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You ever get Subscription Guilt?
Bronte
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You know... when you are paying for MMO subscriptions. But you don't have enough time to play them. So you feel guilty about paying. But you are too apathetic to care anyway?
http://arewenewatthis.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/subscription-blues-or-15-holes-in-my-pocket/
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i would propably have if not for my little brother playing any mmo account i have had whenever im working or out.
I have the same problem. I have a WoW account that I pretty much never log into, unless it is an event or patch. I have an EVE account that I just log into to keep skills on training. I have a Fallen Earth account collecting dust since about a month and a half ago. I have a Station Pass, but never actually log into any of the Sony games... And now I have another AoC account, which I play maybe an hour a day... Man... Now I feel like a douche, lol.
Yeah if that happens after the first 1-2 months I end up cancelling until I have time to play. It does make me kind of jittery when I know I am paying for something and getting no use out of it.
Now what does really get to me is being able to see my payment history, I wish that I wasn't able to see it.
Yeah... 13 euro a month since September of '05 on WoW... That is... 650ish Euro. Plus box costs... Oh well. It has been over 4 years, so it is still not that bad. I have spent more than that on soda yearly.
Once I stop having any interest in playing, I do drop my sub. A game has to keep my interest and I have to have time to play it. If I go for more than a couple of weeks without wanting to log on, I stop paying for it. Why bother if you're not going to play?
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I get a very interesting type of subscription guilt.
Firstly, I lose interest in everything really quickly. I can probably attribute that to my ADD. Either I lose interest in my class, my character model, my character name, or the entire game itself.
I just wish I could pick an MMO and stick with it. But the part I feel guilty about the most is the fact that my boyfriend & best friend are playing WoW currently and I just get bored so quickly when I play that so then I flounder and start trying to find a different game to play for a while until I get bored of the new game and eventually find my way back to playing with them.
This has resulted in sometimes paying for 5 MMO's at a time until I find something to hold my interest for a while.
The moral of this story is: I'm insane.
And since we're laying out our guilt here. I feel guilty because at the moment I have interest in Fallen Earth (which, if I decide to sub is going to cost me $50). But if I sub it and hate it later, I'll feel guilty for wasting more money.
I will usually let my subs run out before I lose interest. That way, when I'm done playing all my single player games that have been on the shelf, I can go back to the MMORPGs feeling refreshed and ready to socialize.
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I usually don't play more than one MMO at a time and can enjoy it enough i rarely feel it isn't money well spent. Sub guilt i suspect is something fortunately reserved for more hardcore players than myself. Now, money wasted on f2p cash shops on the other hand...
Just to make things clear...
I speak for myself and no one else, unless i state otherwise mine is just an opinion. A fact is something that can be independently verified, you may challenge such but with proof. You have every right to disagree with me through sound argument, i believe in constructive debate, but baseless aggression will warrant an unkind response.
i had WoW account which i played loads until a few months ago where i just basically quit xD however forgot in fact i had paid so no guilt atall :P until i remembered and cancelled it
I have eve subbed with 99% of the time just logging in once a week for 10~ min to set a skill, i tell myself
wasting time ingame is still worse than using up all your time for something that matters irl :]
So no guilt for not playing while having it subbed, i canceled wow though since i knew i wouldnt touch it until next expansion.
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Real time skill training smooths that right out.
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Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm not paying a subscription for a struggling MMO that I like. Case in point, I absolutely love The Chroncles of Spellborn, but decided to get LOTRO another chance before I subscribed to TCOS. By the time I gave up on LOTRO, the dev team was fired and the game was announced to be remade as a F2P game in 2010.
If I give them the money, I'm playing the game, hate it or love it, I'm playing it for that month at least.
Playing: World Of Warcraft
Resting From: Nothing
Retired: EQ2, CoH, Tabula Rasa, SWG, Warhammer, AoC
Waiting For: SWTOR, APB
Love(d): Tabula Rasa, SWG, World Of Warcraft, Age of Conan
Can't say that I have really. Though I've regretted spending money on an MMO, which would have to be every single one of them that I've bought except for maybe 3 of them. I guess that's kind of the same. UO, Planetside, WoW, I never gave the subscription fee a second thought since I had so much fun and met some really cool, laid back, people in those games.
I agree with WoW, I find a lot of nice people there, I played AoC, it's a fun game, but I'm the only person not over 20, and that apparently gives you the title, "Treat my ass like dirt.".
Playing: World Of Warcraft
Resting From: Nothing
Retired: EQ2, CoH, Tabula Rasa, SWG, Warhammer, AoC
Waiting For: SWTOR, APB
Love(d): Tabula Rasa, SWG, World Of Warcraft, Age of Conan