Originally posted by Wargoo
I think a guild wars option is the best for this game.  I don't see people flocking over (especially if there is a 14.95/mo fee).

Originally posted by Moirae

Originally posted by Wargoo
I think a guild wars option is the best for this game.  I don't see people flocking over (especially if there is a 14.95/mo fee).

What are you talking about? The $15 a month is the standard fee. Very few people are going to have a problem with it except for kids. $15 is the same amount of money it would cost to go to the movies once a month and you get many more hours of enertainment out of an MMO than you do out of going to a movie.

And, actually, alot of people are looking forward to Stargate Worlds, some even more than Star Trek Online. Because its Stargate.

They'll get alot of subscribers.

And GW is a terrible game. If they turned this into GW, most people would run. Except for the kiddies.

Originally posted by Wargoo

Originally posted by Moirae

Originally posted by Wargoo
I think a guild wars option is the best for this game.  I don't see people flocking over (especially if there is a 14.95/mo fee).

What are you talking about? The $15 a month is the standard fee. Very few people are going to have a problem with it except for kids. $15 is the same amount of money it would cost to go to the movies once a month and you get many more hours of enertainment out of an MMO than you do out of going to a movie.

And, actually, alot of people are looking forward to Stargate Worlds, some even more than Star Trek Online. Because its Stargate.

They'll get alot of subscribers.

And GW is a terrible game. If they turned this into GW, most people would run. Except for the kiddies.

i didn't say turn the game into GW.  i said the payment plan should be LIKE guild wars.  where people play for free and pay for expansions (content).

i just don't think many people would flock from their current MMO's over to stargate.  I see more people going to STO then SGO for sure.  If you think differently, then we'll just have to agree to disagree and see when they both come out, but I believe STO will be more successful.

Originally posted by Squal'Zell

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Originally posted by Kibs

As for the Guild Wars set up.  Well that isn't exactly much cheaper, if not even more expensive depending on how reguarly new expansions are brought out.  I have never liked this model either as it isn't really very flexible, and people think they are getting a free game when they arn't.  It can turn out being more expensive than the average monthly fee.  On the plus side it does encourage the devs to make sure they bring out good expansions, but there are other ways of motivating devs of course.

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i doubt guildwars will be more expensive than paying monthly fee
monthly fee game : 14.99 x 12 = 179,98$USD + retail  39,99$USD
thats 219.87$USD

Guild wars (expansions every 6 months so 1 game + expansion for 12 months)
Guild Wars Prophecies 39,99$USD  + GuildWars factions 49,99$USD thast 89,98$USD

P.S. all prices are taken from www.ebgames.com

Originally posted by -Killez-

Originally posted by Wargoo

Originally posted by Moirae

Originally posted by Wargoo
I think a guild wars option is the best for this game.  I don't see people flocking over (especially if there is a 14.95/mo fee).

What are you talking about? The $15 a month is the standard fee. Very few people are going to have a problem with it except for kids. $15 is the same amount of money it would cost to go to the movies once a month and you get many more hours of enertainment out of an MMO than you do out of going to a movie.

And, actually, alot of people are looking forward to Stargate Worlds, some even more than Star Trek Online. Because its Stargate.

They'll get alot of subscribers.

And GW is a terrible game. If they turned this into GW, most people would run. Except for the kiddies.

i didn't say turn the game into GW.  i said the payment plan should be LIKE guild wars.  where people play for free and pay for expansions (content).

i just don't think many people would flock from their current MMO's over to stargate.  I see more people going to STO then SGO for sure.  If you think differently, then we'll just have to agree to disagree and see when they both come out, but I believe STO will be more successful.

i don't think STO will be more successful then SGW, ST is a basicly a dead franchise and now they are hoping to revive it with a new movie but i think it won't do any good.

Stargate on the other hand is strong very strong in fact with a new third series and SG-1 movies being made not to mention another season of SGA already confirmed, and if you also look at the main site for SGW you will see that there are already 48 guilds that are just waiting for this game.

i think SGW will be way more Successful then STO, plus you have to factor in that SG-1 was on air for 10 years no ST show ever went that long.

plus SGW is coming out in 07 so i think SGW will beat them to market first

Originally posted by burbidge
My understanding is that Stargate Worlds is going to be available on the Xbox 360. Not sure how that would work if they charged a mothly fee, especially when many Xbox players already pay a monthly fee for Xbox Live.

It would work just how Final Fantasy 11 works. When you put in the game and boot up, it would direct you to a login server, where you would create an account and set up all the billing options for the monthly fee. I don't see too many MMO's being super popular on a console system. The 2 largest console MMO's that have been out, FF and EQOA have not been HUGE. I know that I have tried FF on the 360 and I hated it. But then again, I hated it when I played it on the PC as well.. But anyway.. It is viable for them to port it onto a console w/ fee's intact.

I agree that the monthly fee would root out younger kids and some of the more annoying people I've encountered on GW, but I don't want a monthly fee but if there is I'm willing to pay it.

Originally posted by jojo999

I think chapters is the best option becouse with monthly you will lose not only the people who aren't online so much but also the people who don't have that kind of money every month. and to make a quick rise( becouse of all the other good games comming 2007) it should be a good thing to keep your gamers online.

I agree on this one.  I have played a few MMO's but until Guild Wars I never played more that a few months because I don't play enough to justify a monthly fee.  Most of you on this site are hard core gamers, but how many people do you know at work or school who know your MMO?  I think the MMO genre has benifited from WOW's marketing blitz and I would like to see more people appreciate MMO's. 

ALSO, a chunk of the game industry (not MMO) revolves around gift giving, but I think people are reluctant to give a game that also requires a monthly fee.  A whole more units can be sold with no monthly fee.

POINT IS: will this be a game targeted at hard core gamers only?  OR will this game appeal to casual gamers and people who don't play games... yet?

Monthly fees with regular content patches. That is what I want to pay for.