It all depends the game.  For games with less MMO-ishness (Guild Wars), I wouldn't pay a monthly fee.  I REALLY like alternative subscription payment methods (lifetime subscription during open beta (LOTRO)), but am not a big fan of free play but charge for content.

Get a job, too young? you probably get allowance.  Birthday presents? Christmas Presents? if your parents are restrictive buy the game cards, im 17 my parents dont even know that im paying regularly for games, but it doesnt affect them so they shoudlnt.

Originally posted by Glaudge

the monthy fee has GOT to go, i DONT CARE what the start price is i just want the monthy fee outa  there! why do mmorpgs have fees anyway? plz! my dad bans anything that: requires credit card and has a monthy fee to add to our already long list of bills!!   AND I LOVE MMORPGs!!!!!!!!!!!!!   WHY?!!!! i feel SOOO DEFEATED!!! WHY???!!! I'll get this game on sight no mater what the dang start price is! the monthy fee has got to go!       manditory.      PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

NO MONTHY FEES!

Sorry to see you won't be playing

MMO's take alot of money to make, during the production time of the game millions of dollars are spent in the creation of the game. During that time no income is coming in, they have to rely on investors to make these games you know. When the game is complete those investors want a return on their investments.

I see that you mentioned your dad banning anything with a monthly subscription, that tells me your a kid who is probably yet to enter high school where you will learn about basic economics and further.

Why does gaming companies charge for their service, quite simply it is the following:

• Servers upkeep and upgrading (yes this cost money)
• Development staff that keeps fixing bugs and churning out new content ( you don't actually think they work for free do you)?
• Customer service staff (see directly above this)
• Web development team (keeps their website updated)

When you grow up, you will learn that nothing is free and that everything has a price.  If your old enough, mow a few lawns in your neighborhood at 15.00 a piece. In one week you could have enough to pay for 3 to 4 months of gametime.

When I was a kid I mowed lawns, had a paper route and did various odd jobs to make money. 

Problem today is kids like yourself expect to be given everything and to give nothing in return which teaches you nothing and prepares you to go into the world ill-equipped to deal with the problems you will face when your on your own.

Originally posted by Glaudge

the monthy fee has GOT to go, i DONT CARE what the start price is i just want the monthy fee outa  there! why do mmorpgs have fees anyway? plz! my dad bans anything that: requires credit card and has a monthy fee to add to our already long list of bills!!   AND I LOVE MMORPGs!!!!!!!!!!!!!   WHY?!!!! i feel SOOO DEFEATED!!! WHY???!!! I'll get this game on sight no mater what the dang start price is! the monthy fee has got to go!       manditory.      PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

NO MONTHY FEES!

you are the plain retarded one, do you not understand what it takes to run an mmorpg? a server to host a huge world with tens of thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people at the same time costs a lot of money. on top of that dev teams are always making new things for the game, it's like constantly developing a game not just a one time release and a bug fix here and there like console games or w.e. and they arent going to do that for free they have to get paid. you're lucky you dont have to pay by the minute or hour like some OLD mmo's did

Originally posted by RogueSeven

Originally posted by Glaudge

the monthy fee has GOT to go, i DONT CARE what the start price is i just want the monthy fee outa  there! why do mmorpgs have fees anyway? plz! my dad bans anything that: requires credit card and has a monthy fee to add to our already long list of bills!!   AND I LOVE MMORPGs!!!!!!!!!!!!!   WHY?!!!! i feel SOOO DEFEATED!!! WHY???!!! I'll get this game on sight no mater what the dang start price is! the monthy fee has got to go!       manditory.      PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

NO MONTHY FEES!

 

 

you are the plain retarded one, do you not understand what it takes to run an mmorpg? a server to host a huge world with tens of thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) of people at the same time costs a lot of money. on top of that dev teams are always making new things for the game, it's like constantly developing a game not just a one time release and a bug fix here and there like console games or w.e. and they arent going to do that for free they have to get paid. you're lucky you dont have to pay by the minute or hour like some OLD mmo's did

LOL I remember the credit system on the old BBS network. Games like MajorMUD I would spend nearly 18 hours a day playing.. I ran up over 150 a month just for that game alone. Those were the days..

You wanna play MMOs get a job and stop bugging daddy. The makers of these games need to make money to keep the game going!

