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Hellgate: London
Mo:
--- Quote ---Uh, nope, don't think so. So consider it a $200 lifetime subscription with game included.
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Thats crazy.
Anheg:
Thats crazy...
I hate being stuck with less options than other people and I dont have 200$ for a videogame. Guess Hellgate is not for me.
420:
Well, you don't have to buy a subscription to play the whole game free online.
Also, while it sounds expensive as one lump sum, the $150 founder's fee is equivalent to buying 15 months worth of the pay-to-play subscription. So if you think you may play this game longer than a year and 3 months it would cost less to pay the one time fee up front.
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Mo:
--- Quote ---Well, you don't have to buy a subscription to play the whole game free online.
Also, while it sounds expensive as one lump sum, the $150 founder's fee is equivalent to buying 15 months worth of the pay-to-play subscription. So if you think you may play this game longer than a year and 3 months it would cost less to pay the one time fee up front.
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Yes except that I don't pay to play games online. So 2 months would be a little too much.
420:
--- Quote ---Yes except that I don't pay to play games online. So 2 months would be a little too much.
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Well, as you know, Throbble and I are both vehemently against the whole concept of pay-to-play games. We've discussed the issue with gamers and game makers for years and we always came to the same conclusion: We'd rather pay one large, lump sum up front for lifetime access rather than allow our funds to be drained monthly for as long as we want to play the game.
Consider this fictional Diablo 2 scenario. Let's say that when Diablo 2 was announced in the late 90's Blizzard said that it was not financially feasible to host a game as huge and complex as D2 on Battle.net for free. Let's say they decided they would charge $10 a month to play Diablo 2 online.
Now, Throbble and I have been playing D2 online continuously since it was released (2000), for simplicity sake we'll say it's been exactly 7 years to the month. That means each of us would have spent $840 to play Diablo 2 for the past 84 months. Considering this, we would both be happy to slap down $150 a piece up front for lifetime access.
That's the basic argument behind the option of paying the lump sum.
But Hellgate isn't really pay-to-play anyway since the entire single player game is free to play online and there is no restrictions stopping non-subscribers from playing with subscribers.
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