I paid for the software, now I have to pay to play it each month?

[Astrø]

Oh... Never Mind then...

 

[Apollo]

because they change the game a lot,

 

[Astrø]

because they change the game a lot,

What?! Random! What are you talking about?

 

[Spider-Girl™]

d_t, you should have read the box before you bought it.

 

[StrainedEyes]

The simple rool is: "You must pay if you want good game today" I came up with that saying but it is true any online rpg suffers in graphics and gameplay without the mebership (Well not the graphics but yes to the gameplay) and then still the game is not that great...So consider this a very nice spa treatment of video games that you must pay for every back rub.

I wish the saying you came up with, had decent grammer.

 

[Astrø]

I wish the saying you came up with, had decent grammer.

As a gamer, Im allowed to not have decent grammer. I could be typing stuff like pwend and rotfl but people hate when you do that on blogs so I wont.

 

[primemover]

Retail cost = development of the game itself(takes many years)
Monthly cost = maintenance of the servers you and many others play on, and this also accounts for additional content outside of expansion packs

two separate things, and both take a superior effort to do.

 

[SouLeSS]

Obviously none of you have any idea what you're talking about.

MMO's have always had to charge a PTP fee, unless they were really really really terrible korean MMO's.

They need to get the money when you buy it to break even on all the pre-release stufft, like the initial buying of the servers and the payment of development teams.

The monthly fee is so they can keep their huge ****ing servers with thousands of GM's and developers cost from dipping too much into the corporate checkbook.

Most MMO's don't really make that much money until they lose their popularity. MMO's are expensive as **** to run.

Now, WoW is a different story, cause it's the biggest MMO ever, but other games like CoH/CoV, EQ1/2, DAOC, EVE, LOTR, or whatever bearly get profit off them.

 

[i-n-z-a-n-e]

I was going to buy that exact game a few months ago. good thing... GOOD THING the guy asked me if i knew this game was pay2play and i asked for an explanation (didn't know what that was lol) and when i found out i said oh crap nvm then..i was really looking foward to it lol.

 

[Astrø]

Even Games like Runescape make you pay for a somewhat good version of the game....

 

[Oerwinde]

Cryptic gives you a hell of a lot for your monthly fee. Though you used to get more for it than you do now when they mailed you that comic every month.

They've added a LOT to the game over the years. New areas, new enemies, new powersets, new archetypes, an item crafting and trading system, veteran rewards, new costume pieces, new missions, etc. The game is completely different than it was at release, and not in a bad way.

 

[Astrø]

Your avatar is awesome were did you get that?

Back to topic:

Even the Matrix came out with a paying like WOW

 

[SouLeSS]

Cryptic gives you a hell of a lot for your monthly fee. Though you used to get more for it than you do now when they mailed you that comic every month.

They've added a LOT to the game over the years. New areas, new enemies, new powersets, new archetypes, an item crafting and trading system, veteran rewards, new costume pieces, new missions, etc. The game is completely different than it was at release, and not in a bad way.

That's because COH was so bare boned when it first came out. It took like two weeks to hit lvl 50, and you couldn't do anything. There was no raid progression, no items to equip, no PVP at all, all you could do is make a new char and start all over.

 

[Astrø]

I heard DBZ is working on a pay as you play game too.