Originally posted by Supernerd
hey i prefer to call it pop and i drink from a bubbler okay? i live in the real world
im not trying to argue with you guys,i was just making a suggestion and hopefully,
IF Funcom decides to charge 19.95 a month
by that time you should be okay with it.
Cause it will be well worth it just like you said.

either way it goes let the mmo world charge me 19.95 a month. (can you say canceled supscriptions)  thats 239.40 cents i can use on games that dont have a subscription fee. Internet 50dollars then this 20 dollars 70 dollars a month to play this game HA it will never see my 50dollars when it comes availible. Im still angry that they changed EQ, AC from 9.95 to 12.95 then to 14.95.. There gettin ridiculous with these games charging so much money to maintain somthing that doesnt cost a 1/4 of what we pay. Each mmo good or bad has a base close to 20k players. And that at 14.95 is equal to 299,000 then that times a 12months is 3.588 million. You can not tell me it costs that much money to maintain servers and the few personal u keep on board and thats if the game only has 20k players. WoW has 8million so they make BILLIONS each year now. So i say F a dang monthly fee increase it needs to be decreased. So you stay eating your snickers and leave everyone else out of your fantasy to pay more

After re-reading the original posters comments, I have come to the conclusion that he is a troll and is trying to stir up some trouble and flames. He has played all the proper cards and failed to get the response he desired, he has failed as a troll.

I reluctantly have to agree with the OP on this one.
Reluctantly because I also would not pay more than $15/month to play an online game.
But the truth is they have stated they are targeting this game to an mature (adult) population.
In addition to the sexuality and violence, blood, etc.
Therefore, mature may mean higher monthly fees too.

19.95 is frickin rediculous!  I don't care what the game is, that's too much.  I'm gonna laugh my ass off when people start playing AoC paying 20 bucks and then realizing that it sucks.  I'm not saying it will suck, but all these other "awesome" MMO's that came out, ended up sucking.

So...if AoC really will be 20 bucks a month, count me out.  There are other just as good games coming out, that will be cheaper.

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by Supernerd
hey i prefer to call it pop and i drink from a bubbler okay? i live in the real world
im not trying to argue with you guys,i was just making a suggestion and hopefully,
IF Funcom decides to charge 19.95 a month
by that time you should be okay with it.
Cause it will be well worth it just like you said.

either way it goes let the mmo world charge me 19.95 a month. (can you say canceled supscriptions)  thats 239.40 cents i can use on games that dont have a subscription fee. Internet 50dollars then this 20 dollars 70 dollars a month to play this game HA it will never see my 50dollars when it comes availible. Im still angry that they changed EQ, AC from 9.95 to 12.95 then to 14.95.. There gettin ridiculous with these games charging so much money to maintain somthing that doesnt cost a 1/4 of what we pay. Each mmo good or bad has a base close to 20k players. And that at 14.95 is equal to 299,000 then that times a 12months is 3.588 million. You can not tell me it costs that much money to maintain servers and the few personal u keep on board and thats if the game only has 20k players. WoW has 8million so they make BILLIONS each year now. So i say F a dang monthly fee increase it needs to be decreased. So you stay eating your snickers and leave everyone else out of your fantasy to pay more

A premium game.
Age of Conan will be the Lexus,BMW, the Cadilac of mmorpgs.All other mmorpgs will have to bow down and future mmorpgs will only hope to obtain the same quality.
A premium game with a premium subscription.

Originally posted by mach789
I reluctantly have to agree with the OP on this one.
Reluctantly because I also would not pay more than $15/month to play an online game.
But the truth is they have stated they are targeting this game to an mature (adult) population.
In addition to the sexuality and violence, blood, etc.
Therefore, mature may mean higher monthly fees too.

Yes ,someone here really gets it. i am glad.
A mature game for mature players would only naturally cost a tiny bit more per month.

if you can't afford a Premium/Mature game....like has been mentioned already -
there's plenty of crappy games that cost less per month and/or are free.

Guys don't you see i am suggesting this for OUR own good .
It will help us in the long run,just go with the flow guys,this is a good idea.

This is for our own good.... it's a good idea.... right.  Go ahead and stop looking out for us. 

