Never... Nowadays, when devs can't even justify the cost of their minimum fee subs with rapid content updates, paying a sub of 30$ is just not something I can imagine doing no matter how great the game is...

Originally posted by WightyF2P/B2P are the bane of western MMO's... Does nothing but breeds Sh*t communities of spoiled brats.

Oh, believe me, "premium" subscriptions and the like breed communities that are far, far worse.

"I'm paying more, you WILL grovel!  Or I'll scream like a six year old girl who can't have a pony!  And kick my feet!"

Originally posted by Spiider
Nope. 30$ a month would be way too much even for best game in the world. Imho.

I really hope that was sarcasm.  I can only guess it is.

Anyone who is really a gamer should be willing (not necessarily able to) to pay $30 per month for their dream game.  If a gamer ONLY played it two hours per day that would be 50 cents per hour for entertainment.  Their dream entertainment.  How could you not be willing to pay that?  Four hours per day means only 25 cents per hour.  

Of course everyone's dream game would be different but the author asked if it were YOUR dream game.  If it was my dream game then YES I would.  I would drop $60.  Hell even a $100.

  Im on the fence here..my perfect MMO would be perfect and not cost me 30/month

*edit*  But I guess I can swing 1/day for somethign that was truely amazing, though not perfect

Originally posted by korent1991

Never... Nowadays, when devs can't even justify the cost of their minimum fee subs with rapid content updates, paying a sub of 30$ is just not something I can imagine doing no matter how great the game is...

 

So, if you loved the combat, loved the everything, had daily small updates, weekly free adventure packs, monthly zone additions, a new free expansion pack every six months, no microtransactions etc etc you would not pay that?  roflcakes.

Sorry but no. I budget X number of dollars to entertainment per month and I won't take money away from what I currently am doing nor just put more money into that budget. If any MMO wants to try such a thing, they are welcome to try. However, I seriously doubt they would get enough subsribers to make a go at it.

Someone above made the comment that "f2p was the bane of western MMOs". I agree but not because they are supposed "free". The reason they are so BAD is because people expect EVERYTHING in a so-called MMO to be free. That is partially the fault of the "whinie freeloaders" but it is also the fault of the game companies for suggesting that a game is free by saying their particular MMO is "free to play". Companies WANT people to assume it is free and then play. They then are banking on the idea that if they play they will pay. Yes, free to play is a BAD thing not only for MMOs and gaming in general but for the gamer themselves.

I can see it now, an EA executive is reading a link to this thread thinking, "Yes, we'll make the perfect MMO and charge $30 a month - it'll be awesome."

Sorry Mr. EA, no you won't. And neither will anyone else, MMO's are barely worth their $15 sub fee these days (many aren't). Unless you find the Quality Improvement Fairy, I don't see any MMO being worth $30.

As to the OP title, you must be joking...not even WoW dared to increase it's monthly fee even when it was at it's peak.

Subscriptions to be competitive should lower to $4,99 instead, even for anyone's incredible MMO. Unless you think gamers are sheeple for example, theoretically speaking, you could call them a lot of things, like immature kids, arrogant teeenagers, unsatisfied older gamers...but sheeple nope!

Today's gamer , regardless of age, financial strength, has a gaming rig, not many can function, in order to play themselves without help. So by definition, it's rather too damn hard to trick this community into paying for crap MMOs, for long, if they don't even deserve it.

On the opposite side, the industry , has produced mediocrities that asked for 12-14,99 a month, and have flopped between 1-6 months.

The gamer community, with all it's weaknesses, has not yet lost it's good taste. Whenever the good, incredible MMO comes, it won't need to grab money way up high to 29,99 to make the difference, and pay the suit money grabbers.

Instead it's not what the community would pay, it's what the industry fails to give, and that is a triple AAA MMO, that is really a triple AAA MMO, and even that, ain't worth more than 9 bucks tops a month, with some older terms, not a penny more from a ticket to the movies, as was the talk, when WoW was launched...and it did work fine!

The only MMO that could dream of asking such a price, in it's prime was WoW, and they didn't...that should tell you something...not to be asking way more value than the one you sell:)

Originally posted by Averof

As to the OP title, you must be joking...not even WoW dared to increase it's monthly fee even when it was at it's peak.

Subscriptions to be competitive should lower to $4,99 instead, even for anyone's incredible MMO. Unless you think gamers are sheeple for example, theoretically speaking, you could call them a lot of things, like immature kids, arrogant teeenagers, unsatisfied older gamers...but sheeple nope!

Today's gamer , regardless of age, financial strength, has a gaming rig, not many can function, in order to play themselves without help. So by definition, it's rather too damn hard to trick this community into paying for crap MMOs, for long, if they don't even deserve it.

On the opposite side, the industry , has produced mediocrities that asked for 12-14,99 a month, and have flopped between 1-6 months.

The gamer community, with all it's weaknesses, has not yet lost it's good taste. Whenever the good, incredible MMO comes, it won't need to grab money way up high to 29,99 to make the difference, and pay the suit money grabbers.

Instead it's not what the community would pay, it's what the industry fails to give, and that is a triple AAA MMO, that is really a triple AAA MMO, and even that, ain't worth more than 9 bucks tops a month, with some older terms, not a penny more from a ticket to the movies, as was the talk, when WoW was launched...and it did work fine!

The only MMO that could dream of asking such a price, in it's prime was WoW, and they didn't...that should tell you something...not to be asking way more value than the one you sell:)

 

$4.99? It costs probably 89 cents just to process the order.
Another 25 cents to print out the required IRS paperwork, we've yet to even introduce infrastructure fee's, office space, server costs, bandwidth costs, customer service, employees, taxes, and the fact people do it for a profit...

US15 a month is already too much. I would never poay a cent more than 15 a month even if it goes to bed with me every night after a gaming season.

OP stop this nonsense threads, you know there are companies like EA out there that will take this topic personal and will assume everyone else will be willing to bend over to them just because you want to do it

THank you but no!!!!!!!!!

Most likely, no.

Devs would have serious issues trying to create a game worthy of a $30 price tag at launch. Just not gonna happen.

I'll pay $15 for an incredible game, just show me that game.

I'll just sit here twiddling my thumbs, waiting patiently. 

no question.  hell I would pay that price even for the weak games we have now, just to see what changes it made in the playerbase.

I'd pay even more for just 1 high quality MMO experience were the developers could afford to focus on their customers instead of wasting time trying to find ways to get anything they can from people who can't or won't pay to play their games.