Ok I am a 7day'er and I would like to become a full member of planetside, unfortunatly it is a huge investment in something that dosnt run very well on my system as is.
Not haveing the original game in order for me to become a full fledged paying subscriber I have to buy the Original Planetside at $50 (if someone could point me to where I could get it cheaper please tell me) Then I would still have to buy CC at another $30 in order to have access to everything the game has to offer.
At my current level of addiction I would have to buy the 6month subscription and make my descision to renew after that. If I am not mistaken the 6 mon sub is $64.
So the total for me a new player to join the game and have access to everything is a grand total of $144 dollars. Sure I could just use the 30day free trial that comes with the Original, still that leaves me with $80 and if I totally skip the expansion I could get in at $50. But with the 7day offer I have a complete working version of the game on my system so I would be paying 50 bucks for a key code. That to me is alot.
What ever happend to how SOE distributed Ruins Of Kunark, I had never played Everquest before, but a couple of my friends said how great it was so I bought Ruins, a full working version of Everquest at a reasonable price. SOE then got 3years of Sub fees plus I bought the next 2 expansions (practically the day they came out).
Basically what this all breaks down to is CC would sell alot more units if it was a full version of Planetside instead of a very poor marketing scheme. The influx of new players would be much greater if they could get into the game at $30 bucks. I know they would have had quite a bit of my money already if I could get in cheaper. As it is I doubt I will be joining you guys as a full member any time soon
Nazsteph - 7day'er with dreams of a full account
2003-11-07, 08:32 PM
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