This guy's the Jim Jones of MMOs apparently.

So rendering tits or some red blood equates to 5 more dollars a month? That's not mature

Originally posted by Unicorns_Pwn
So rendering tits or some red blood equates to 5 more dollars a month? That's not mature

You missed the point. The developers themselves are building this game with adults in mind.
It's only natural that a targeted adult audience will have more funds in the bank = higher monthly fees
Put yourself in the developers or publishers shoes.

Where are your facts that it will retail for this much per month?

Link pLz

Otherwise stop blantantly shit stirring.

 

Just to avoid any unnecessary confusion...from the FAQ on the Offical Website

 

Also most people believe that this game's subscription will be $14.95USD per month with the first month free.

$19 a month is not consistant with the same prices of the majority of other online mmorpg's :)

Mature adults usually have bills to pay.. car payments, house loans, health insurance policies, life insurance policies, taxes, possibly even kids. I don't think that they really just want to throw away so much money on a game because it has tits and blood, those small additions are basically only visual changes to the exact same experience.. once you've seen it once it becomes old hat.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Where are your facts that it will retail for this much per month?

Link pLz

Otherwise stop blantantly shit stirring.

 

Just to avoid any unnecessary confusion...from the FAQ on the Offical Website

1.6 Will we have to pay a subscription fee to play? Yes, there will be a monthly subscription fee. The price is yet to be determined, but will most likely follow the norm of the genre. The first 30 days of gameplay will be included when you purchase the retail box.

 

Also most people believe that this game's subscription will be $14.95USD per month with the first month free.

$19 a month is not consistant with the same prices of the majority of other online mmorpg's :)

it's just a suggestion.
This isn't every other mmorpg.
This is Age of Conan.

which is yet another mmorpg with very little new to offer

Originally posted by Unicorns_Pwn
Mature adults usually have bills to pay.. car payments, house loans, health insurance policies, life insurance policies, taxes, possibly even kids. I don't think that they really just want to throw away so much money on a game because it has tits and blood.

True.
I'm not supporting the $19.95 a month notion, I'm just saying it's a possibility.
Anyway we will find out for sure in the coming months.

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Take your pick. . .

Originally posted by Supernerd

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Where are your facts that it will retail for this much per month?

Link pLz

Otherwise stop blantantly shit stirring.

 

Just to avoid any unnecessary confusion...from the FAQ on the Offical Website

1.6 Will we have to pay a subscription fee to play? Yes, there will be a monthly subscription fee. The price is yet to be determined, but will most likely follow the norm of the genre. The first 30 days of gameplay will be included when you purchase the retail box.

 

Also most people believe that this game's subscription will be $14.95USD per month with the first month free.

$19 a month is not consistant with the same prices of the majority of other online mmorpg's :)

it's just a suggestion.
This isn't every other mmorpg.
This is Age of Conan.

 

No shit!

So why the misleading title, why do we have people in here believing the game is going to be that much?

Next time might a suggest a better forum topic title that way people aren't mis-led.

Avery it's under game suggestions?
Guys it's just a few more cents per day,you can afford it.
Time for lunch, bbl

While thats too rich for my blood I dont think 20 a month would be an issue for their players.  The game is very adult and I dont think too many teens will be alowed to play by their parents anyway.  15 is the norm and that is whats most likely imo.

Why does higher monthly cost  = Adult / Mature. That's a completely ignorant thought. Nor can anyone here list any reason that would make this game worth any more to play a month than any other game out on the market. To sit here in this thread and rally behind paying more to play a game is fuckin retarded. Why don't you just ask conan subscribers to take it in the ass too, cause you know, it'll only hurt a little in the beginning. People need to stop believing that the same service under a different name is worth any more than the next. Companies only raise prices when they see that customers are ignorant enough to keep paying more for the same service.

sorry to say but if i am to pay 20 instead of 15 thats a 33.33% increase (roughly ) therefore i should expect

server stability to increase 33%
lagg decrease 33%
GM availability increase 33%
graphics increase 33%
Gamplay increase 33%
world size increase 33%
and i can keep going

so unless the game's quality is also increased 33% on all aspects and not just because they have a new concept its not worth paying 33%

First of all, AOC is just a game.  It is not the savior of the MMORPG genre, it will not be perfect.  There will be people who dislike it.  It will not sell more copies than WOW did.

