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$15 a month is NOTHING!
Vertex1980
Member Posts: 951
Why do people bitch and moan because they have to pay a very small fee each month to play a game? It's been said a 1,000 times, so let me be the 1,001st time.
Go to a movie? Right there it's over $15 if you want to actually wash that 5 pounds of popcorn down with you 2 gallons of watered down soda.
Buy take out? Skip one time, you'll have $15 to keep playing WoW.
Don't buy all that bling bling just so some kid will snatch it off your neck the next day.
Stop drinking a gallon of soda a day.
Don't rent a trillion things each month (Use netflix).
I could go on, but here's a prime example of why we shouldn't bitch about paying for entertainment.
ImagiNation Network back in 1991!
When owned by Sierra Online, one was given a certain amount of hours per month which one could play, with multiple monthly fee plans available. Only one plan, for $119.99, allowed for unlimited hours of play. These fees did not include any additional dial-up charges the user may have incurred with their phone services as this was a dial-up modem access only service.
Once acquired by AT&T however, no unlimited hour plan was available, and using hours beyond the monthly plan involved a hefty $2.50 per hour fee. AT&T also added a surcharge for those subscribers who did not access TSN/INN through a "Preferred Access Number" (PAN). This surcharge, plus the general increase in subscription fees, contributed to the decline in users until TSN/INN's shutdown in 1996.
Rates as of 1995 were as follows:
- Welcome Plan: 5 hours for $9.95, $2.95 each additional hour
- 10 Plan: 10 hours for $19.95, $2.75 each additional hour
- 15 Plan: 15 hours for $29.95, $2.50 each additional hour
- 25 Plan: 25 hours for $49.95, $2.25 each additional hour
- 50 Plan: 50 hours for $99.95, $1.95 each additional hour
Without a preferred access number, all weekday time between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. was billed $6.00 an hour, additional time in one minute increments. AT&T users had a 10% discount on their monthly membership fee.
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But once you buy a home and have kids time becomes VERY limited.Once i get home from work and eat dinner wash the kids put them to bed and watch a little tv i really have no interest in "logging on" for 2 or 3 hours.
The mmo industry as uniques as it may be is failing to keep people interested.
Your right 15 bucks a month is cheap.But so is a good book.
Want to ENJOY an mmo?
Dont start a guild and dont be a leader or volunteer to be coleader or captain.
Just play the damn game:)
Yes, I would pay the fee to play a game if I can find a game that is worth the monthly payment. The only one I see in the future is WAR. Until then I will just play F2P games.
I agree $15 a month is nothing.
Its not about money.
Its about what you GET for the money.
$50 box for a game coded by slave programmers from India or China.
$15 a month, they give you nothing, no new content, nada.
Then a year down the line they have another $50 box you have to buy, once again coded by slave programmers from India and China.
But thats okay, go ahead and get scammed.
Now toss in the lack of content, updates, constant bugs that screw up the economy (in game), script kiddies etc and that $$ per month seems to be a bigger and bigger waste. A waste that could be spent elsewhere on perhaps a better game and maybe a 2 hour movie that will be more entertaining then that month you've played.
The day that video game programming is reduced to slave labor is the day I'll send a job application to the White House to be President of the U.S.
it doesn't work like that.
Whos been bitching? I read these forums on a pretty regular basis and can't think of anyone who has bitched about 15 bucks a month recently, or even for several months. There have been some here and there seeking free MMOs, but they didn't bitch about the sub MMOs in their posts.
I agree $15 is nothing, but I wouldn't spend it on a boring game like WOW.
I wouldn't call them "slave programmers". They are just cheap labors. Since the only difference is they receive much lower wages than the programmers in the US. But they have all the freedom...jeez...
I consider it a bargain.
Especialy if you keep track of how many hours you play ( via X Fire for example ) and then work out what it is costing you per hour.
Only DAoC kept me totally absorbed. All the new stuff, WoW, EQ2, CoH etc etc is ok for a few weeks but then I get bored of it and move on.
However, after 6 to 8 months I find myself wanting to return and the beauty of MMORPG's is that not only is my character still there despite what I may have erased etc from my PC, but there has usually also been a free update.
Darkmoon Faire, Splitpaw etc etc
Believe me I would prefer another DAoC to grip me for three solid years like before, but until then hoping from one mediocre offering to another will just about keep me going.
$15 a month ? Bargain
Before cable came along my monthly internet fees were around €300 per 2 months because of the phoneline costs.
And as the OP stated; go outside and do something, you'll be out of €15 really really quickly.
I'm not whinning. I too have a house, car, family, pets, 2 kids, blah blah blah.
I'm just trying to make a point. I pay $15 a month, I think it's a wonderful bargin. Yet there's still people here who crap on me saying I'm crying.
There's a difference. If I stated I didn't think it was a good deal, and thought it was just a scam to get your money, then that would be different, but I think $15 a month (even if you play 2-3 hours a day) is still the best bang for your buck.
That's all I'm saying. And I was trying to show the people who do think it's too much money, that there use to be a network that charged astronomical prices back in 1991.
when you are playing a mmorpg and they give patch day itues and server boots restarts the lag latency ping is over 1800 and it is not just you but reported server wide , then find out every server that had that wonderful hardware up grade is reporting the game is unplayable that is where the problems stem from.
The old adge of finding another server doesn't work when those servers are experaining the same techincal difficulites. While beware of playing on patch day most recently Blizzard has taken it to a hole new level. Day 4 of patch and the game is still well unplayable.
That is when i go ok there having problems a good time to take a break for a while.
But what conserns me if they with there income and talent can not resovlve huge issues what hope is there for the rest of the industry in the current state of things?
You spend that $15 of yours a month on a charity, then someone in africa will have something to eat for a whole month.
Think about it.
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Those were the bad ol' days of the internets...
Thank you for bringing this to the attention of cry babies who don't think it's fair to have to pay for entertainment!
"Boo hoo...$15 a month is too much" they sob, meanwhile I'd give anything to have a MMOG that was good enough to spend $100. bucks a month on!
At a measly $15. a month MMOGs are the most awesome entertainment value in the known universe...second only to masturbation!
You spend 15 dollars on africa you are throwing your money down a toilet, most likely some goon will just rob the person with the 15 dollars, or it will directly go to the local warlord.
Monthly fees go towards server upkeep, badwith and the constant nerfing you carebears scream for. You don't like it play f2p or guild wars or fps.
It's better be hated for who you are, than loved for who you aren't.
So today i'm complaining because i have no optical mouse at work. Which means loads of mouse roller cleaning. It's just how much those companies had to invest against the player base they had. They amount was legit then but now if you take the asame comparison and look at WoW it should be only 1/10 of the todays fee 1,50$ a subscribtion would still make it a profitable game.
But hey if you wanna live in the past and the fantasy world of your own creation that fine by me.