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Funcom has announced today new discount rates for multi-month subscribers of Age of Conan.
Customers who opt for a three month subscription will receive a 20% discount (~$12/mo), six month subscriptions will receive a 30% discount (~$10.50/mo), and 12 month subscriptions will see a whopping 45% (~$8.25/mo) discount. Not bad! View the original announcement here. Michael "MikeB" Bitton |
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10/23/09 12:36:52 PM#2
wow i may be resubing sooner an for a year at a time then!very nice deal. "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." — Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant (1933) |
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Deadvolt
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Joined: 7/09/08
Revenge is best served cold, bullets however are best served hot. |
10/23/09 1:06:30 PM#3
Hopefully they can get by all the bad press they've recieveed by both players and critics. This game truly has potential, it was just released too early, with no end game. This won't do much though, I don't think. Ganking? Me!? That's absurd!! I leave THAT to the lawyers! |
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10/23/09 1:19:34 PM#4
As a consumer this is great news but unfortunetly some companies have made me wary of long term MMO commitments. I'd be much happier with a decrease in the monthly rate (on a per month basis). |
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10/23/09 2:10:20 PM#5
Originally posted by Suvroc
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Calm down...it's beta. These things are supposed to happen in beta. |
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10/23/09 2:13:55 PM#6
NOw - if this was WOW then it would be great news... Thing is... ITs not.... And gamers should wonder why. |
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10/23/09 2:39:23 PM#7
Originally posted by Suvroc
They could have made it 3 months for 9.99 just like LOTRO. I'm sure it will boost their subscription rate if it were that price. |
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10/23/09 2:53:13 PM#8
To me this just say we are desperate. Playing Darkfall EU1 Server |
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10/23/09 3:15:15 PM#9
I agree, I wouldn't give it more than three months at a time, it might not last that long lol. And $12 a month is still just too much imo. I'd pay $10...probably. This discount is not bringing me back, although I might check it out again in the future sometime (maybe once it's discounted again, lol!) |
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10/23/09 9:38:21 PM#10
Desperation before it hits free to play status. I remember when AoC had so much potential and sounded so cool. |
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10/23/09 9:48:18 PM#11
Good idea. Reminds me of LoTRO and their lifetime sub deal.
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10/23/09 9:54:15 PM#12
Originally posted by bigsmiff This /\
Agreed, I remember 3 or so months after launch the people disgusted with themselves for buying 6 months in advance. Its a good deal but ONLY if you know you'll be playing for a while. Most people with less than 2 months under their belt tend not to make much past that. |
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10/23/09 10:02:24 PM#13
The game still has potential, but considering how well it has been managed so far I really don’t feel it is worth more than five dollars a month as there are games with better execution that are free to play but with way better graphics than most. I have high hopes and fears for the upcoming expansion. I wish them good luck with the game.
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10/24/09 3:22:23 PM#14
Originally posted by Millsmate Ask Vanguard. Dark & Light. Star Wars Galaxies. You don't recover from a bad launch. MMO rule #1 |
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10/24/09 4:15:45 PM#15
Funcom, I think it's a great idea to lower the rates of your subscription, considering the lack of popularity of your game and the instense competition in this genre. However, I do not think it's near enough. First off, subscribing for multiple months locks us into 1 game during those months, because the majority of people do not subscribe to more than one game. For a game that's not popular, and has a lot of "bad word of mouth" advertising, it's a serious risk to commit to such a subscription. Also, while it may only be $12/mo for 3 months, it's still a whopping $36 up front for a game you're not sure you like enough to play for that long. In order to earn my interest, you'll have to lower your subscription fee down to $9.99 per month. |
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10/24/09 4:19:41 PM#16
Originally posted by ozy1
Not really . LoTRO has package deals and most game sites list it as the #2 or #3 MMO in the US for 2 straight yrs. |
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Longswd
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Joined: 4/22/06
Jesus saves.......the rest of the party takes 2D6 damage. |
10/24/09 4:50:02 PM#17
Originally posted by sfc1971
Exactly. No MMO that was pushed out too early has ever recovered to the point they could garner any meaningful subs long term. There's no shaking the bad odor. EQ is a somewhat grey area, it wasn't so much pushed out too early as the tech was still in the pioneering stage AND they grossly underestimated the interest in the game and didn't have the capacity to support it w/o tons of zone lag for the first few weeks.
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10/24/09 5:00:29 PM#18
Originally posted by sfc1971
Everquest 2? REALITY CHECK |
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10/24/09 5:05:20 PM#19
Not going to re-sub even if it is free to play. It will still remind the "last title I will ever purchase from Failcom" Even if they paid me that amount per month and I will still not going to play this 32GB (initial install) POS ever again. |
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10/25/09 7:58:00 AM#20
Originally posted by Thillian
Everquest 2? Ehm... are you agreeing or disagreeing? EQ2 is indeed a bit of a grey area, it is hard to decide wether it had a bad launch. It didn't compared to other SOE titles but a lot of people had NOT expected WoW to happen either. So it "failed" by the standards of a game launched later... So to me, EQ2 is the game that had an normal launch, then WoW changed the rules and EQ2 fails by those new rules. It is often hard to truly appreciate exactly what WoW has achieved. It has more active players then all those 174 mmo's combined (okay, that may be a lie, but you get the point). On a chart of subscribers, you can't put WoW because all the other MMO's will just blur into a brown line at the bottom. So, my point stands, EQ2 has NOT miracously gained 1 million subscribers, let alone 10 million since launch.
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