Monthly Fee

[Falcon]

I think the price will be like 12-15 but im hoping for 10 like the rest of you. i think that the gaming industry is full of greedy bastards lol

[mistled]

and I think the gaming community is full of stingy tightwads.


It's not a raise in price. There hasn't been an announcement as to what it will cost. When there is no price, you can't raise it.

[Hamma]

Unfortunatly many more games will go to the pay to play model in the future.

Mainly because gamers thing everything should be free, I mean many of the people I know dont even pay for games, they download them.

How does a company even profit off that?

[Alucard]

I got bored of this forum halfway through

[Dqua]

From: http://eqlive.station.sony.com/suppo...ab_pricing.jsp

New EverQuest rates as of April 25, 2002:

$12.95 per Month
$35.85 for 3 Months
$65.70 for 6 Months
$119.95 for 12 Months (a 23% discount off the monthly rate).
$199.95 for 24 Months (a 35% discount off the monthly rate).

You guys should realize how much Sony has done on a monthly basis with EQ and why it would feel to justify charging that much. They run 45 servers for EQ, and not just individual servers, server clusters. Added they patch very often, compare this to your average FPS dev. However this has a flipside, SoE and VI, have very often screwed the pooch with patches, left content, abilities, etc. broken for months even years on end. Also, their GM support can be awful at times unless you play on the 39.95 a month server. Example: You submit a request for GM assistance with being stuck under the world from a glitch, and maybe you might get help with in 5 hours if you are lucky, if not wait a week and you might. Also, they've nerfed tactics/abilities, if they are used to defeat content in such a matter that a dev didn't want it to be done. SoE/VI however has been better about communicating with the player base over the past year. Whereas this is a FPS with no NPC's, so .../shrug. Alot of people who've played EQ will tell you that they won't ever touch another SoE or VI product again because of these reasons.

In no way am I trying to knock the PS dev team, I think this will be a good and unique game and hope to play it myself. Just trying to give some people who have not dealt with SoE's online division before some insight.

BTW, hi first time posting here.

[Zoolooman]

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