you have no idea what you are talking about...how about you become informed on a topic before you make a thread... Ill use old school wow for an example...with out the monthley fees you would have not had ZG, AQ20, AQ40, or Naxx...that is more than 2/3 of the end game...i can say you definately were not and end game player...World of Warcraft SHOULD HAVE NO MONTHLY FEES!
I agree it should have no monthly fees
the amount of new content and changes justifies the monthly fees. some of the bigger wow patches have more content then a standard $50 game.
Never got into WoW because of their monthly fees.
To maintain the servers they have to charge this and of course to make a profit. Aswell as bringing out all the new content so people don't get bored. I stopped playing though because of the balancing issues with the new death knights. IMHO they made the new death knights so powerful to make everyone buy the expansion.
They definitely do not have any real incentive to stop charging a monthly fee. It's like they are printing money. I don't quite understand why $15 a month has become the industry standard across the board, but whatever.
Guild Wars 2 aims to be a full-fledged MMORPG without the subscription fees, but that won't be out for probably at least two years, and it is yet to be seen just what exactly it ends up being.
I'll tell you why there are monthy fee's...because blizzard knows they can charge gamers $15 a month and they'll fork it over in a heartbeat. Is it a ripoff?, it depends how you look at it. Blizzard spends countless hours patching WoW and doing regular maintenance on it. Now I've only tried to free trial of WoW myself and It just wasnt for me.Its just good business.
Err... it would be a HUGE price to pay, do you have ANY idea how much it costs to constantly update the game and bandwidth cost?
Maintaining an mmorpg + always releasing content to it by the use of an organized and big gaming company with a good number of employees = Outcome , to compensate for this outcome you have the small monthly fee of 15$ .
Without the income there would be too much outcome and therefore making the game just a moneypit and forcing blizzard to shut down WoW .
like in real life , you get a job to compensate for your outcomes etc...
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blizzard would never take out the fees as they make a boatload of money from it :P and running all those servers isnt cheap ya know the total cost for running wow since 2004 has more then 200 million dollars!!! altough i do wish the standard fee for mmo was lowered 15$ a month is a bit pricey IMO
Whether or not it should be pay to play is irrelevent. People already pay to play and will continue to do so as long as WoW continues to be the standard all other MMO's strive to overtake. Make money while you can. Eventually this money machine will die and Blizzard will have to replace it.
MMO with Monthly fees = the epitome of Capitalism.
I agree to an extent, and as such I don't play it, but its just business. Yes I'm sure it costs an absolute fortune to maintain, update and get the servers or whatever but I am also sure they make an absolute fortune on top of that. But as I said its just business (a very good one at that) and they surely are not going to get rid of/lower subscription fees because people don't particularly like them (unless an epic revolt happened and everyone boycotted the game, which will never happen). Its the same in every business though mate look at something like TVs, an extra few hundred pounds (or dollars) for an extra inch in size, I bet you the difference in production costs is next to nothing or add one more scart input and increase the price by 20%. Thats capitalism for you, but at least we're not dirty commies eh?
Too late. the experiment has already been done. They released it with monthly fees, people took the bait, and now the studies show that they can milk you of your money.
It's a lot to do with the upkeep that it takes to run an MMO, plus they want profit. If you made a game, sold it for $50 and then over the next 4-5 years raked in $15 a month of around 10million people, would you give it up? Didn't think so
It costs a lot of money to keep the servers running,,,do your research before posting.
including the initial price of one high end server is around 40,000$+.
[QUOTE=''SpaceMoose'']Guild Wars 2 aims to be a full-fledged MMORPG without the subscription fees, but that won't be out for probably at least two years, and it is yet to be seen just what exactly it ends up being.[/QUOTE]I personally cant wait for it. But I got many games (including Guild Wars) to keep me busy until then. Actually even if WoW was same as GW with no monthly fees, I still wouldn't play it.
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