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• • Down with monthly fees

  • I went to Indiana Jones last week.... ticket and snacks were just over 20.00.  I was there for just over 2 hours. Works out to about 10.00 an hour.

    I pay 30.00 for a 60 day game card for WOW. I play about between 5 and 10 hours a week ( on the weekends mostly ) for a total over 2 months of 40 to 80 hours.  Thats 75 cents an hour or less.  I'm not sure about anyone else, but I think thats a fair price to pay for a decent game.  I don't feel pressured to play since its only 75 cents ( my kid takes more than that from my pockets for his piggy bank most nights.

    I'll pay a fee as long as the games are worth it... 75 cents is a pretty good deal to me.... I'd hate to think what its worth to a hardcore gamer...  1 or 2 cents an hour, if that.  

     

  • Posted: 5/28/08 3:04 PM
    General Discussion
• • balance methods I would use for a skill system

  • Balancing skills would be alot harder I would think....

    Adamantine pointed out that both the " Cleric " type player and the " Paladin " character are both using the same heal... so you come along and raise the mana cost to balance it with some other spell.

    The problem is that now while the Pali is ok, since he uses his mana during the fight only for that heal spell.  The cleric on the other hand has cast a few heals, and now is short of mana for a rez...

    So you might have adjust the cost of the ressurection spell.... or boost the health return of the heal?  

     or give people more HP so less heals are used... or maybe boost armors ability to reduce damage taken...

    You might have to adjust the mana return rate...

    Point is that with classes there are set combinations of spells working together. You know the purposes of the classes involved ( healer for the cleric , holy warrior for paladin ).  There is a smaller number of  abilities that need to be considdered to balance the heal within those two classes.

    Hrmm. that was alot longer than was neeeded, but I talk to much normally, so... whatever. Blame it on being awake for the last 15 hours with bedtime still 4 hours away.

     

     

  • Posted: 5/28/08 10:18 AM
    Developers Corner
• • Wow doesnt have 10m

  • active prime time players is what the graph is showing... I guess I dont count, since I dont play during primetime hours... so maybe you should add one more?   Oh... make that 2 more... my wife doesn't play during prime time... or her brother... or the three guys I work with....

    Hrmm. maybe a graph showing total paid subscriptions would be a better indicator? 

    But I would imagine you wouldn't like your "proof" anymore, would you...

  • Posted: 5/26/08 11:51 AM
    World of Warcraft