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• • Down with monthly fees

  • Down with this thread. If you REALLY believe that a high quality MMO can operate without monthly fees, then you know nothing about how MMOs operate. Guild Wars, a game that classifies as an MMO in only the barest sense, can do what it does only because its entirely instanced and the overhead is incredibly small, and the only additional content is provided via expansion. Games with persistent non-instanced game worlds with constant updates cannot afford to run without a fee unless you bog the game down with advertising to an invasive and painful level, and even then I would say it's a stretch. Hellgate London is instanced but does throw out the occasional patch to non-subscribers, but even they need some advertising to keep that going.

    The "free" MMO is a pipedream thought up by 13yr olds with no money who play games like Maplestory and go "WHY CAN'T ALL GAMES BE LIEK THIS!" Until developers and publishers can print money, it's not going to work unless you want an ad infested instanced mess, with few updates and low production values.

  • Posted: 5/27/08 10:56 PM
    General Discussion
• • My post Beta thoughts

  • Don't feed the trolls people. WoW troll is Wow troll. GB2 myfirstMMO

    And for the record, the "WoW like elements" you want them to add are exactly why MMOs now days suck.

  • Posted: 5/26/08 3:34 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Anti Griefing System - Bounty Hunters & Prisions in AoC

  • Not quite "unique." There is a russian MMO in development called Well Online that has had the idea for quite some time now. A whole player/NPC run police force and investigation system actually. But I'm sure Funcom will implement it first, I haven't seen much work Well recently /=

  • Posted: 5/24/08 10:26 AM
    Age of Conan
• • Lack of pet classes makes me a sad caster

  • ...btw he's not a goblin Archer..he's a SQUIG HERDER which is an actual Warhammer Class. ...

    Yes, but at his most basic level, as he uses a bow, he is not a mage, not a warrior, there for he is an archer. I was trying to get at how limited your choice was in regards to if you wanted to play a pet class, as not only are you limited in race, but you're limited by fighting style as there is no mage pet class option which is generally the norm.

    I'm aware they're trying to strike a delicate balance between the classes, however, I still believe that does not preclude having traditional pet classes.

     

     

  • Posted: 5/16/08 9:10 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • As a WAR beta tester, I'm happy to say...

  • Originally posted by WHCWrenn
    

    As far as the T-rating goes. This is confirmed.

    Mark Jacobs hangs out at my site quite a bit, and someone asked him about the rating in the shoutbox. I can't remember his exact words, but the Mark revealed that the T-rating had a lot to do with GW's wishes.

    Actually I'm not surprised. Likely the decision came down from somewhere in marketing in GW in that they don't want to lock the game into an older crowd because they want to get the younger generation into warhammer with the hope that they'll make the hop to the tabletop game or other franchises they own.

  • Posted: 5/16/08 8:33 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)