  Have you heard about those things you can get called jobs? Go get a newspaper round kid. You can't start  early enough to learn the value of money you worked hard for. If not that, then surely you must get an allowance each month for doing chores around the house? Instead of spending all that, then expecting your parents to fit your MMO bills why don't you save some of it towards buying a game time card for the MMO you wish to play? 

I don't vote... Im against monthly fees, arenanet is doing good without them but currently all good games 'cept Guildwars have fees so I'm still paying... When a real good MMO without fees comes out I will stop, right now I guess that game will be GW2.

I don't believe for a second that Blizzard uses more than a buck/player of the $15 for updates, servers and so on. The rest just goes in their pockets. And they still takes money for the expansions...

Monthly fees will become a thing of the past... Guildwars have sold over 5,5 millions copies (and that was 3 months ago, don't have current numbers) and much of that is because they don't have monthly fees. The other reason is that they have some of the worlds best programmers including Jeff Strain (Diablo, Warcraft 3).

A game without monthly fees will get a bigger playerbase but they might still earn less bucks, they will have to release a expansion every year. If Darkfall releases without fees I will buy it, I doubt I will if they will take 15 bucks.

Monthly fees (or P2P) is become less and less attractive. When there were few players in the market, P2P was a way to lock in stable income. Now, with more and more options available in the MMO Market, F2P is taking a much larger share.

In fact, even Blizzard has stated that F2P is the future of the MMO market, and that not going F2P in asia was a big mistake, that ended up costing them a lot of money.

More and more AAA games are going to be coming out with a F2P business model, as it allows them to reach critical mass both faster and cheaper. It also provides a more flexible business model, which can be optimized for specific market demands.

P2P is in fact a death sentence for many small to mid sized games, and as such will actually cause the game to fail, when a F2P model would greatly improve the chance of sucess, and the overall revenue earned.

Originally posted by Superman0X

Monthly fees (or P2P) is become less and less attractive. When there were few players in the market, P2P was a way to lock in stable income. Now, with more and more options available in the MMO Market, F2P is taking a much larger share.

In fact, even Blizzard has stated that F2P is the future of the MMO market, and that not going F2P in asia was a big mistake, that ended up costing them a lot of money.

More and more AAA games are going to be coming out with a F2P business model, as it allows them to reach critical mass both faster and cheaper. It also provides a more flexible business model, which can be optimized for specific market demands.

P2P is in fact a death sentence for many small to mid sized games, and as such will actually cause the game to fail, when a F2P model would greatly improve the chance of sucess, and the overall revenue earned.

sure, it is POSSIBLE that it would make more money, but how would this be done? 2 words: item malls

the stupidest idea EVER it gives people an advantage over others because they have the deepest pockets while paying the 15 dollars a month would give everyone an equal chance in the game, would take skill to actually fight and get whatever gear/gold you need not just buying ten thousand gold and the latest and greatest tier 2935283957948572 gear

Originally posted by Superman0X

Monthly fees (or P2P) is become less and less attractive. When there were few players in the market, P2P was a way to lock in stable income. Now, with more and more options available in the MMO Market, F2P is taking a much larger share.

In fact, even Blizzard has stated that F2P is the future of the MMO market, and that not going F2P in asia was a big mistake, that ended up costing them a lot of money.

More and more AAA games are going to be coming out with a F2P business model, as it allows them to reach critical mass both faster and cheaper. It also provides a more flexible business model, which can be optimized for specific market demands.

P2P is in fact a death sentence for many small to mid sized games, and as such will actually cause the game to fail, when a F2P model would greatly improve the chance of sucess, and the overall revenue earned.

P2P mmo's are not becoming less attractive. The only ones that don't like it are spoiled little bratty children who think they are owed everything. Basically most of this generation of kids (Thanks to our government and the politically correct crowd).

No game has failed because it was pay to play, games fail because they fail to deliver content, excitement and most of all competence is getting rid of bugs/exploits.

let me explain something here, if every game was free to play you would have those item malls where you would end up spending alot more then 15.00 a month to get your charaters geared up and able to complete with people that had tons of money to just waste.

Ya, taking a 27 million dollar loan to develop a game and then putting it up for free would be a smart bussines move... Maintaining servers and a site, patches, GM staff... All this isn't free you know. Plus, not being able to use a credit card isn't a problem, there most probably will be pre-paid game cards.