything.  For the most part, i think every one of the 20-30 MMOs i've tried has been worth the time and money I put into it.  I've never really felt "ripped off" as some people do.  $50 for a month of play is still a better deal than non-mmo games and most other forms of entertainment.

Jakdstripper

 i usually push myself to at least play any newly purchased game for at least 2 months just to see if it grows on me. FE was the only one i purchased but never subscribed to. not sure why, it was a cool game but didn't stick.

Unlight

None.

I usually have a fair idea of what's in store before I put money down on something.  Once I've made an investment, I will give a game a fair shot at keeping me by resubbing for at least one month, usually two.  After that, if it can't maintain my interest, I'm gone.  However, there's at least a dozen times where I've signed up for an MMO's free trial and ended up uninstalling it before the limit was up.  In many of those instances, it took longer to download and install the client than it did for me to decide that it isn't for me.  I'm pretty ruthless when it comes to deciding how I'm going to blow my free time.

EricDanie

LOTRO, WAR, AoC (dunno if it counts as I won it for free from MMORPG.com).

I feel so bad about LOTRO, I have the CE yet it was turned into garbage-value as the declining game went Freemium/P2NP.

And the reasons I bought those were IP-wise, not because of the gameplay, so I guess I got what I deserved for not playing a trial before purchasing.

Vercin

DAOC....bored the hell out of me. Everquest 2, if you played from release you know how quick it died.The screwed the group exp and mob leashing mechanic all to hell.

SWG, me and 4 friends played and from release....i dunno maybe it was the area we were in. I only ever saw maybe two dozen people from the starter areas.

stayontarget

Wow is the only one I can think of for me (GW could be put in the group if it had a sub).

dannydeuce

Vanguard was the only one for me.  I bought it, played for a week, quit.  2 years later played the free trial and sub'd for 3 months.  So yes and no really to answer your question.

Played Aion for a month and a 3 weeks before I hung it up was probably the closest in answering your question.

TheHatter

Fallen Earth - I played it pretty heavily and almost got to level cap in the first 2 weeks. I left when I found out that PVP was more than a pain in the ass. What a joke for a game that's set around a genre that exists solely on people vs. people. So much potential, yet so much fail. Combine the joke that was PVP with the fact that PVE was crap, the economy & crafting was a joke and you have a fail game pretty much everywhere a game could fail. 

Darkfall - Pretty decent game, but I found out that it wasn't exactly a sandbox yet and crafting was poorly implemented. Though, I think that once they start making headway into becoming more a sandbox, I will come back. They seem to be trying in the same direction EVE did when it started. The only reason I stuck with EVE, is because it had alot of strategy built into it from the very beginning. You can't really do that in Darkfall, so it needs the other aspects to make it playable for me. 

Warhammer - LMFAO

Final Fantasy 11 - This was recent though, I just picked it up for $5 on steam to play for a weekend.... too outdated for me. I didn't buy it with the intention of subscribing. 

 

And probably a couple others I can't remember. 5yrs is a long time and I've played ALOT of MMOs. These are just some of the ones within the last 2. 

Darkfall & Fallen Earth have alot of potential, but like I've read on these forums before "you just can't play potential". 

Daitengu

Dungeons & Dragons Online, RF Online, Eve, Champions Online, Aion, Conan. 

 

All for Various different reasons.  I will say DDO and Champions were funner as a pen & paper game. Probably because you get good story with an interactive GM vs quests.

elocke

Hmmm. Not a whole lot since open betas or trials can sometimes circumvent the option to purchase at all.

But of games I've purchased these are the ones I've not subbed to after the first month:

Vanguard(another game I've gone back to off and on and found better than it was at launch
FFXIV(already canceled even though I still have some time in my free month left)
LOTRO (although to be fair, I came back for Moria and have been subbed since, so it doesn't always mean a game won't change around.
Aion
Everquest 2
Warhammer Online
Eve
Darkfall

I should add preorders I've canceled to this list within the first few days of open beta or launch day, namely: Champions Online and Star Trek Online. Both games I had preordered and on launch day or the week of launch day I canceled my preorder.

I want to put AoC but I did play for at least 2 months at release.

Skooma2

One.  Age of Conan.

Blazer6992

Lotro and Tabula Rasa.

IAmMMO

I went from Uo, Horizons to EQ2, all  western MMO's that came out since then I triend and didn't sub after the first month. It was only until Darkfall was released did I sub for the second month in years of bouncing from new MMO to new MMO. I was a Uo player big time, but found EQ2 theme park for the time different so played it for a bit and had my fun with it until that formula for MMO's quickly become stale for me. I wouldn't be playing a MMO now if it weren't for Darkfall.

Einherjar_LC

I'd have to honestly say none.

 

I usually do a lot of research about a game before purchasing it.  I know what I like and what friends to trust opinions about  games and it has worked out well for me so far.

 

If I have any doubt about a game, I usually wait for the free trial and my caution is usually correct as I can't think of any game I subbed to after wating for a trial.

