Cheap Planetside?

[Jarlo]

So has anyone been able to find PS for under $40? If so pleaes share! Most seem to be $49.99 which is way too much for a monthly cost game IMHO.

[Deadlock]

even though im still going to pay it, that is too much for somethin u gota pay for monthly anyways... sorta voids the 30 day free trial

[Melov]

Job2Win

[Rawker]

let's do a little math here.

$49.99 for the game, free first month ($10 + value)

$49.99 - $10 = $39.99

now stfu

[Feign]

Should be a longer free period at that price.

[Jarlo]

Rawker you are telling me to STFU because I think it costs too much? Look at just about any MMO game out there and they are $30 and under for the box because the money is in the monthly charge for sony. They are just being greedy bastages charging $49.99 for the g'd box we don't even need since we have the whole damn thing downloaded already!

Man the fanboi's here are rampant!

[Nubi]

50 - 15 = $35

Now of this 35 you have portion that goes to salaries, start up server costs, etc

Then you have the monthly fee which is to insure that they have money for the servers to run on and optimize them, also you have a portion that still pays salaries of GM team, and then you have a portion that's just pure profit

So it's justified

[Nubi]

Jarlo your asking them to give u a free game because ur a beta tester?

pfft yah, sure....

[CosmicBlend]

Thank god for employee discounts

[Jarlo]

Not free, just $30-35 for the worthless box, as nearly 100% of other MMO games are priced at release.

My main concern is that they are overpricing the box to get some fast cash becuase they are worried that subscription rates will not last.

And yes I know these are older games but--

DAOC $20-27
EQ Gold (5 or 6 CD's) $45
Anarchy On-line $20
WW2 on-line $20
Asheron's call 2- $25

See the trend? All of these come with a month free too. No biggie I'll just wait a month for the price to drop to $25-30 bucks. Weather is nice outside anyway

[Happy lil Elf]

DAoC on reLease 49.99, 39.99 if you found a place with a special. Same for AO, same for EQ, same for any other freaking game. The prices you're quoting now are the price that's charged after the game has been out awhile, same as any other freaking game.

It's going to be $50 initially and $12.95 per month after your free month is up. Get over it. And if you can't afford that? Tough cookies, go play something else

[Jarlo]

I can afford it, just don't want to. ANd yeah I probably will go play something else until it drops in price and bugs are ironed out.

And I think you are right, DAOC was $40 at release, that sounds right.

[Spider]

Wow seems we got some newbs with pms in this thread

*looks up to rawker*

[Rawker]

let's look at the development of this game.

-4 years in development (most games are 2, some games are pumped out every year over and over)
-brand spanking new game engine (alot of games use existing engines)

it would be fair for them to charge $100 for the game, but they aren't.

now stfu

[Jarlo]

LMAO $100, why not just send SOE a donation? You have more money than sense apparently Rawker.

Lemme guess, you gonna be TR right?



Edit: Now has anyone actually found it for cheaper than $50 ?