WAR (Warhammer Online)

A lifetime account like in LotrO lets you pay a good amount of money, let´s say 150-200 $ when you first subscribe and you don´t ever pay a penny for the game again (except for big expansion packs)

My question for the WAR-community is:

I'm one of those lifetime members you speak of from LOTRO 

It was a nice thought, I wish I hadn't though.  I haven't played in over 2 months and I don't plan on going  back.  In terms of value. I really wasted my $199 lifetime membership on 4 months of play (5 and 1/2 if you count my beta time) at 15 bux a month thats  75 dollars. I stll haven't even gotten close to the membership fee I paid for.  That being said...LOTRO was a very nice game graphically but a big letdown on the crafting and mechanics.  I found that it just didn't have enough in the way of innovative game mechanics or PvP to capture my attention.  PvP was a farce to be honest.  I won't go in depth but let's just say it was either a zerg fest one way or another with many hours spent just staring (literally staring) at each other.

I wouldn't mind EA Mythic doing a lifetime membership but I would like to try it out for a month before I decided. In LOTRO they only gave the lifetime membership offer to pre-orders. They just recently came out with another lifetime membership offer but it is 100$ extra. (299 instead of the original 199).  So time will only tell.

I voted "Yes". Offering it would be cool, however I doubt I'd take them up on their offer. MMO's are so hit and miss. Very few MMO's are worth that amount of money (to me). Of the many MMO's I've played, there's only one that I would have made out on that deal.

No! I bought a lotro lifetime account and now i dont have a use for it. Its too alluring!

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Plenty of replies on this subject from Mark Jacobs.

I think it hurts the game progress in the long run. Just theorycraft here, but if everyone bought a lifetime account for the game then after around 14 months, there would be no income coming to the game at all.

There would be income from the new players that sub and dont forget there are xpacs too. Also alot of gamers sub for less than a year so the company would probably get more money and all in the first couple of months as well to put in more development if needed.

If i could see myself playing a mmo for more than a year i would do it but i wouldnt take the lifetime sub blindly. Maybe if i had a chance to change my subscription after the first couple of months when i have a more clear view of the game

Originally posted by Remali

There would be income from the new players that sub and dont forget there are xpacs too. Also alot of gamers sub for less than a year so the company would probably get more money and all in the first couple of months as well to put in more development if needed.

If i could see myself playing a mmo for more than a year i would do it but i wouldnt take the lifetime sub blindly. Maybe if i had a chance to change my subscription after the first couple of months when i have a more clear view of the game

I voted "no opinion" because even if they did it wouldn't affect me!

If I see a company offering lifetime subscriptions, then I know they are not confident that their product can retain subscribers over the long run.