I'd only play 30 bucks for a game where I actually WAS my character, and the tech for that is a decade or so away.

Even then it'd have to be really fucking good.

The question doesn't make much sense.

The subscription we have to pay monthly goes towards the salaries of the devs proportionally. We aren't paying for the idea or someone to make the game, you are asking if the game exist already.

So no, $15 sub is worthwhile for the salaries of the devs.

On the other hand, I am more than willing to pay the extra $14.99 a month in the forms of cash shop if the game is THAT good.

But remember no game will ever perfect, just because a game is in your head doesn't necessarily mean it is the game that you will enjoy the most.

Originally posted by Betaguy
If they brought back SWG-PreNGE I would pay 100 bucks a month...

I'll be honest here, I don't see what was so good about swg back then, I tried the game and thought it honestly was pretty shitty least the combat aspect of it, the combat in swg way back was just kinda stupid, pretty much was spam the same skill over and over for 2-3 mins to kill 1 thing. The quest system was also kinda stupid since it was all just random shit from a terminal, doesn't feel all that epic grabbing missions from a terminal and doing them all day. Needless to say I never played long.

Never. I will never pay a monthly subscription ever again. WoW was enough. I don't care how perfect the game is. I don't care how much content there is (Unless it is a new game every month). It's stupid to pay out for a game to own and then pay a monthly fee on top of that that adds up in 2 months to more than the game costs to own.

I know how to do math and I know when you're stealing my money. Paying for something over time and getting no returns is like handing over your wallet to the company and hoping they eventually return it to you.

Originally posted by Rossboss

Never. I will never pay a monthly subscription ever again. WoW was enough. I don't care how perfect the game is. I don't care how much content there is (Unless it is a new game every month). It's stupid to pay out for a game to own and then pay a monthly fee on top of that that adds up in 2 months to more than the game costs to own.

I know how to do math and I know when you're stealing my money. Paying for something over time and getting no returns is like handing over your wallet to the company and hoping they eventually return it to you.

what if you were getting returns?

Nope because then all the other developers will follow suit

Could a game be worth that much? Probably. Would it be a bad idea to support it? Most definitely

Then again if gamers really thought about their own best interests, we wouldn't have the amount of crap we have today. Gamers in general are not rocket surgeons that's for sure

"let subscribers have the power to vote f2pers out of the game, say perhaps after getting 10 negative votes they get a week ban. 2nd time it happens 2 week ban and so on. Would totally make the sub fee worth it and strongly encourage people to sub since they would be immune from penalty."

(Raises pitch fork) Lets get us some F2Pers! :D

Originally posted by Scot

"let subscribers have the power to vote f2pers out of the game, say perhaps after getting 10 negative votes they get a week ban. 2nd time it happens 2 week ban and so on. Would totally make the sub fee worth it and strongly encourage people to sub since they would be immune from penalty."

 

(Raises pitch fork) Lets get us some F2Pers! :D

Ya! Let's get 'em!

I'd pay it for a great Sandbox world, huge, full of building and organizing, and full of exciting mysteries and Boss's that are played by the GMs and working with evul players (but not FTPers, no way I want their smell around my game *grins*) to take over all that I hold dear.

Oh, and talking llamas. Got to have talking llamas. Know it all talking llamas.

I definately would if the game was worth 30 bucks a month, I would have no problems with 50 a month if it was the best MMO I had ever played and had the longevity that current MMOs lack.

Hell, I spend about 100 a month buying single player games since there is no MMO out now that I am the least bit interested in playing.

I'd going to go with No. 

Back when I started with UO, I accepted this monthly fee.  I knew a lot of other people who refused to do so.   Not sure if they ever got around to playing any MMOs. 

But for a game to justify $15 these days it needs to be pretty darn good.   $30 a month just sends the wrong message.  At that point, it becomes a monthly utility like cable service....when will it end?

Originally posted by grimal

I'd going to go with No. 

Back when I started with UO, I accepted this monthly fee.  I knew a lot of other people who refused to do so.   Not sure if they ever got around to playing any MMOs. 

But for a game to justify $15 these days it needs to be pretty darn good.   $30 a month just sends the wrong message.  At that point, it becomes a monthly utility like cable service....when will it end?

 

 

I often think about how back in the mid-80's I would feed quarter after quarter into arcade games. Your first quarter equalled about 5 minutes of game play. After a week of force feeding quarters you could be one of the best, getting about 30 minutes of gameplay for that quarter. 

When you consider that a 15 dollar sub equals about 50 cents a day, for unlimited gametime; I'd say we have it pretty good these days. 

That being said, it is now the market standard, and so by some appearances it is what the market will bear these days. 

However, considering what was put into arcade games, when a quarter was actually worth more than today, so  at least at one time; the video game market bore a much higher price than todays mmo market; and personally I hope no one tries to re-create that Pac Man fever.

Originally posted by grimal

I'd going to go with No. 

Back when I started with UO, I accepted this monthly fee.  I knew a lot of other people who refused to do so.   Not sure if they ever got around to playing any MMOs. 

But for a game to justify $15 these days it needs to be pretty darn good.   $30 a month just sends the wrong message.  At that point, it becomes a monthly utility like cable service....when will it end?

 

 

Why should the utilties get all the money? You pay $100/m for TV because you accepted that... not based on worth. So you are okay with getting ripped off on TV, because thats a norm norm, and gaming isnt. so no, its not worth it. even though you probably spend 4 times the time gaming than watching tv