Originally posted by Battlekruse

Funcom already started to use advertising in Anarchy Online where you must click on a Toyota Ad to finish quest.

"Good job on killing those robots, But you must first check out on the all new toyota highlander, it has 40 mpg!"

If they want to have any chance of bringing in new mainstream players, they have to price competitively.  As it is, most normal people think $14.95 a month is a waste.  If they don't care about broadening the genre, then I guess it wouldn't matter since nerds currently will pay and play games they can't stand just to have something to do.  If they go too far, people will go back to single player games or online games like Quake or, gasp,  start playing console games full time.

Red Light Center is already 20 a month.. now that one worth it lol

I am sorry, but I see no logic in your reasoning (if there was even any at all) for this suggestion - it seems to be just a random trolling.

If you had some economics behind it I would try to put my thought to this suggestion but unfortunately your suggestion goes against simple economics principles. If you suggest that paying 19.95 per month as a show of willingness to pay to the MMO industry in order to increase the standard or quality of service, then there is no backing for it; Since willingness to pay rises only from the necessity of the service. If you notice the previous posts they portray numerous accounts of an MMO not being a necessity and not even crossing into a boundary of luxury. Since for the product to be a necessity, that product needs to be so intrinsic to your survival or whatnot, such that the producer or provider of that product can easily price discriminate and set whatever price they wish. Also for the product to be a luxury it has to be overly demanded and the supply has to be either constricted or minimal. Since MMOs do not fall into either of these categories, they are considered a normal good. MMO industry would never be dumb enough to release a product with such a high price while knowing that current mmo market is saturated with a lot of mid to high  popularity titles that go for way less than what they are going to provide.  Also, with increase in price the demand drops ( simple microeconomics), which is inherently bad for the MMO producers ( as well as any product for that matter).

THe only time I would justify an increase in the monthly fees would be in the game had really performed well for a while and had a running track of successful, rapid and numerous updates as well as almost unending possibilities within the game - but that would be the "PERFECT" game and it is quite a subjective opinion anyhow.

That is why MMO industry think tanks and analysts came up with an intriguing idea of expansions as a burst investment strategy . Some -say SOE- gone a bit too far but well that is yet another of my bias opinions.

Alright, hopefully this post explains to you what WTP (Willingness to pay) is and that you should take some economics lessons if you wish to even discuss this topic.

P.S. oh and please stop eating so many snickers, if you eat this high amount of sugars after 12 am you will be fat just by the simple reason of getting a ton of energy into your body and not using it ; since, when you sleep or sit in front of the computer you do not utilize that energy and it builds up into fat.  (SORRY FOR A LOT OF RUN ON SENTENCES) - night all.

The thing is, that dolar has droped a lot toward euro in few years. Europeans already pay around 20 dolars for mmoprgs like World of Warcraft, since subscription is around 13 euros and 15-16 dolars. If they will adjust payment in AoC, so europeans and Americans will pay simmilar price for the same game, i have no problems with it at all.

HA wow.. i am a student looking for a mmo to play, and there is no way  hell id pay that much for a game... when i read what you said the first thing that came to mind was that you had to be paid to say that, it was that odd.

  I personally have a hard time justifying paying such amounts of money to a company who sells the game then makes you effectivly buy it again and again. EG: wow sell you the game then charges 9 MILLION ppl per month then also charges for expansions! WTF is that? EVE releases exansions free, and charges per month... much better. Guild wars just simply charges for expansions, why cant they all be like this!!!

 If  guild wars can make profit and not carge per month why then are we paying so much every month and every time an expansion comes out? Honestly, sure if they make a good game they should make decent amounts of money, but why charge allot if you dont need to? bit off topic i guess but id like to hear what others think on this.

Morgan

I got this idea...

How bout you go ahead and give them more money while I pay the regular price and just laugh at you.  OR better yet, how bout you just give me the $5 extra you seem to have rolling around in your pocket.  Because if you ask me I've done just as much as the gaming industry in deserving your money.

Go take an economics class and read up on inflation and why it happens.  In the end you've made some stupid posts in the past and this one is no exception.  All those Snickers must be keeping you up at night and that's where you find the time to exercise your backward thinking while on a sugar high.

Why don't you just walk into 7eleven and give them $6 for the snickers?  You obviously think that people should pay for quality and you think so highly of snickers.  Better yet why not go ahead and make it an even $10?

you charge higher than other MMO's and people will flock to the cheaper ones.  i have met many MMO players who play games by price and not gameplay (alot of them are WoW players)

This is a troll attempt or someone that really doesn't understand supply and demand. Either way this thread should be locked.

Every cheer and be happy because supernerd isn't the product manager!

I'm positive 100% if he was he be like "Well, everyone is making a lot of $$ these days, so rising the Age of Conan game itself to 100$ shouldn't hurt along with 20$ monthly fee shouldn't hurt". Spme people at this moment have quit and are mad that Age of Conan has a monthly fee around 10-15$ and plus rising prices only damages the subscribers which damages the marketing of the game.

This is the thread that never ends,

It goes on and on my friends,

Some people started posting in it, not knowing what it was,

and they'll continue posting in it forever just because......

This is the thread that never ends....

Well, you know the rest.

Couldn't help myself, I posted a response to this way back in May/June when this thread was current and topical. Now its just a necro thread that keeps rising from the dead and won't go away.

Doesn't look like many developers are going to break the current 14.95/mo model, and in fact, the trend recently has been to charge less (LotRO, HG:L etc) and not more.

Let's just hope AOC gets released early this year, I need something new to play.

Originally posted by xxreaper008

 

Originally posted by Battlekruse

Funcom already started to use advertising in Anarchy Online where you must click on a Toyota Ad to finish quest.

Did they really do that. I find that really funny.

 

 

"Good job on killing those robots, But you must first check out on the all new toyota highlander, it has 40 mpg!"

No, they did not.