Rockgod99

@elocke
That's 8 games dude!!!! Holy crap. Have you atleast revisited any of them at all? That's quite a bit of cash to waste on clients dude.

Palebane

Dungeons and Dragons I got for $10 on Amazon.com before it went FTP.

Age of Conan I played for 3 months.

Warhammer Online I played for 2 months.

I also beta tested APB and did not purchase.

So, none.

Minmator

AOC: Played a week and it just lacked the scifi appeal... Thought the blood would make for it... Didn't;

LOTRO: Played a week and it's childish graphics really turned me off, lacked the scifi appeal too, crafting system too shallow (who wants to make pink pants???);

Pirates of the burning sea; Palyed 3 days;

WWII Online: Played 1 month and had a blast, just didn't have time to play a MMO at the time;

SWTOR: I intend to try it when it comes out and I expect to not renew my sub after the first month... Voice all over, themepark, WoW gameplay, single player MMO, etc. 

Thorqemada

Darkfall...

Naowut

I bought all the MMORPGs but not subscibed after the first month since SWG.

Reklaw

I do buy games but pure doing it cause the only opinion about if a game is worth it will be my own opinion when having experianced playing the game.

Lord Of the Rings Online  - bought - close beta was allot better community-wise, overall felt to confined in my MMORPG experiance

Tabula Rasa - bought - many great things in the game, if only it had more of basic ingredients that makes a MMORPG, regardless the things I loved it felt to much as a regular mulitplayer game but with a sub/fee. Would still love seeing the type of combat-animations-spawns done in TR into a more traditional MMORPG. But perhaps did play it a little more then a month tho.

Age of Conan - bought - again felt to confined, but was becoming more happy when the first 20 lvl´s had passed, overall to much handholding atleast that´s how I felt at the time of playing and seeing the changes in the patches.

Warhammer - bought - lasted not even 2 weeks and that's even with very limited play-time, so total gametime might have been less then a week.

Aion - bought - lasted about a week, too little to do towards my needs and wants from a MMORPG experiance.

Champions Online - bought - didn't even last 1 week

Star Trek Online - bought - being both a superhero fan aswell a Star Trek fan, it's just that Cryptic doesn't seem to deliver a MMORPG experiance I kinda expect from this genre.

Perhaps I did leave out some D2D bought MMORPG, but from the boxes the above is what I have but aint playing it.

Murashu

When I purchase a game, I typically stick with it for a few months so I only have two that I couldn't make it passed the first 30 days.

Darkfall - love the game, love it, love it, love it. I HATE first person view for anything other than shooters and even most shooters allow you to pan out when you want.

 

Fallen Earth - great concept, great story, but it ended up being another quest grinder with an incredibly boring PvP system.

elocke

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Originally posted by Rockgod99
@elocke
That's 8 games dude!!!! Holy crap. Have you atleast revisited any of them at all? That's quite a bit of cash to waste on clients dude.

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Most definitely. It's not that much cash if you think about when they released and that I don't buy any other type of game. I am an MMORPG junkie and I love it, BUT on the other side of that, I do know these games grow over time and I DO revisit them from time to time.

Take LOTRO, I now have a lifetime sub to the game because it changed in the direction I wanted it to and I now enjoy logging in any time I want and having access to everything.

I also from time to time pop into Vanguard, EQ2, Lotro, AoC, Warhammer, etc. ESPECIALLY right now during these long MMO draughts.

The games I bought and stayed in for long periods of time are SWG(back before the CU), WoW, and FFXI.

Next year I can't wait to buy Rift, SWTOR and GW2 and maybe DCUO.

Another trick I do, is to preorder but only drop $10 at first and then pay over time, kind of like a layaway plan up to the release day. This way the wife doesn't get mad and I can get my games when I want and not feel guilty about blowing 50 bucks.

The only games I ever felt guilty about buying and beating or not playing after a month are the million single player games that last like 20 hours tops in my console days. Like God of War. Awesome game, but for $50 bucks I beat it in a week and didn't replay it as I'm not a challenge player, I'm a story/explorer player.

anyway, that was long but I hope you see where I am coming from with my gaming tastes and money wrangling.

severius

three, four..... something like that.  Figure its ok as most games don't last longer than a week or two anyway.

anieli

I usually don't get past the first month. I sometimes play less than week. I've got so many MMOs where I try the trial I love it and buy the game on the 3rd day only to quit even before the trial is up -_-

Here's the list: LOTRO, EQ2, EVE, Age of Conan, Warhammer, DDO, Archlord (lol), Darkfall, Lineage. The rest couldn't even entice me into buying the client, crappy trials. Aion's lack of trial was the reason I never bought it. I will never buy a MMO which doesn't have a trial except if I don't trust the company. And NCSoft are definitely not among my favourites :P

I've returned to some of those games after 6 months, an year or something like that. Dunno if that counts though :P

cheyane

Cannot say I have ,I play a minimum of 3 months usually. Although I did buy Earth and Beyond and I was moving so by the time I got around to taking the box out to play the game had shut down. I think the shortest would have to be SWG and Dungeons and Dragons but I went back to dungeon and dragons so I guess that does not count either.