If any game could raise their monthly fees it would be a major player like WOW who sets the bar...not a new game just coming out of the blocks like AOC will be doing.

And don't think prices will stay at $14.95 forever, they won't.  People forget, it wasn't that long ago that 12.95 was the standard monthly fee, the current standard will one day rise.

But I don't see it jumping up to $19.95..... more likely it will be a small bump, like 15.95 or 16.95.... or they'll try to sell us premium features like VG did. 

I even think we'll one day see premium accounts, with special features and benefits (mostly cosmetic) only available to those willing to pay for them.

Originally posted by Supernerd

Originally posted by TedDanson

Dude, you eat 4 snickers a day? Thats friggen disgusting, and shows your lack of self control towards spending money wisely.....that or you are just a fatty mc fat fat.

nope just have 2 after breakfast and then 2 at nite before bed,but i usually goto bed after midnite so.......
Guys don't you see i am suggesting this for OUR own good .
It will help us in the long run,just go with the flow guys,this is a good idea.

So wait, tell us all again how this will "help us in the long run"? You just keep saying that it's for our own good over and over, but fail to cite how exactly giving them 5 more dollars a month is going to benefit me. First off, you don't even know if the game is good so your arguement that it will show other companies that we will pay higher for better products is flawed. What if we all buy the game, and it sucks? What does that show the producers then? That we are all stupid and buy anything that we are TOLD is innovative and new? So basically what you are suggesting is that we all spend more money in order to prove to game companies that we will in fact CONTINUE to spend more money in the future on games that don't necessarily need to be good as much as hyped....

And 2 snickers before bed is a disgusting idea. You are going to end up killing yourself like that my man.....

a very good point. When they say that conan has mature themes.. unfortunately that's going to  be more desirable to someone under 18 than a true adult playing the game... fuck polygonal tits, seen plenty of em in real life.. the only way I see this game as being truly mature is if maybe once very month I have to figure out my ingame taxes and go get a prostate exam on my character every 10th level.

The logic on this is honestly flawed from the get go. The OP states that prices of things like candy bars and sodas go up so why not MMO's. Well the problem there is that prices of food goods go up largely in part to prices for shipping. Shipping costs go up largely in part due to the cost of gas. So if costs for this game were going to go up I would think logic would dictate that the game would be more expensive off the shelf NOT at the subscription phase.

At times 15$/mo is hard enough to want to pay especially considering many games lack good monthly content or anything worth paying for. Too many MMO's coming out feel little different than you're playing a single player game and that's definately not even worth the 15/mo. let alone a 20-25/mo. sub. 

The truth is, as stated earlier, the only thing i've seen for Age of Conan that's different, other than the fact it's based around the whole Conan thing, is the combat system. That alone hardly warrants a price hike. If they were to have significant monthly story lines and interactive events and other such goings on, as well as steady monthly updates bringing in new content on a regular basis THAT might warrant 20/mo. But considering, as in every other game, players would be lucky to get 1/2 that 15/mo. will probably suffice, if not the the (now) less common 12.99.

But, also as stated earlier, I think the OP is little more than a Troll looking for some action. Especially since now his argument seems to have degraded to little more than "But this is Age of Conan! *splooge*" Boobs and blood don't warrant "adult oriented" or a price hike. I don't know many adults who are really all that keen on pixel boobs, to me that's geared more to enticing teenagers to lie to the folks and take a look. And this is hardly the first game with either of those things, when Neocron first came out it had topless and naked strippers and, of course, blood. It's sub at the time was 9.99.

If I get quality I'm willing to pay more. Considering currently I can't be arsed to even play an MMO I'm having trouble even finding standard quality let alone something exceptional.

Originally posted by Unicorns_Pwn
a very good point. When they say that conan has mature themes.. unfortunately that's going to  be more desirable to someone under 18 than a true adult playing the game... fuck polygonal tits, seen plenty of em in real life.. the only way I see this game as being truly mature is if maybe once very month I have to figure out my ingame taxes and go get a prostate exam on my character every 10th level.

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