Not much to add to this really, other than linking the video and asking you to watch it (assuming you haven't already come across this one).
I'm not going out on a limb and saying "by golly, he's right!" That would be pointless.
But it's still worth asking yourself if a tenner a month is worth it for what you're getting.
Ultimately, it's up to you. It has no real impact on me playing SW:TOR in the near future, but there's no doubt that Guild Wars 2 could well herald the end of this use of gaming developers as business cash-cows.
For that reason alone, I hope Guild Wars 2 works.
And, yes - I'll be playing it.
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Personally, I'd be pretty happy with the the sub-buys-you-every-expansion model. Particularly if it meant you get things like character transfers/renames etc for free.
ReplyDeleteMmm. I must admit, I've been thinking about this for a long time and (amusingly), you were one of my considerations. :)
ReplyDeleteTo keep the numbers round, you're paying £100 a year for World of Warcraft. Currently, the only form of legitimate character progression is through raiding, something you personally can't really manage at this moment in time. Therefore, what are you actually paying for if you can't play the raid content that the entire game is aimed at?
It's telling that those very same subscription fees add up to over three expansions worth of money. Are you getting that amount of content?
It depends what things they plan on charging for as extras, and what you get as part of the game. The suggested payments for character slots make me feel a bit suspicious - I play a f2p game which, if you want to have a reasonable amount of shiny things, makes you pay for quite a remarkable array of things and it can add up quite quickly if you don't pay attention. I'd rather have a nice, consistent subscription than deal with that in an mmo with all the crazy min maxing that tends to come with.
ReplyDeleteHowever - in general, yes, I'd rather be paying less than a subscription because it does feel a little bit like a rip-off (to use WoW as an example - mostly when there seems to be less and less content rather than the same or more). I'm just not convinced that games manufacturers aren't very eager to find ways to make the player base pay just as much.
Obviously, difficult to judge until all details are released! I'm going to stick with paranoia for now but would be delighted to be proved wrong. ;)
PS. With regard to what content I'm paying for - this is one of my major criticisms of the current game. I am convinced that there was just plain more to do in TBC and WotLK (presumably Vanilla as well) for non-raiders. While I'm willing to cut a certain amount of slack for Cataclysm due to the total overhaul of the old world questing (quibbles about difficulty aside) and the man hours required, if they don't step it up in Pandaland I'm thinking of moving my gaming time elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that you are the only one making that consideration, Hira.
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