How does guild wars plan to make money?

Jaged · 2005-05-05, 09:26 PM

This game looks awesome and I was planning to buy it, but then it struck me that no monthly fee is too good to be true. How do they plan to keep the servers running and the patch content comming, or do they? How do they plan to turn a proffit with this game?

Edit: Also, how does this skill based combat work that the brag about so much?

firecrackerNC · 2005-05-05, 09:30 PM

They made a pact with the devil.

Mag-Mower · 2005-05-05, 09:39 PM

No patches what so ever. None, no content updates at all. You have to buy expansion pack after expansion pack to keep up, thats how they keep making the money. I tjink its a bit unreasonable, paying $30 every few monthes for a bit of new content.

Jaged · 2005-05-05, 09:41 PM

What about bug fixes? If the game is unplayable oe has annoying bugs do you have to wait a few months for an expansion pack?

Mag-Mower · 2005-05-05, 09:45 PM

Most Likely not, if there is a bug, they will fix it. But you will not get anything new without purchasing an expansion pack. so, Bug Fix=Free Patch New Content=Expansion Pack

Derfud · 2005-05-05, 10:02 PM

If you think about it, what will be included in expansion packs is actually cheaper than paying a monthly subscription. Since Even if you want to keep playing with just what you have, you dont have to start paying again to do so.

Jaged · 2005-05-05, 10:06 PM

Does anyone know how often they will be released and how much they will cost? Then divide it out and have the "monthly fee". My guess is that its gonna come to around 12 bucks a month. Sound familiar?

Derfud · 2005-05-06, 02:29 AM

Even then, as I stated before. You dont NEED to buy the expansion to keep playing.

Corrosion · 2005-05-06, 03:02 AM

They have a program where you pay a certain amount a month and get some benefits... Like a glowing char..

Electrofreak · 2005-05-06, 05:45 AM

Sounds gay. (No offense Gio

)

hex222 · 2005-05-06, 10:59 AM

just patches like an FPS, good idea i think, if they have packed the game full of stuff for leveling up, new content shouldn't be a problem, i mean, i pay however much money for PS, it doesn't look like we're gonna get much new content from now on, and it doesn't work for me at the moment anyway...

Phaden · 2005-05-08, 09:50 AM

so how does the skill based combat work, if its not like a regular MMO (warcraft, FF, whatnot)?

Hamma · 2005-05-09, 12:28 PM

The graphic look ghetto - 1992 wants their game back

Giovanni · 2005-05-09, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by Electrofreak

Sounds gay. (No offense Gio

)

Me and Inf knew we'd get reactions, but I'm not gay. Far from it. We we're just bored and decided to make a fake cyber session to get a rise out of the population... and it worked!

Jaged · 2005-05-09, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Giovanni

Me and Inf knew we'd get reactions, but I'm not gay. Far from it. We we're just bored and decided to make a fake cyber session to get a rise out of the population... and it worked!

uuh hu... come out of the closet already will you