Would you pay a subscription?
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Nope. Done with subscription games. I wouldn't mind a few micro-transactions to help keep the servers up. (COSMETIC ones.) However, if they go monthly, then I'll just stick with SP.
Simples. NO!
Micro transactions yes.
Micro transactions yes.
I would really rather it wasn't subscription-based, but…and here's the thing…if it was the difference between Eand no E
for me if it was the differnce between paying a monthly fee for multiplayer and no fee for single player, single player wins everytime.
Nope.... and single player wouldn't be there because they wouldn't allow it as they'd lose money.....
No.
As it is I already pay for both myself and my partner to play WoW (and I dread to think how much I've sunk into that having played it since release).
I wouldn't pay for another subscription based game again, even if I stopped coughing up for WoW.
As it is I already pay for both myself and my partner to play WoW (and I dread to think how much I've sunk into that having played it since release).
I wouldn't pay for another subscription based game again, even if I stopped coughing up for WoW.
Why would I be willing to pay a subscription when the Kick starter said there would be no sub?
To add to the general chorus of disapproval, NO!
If there are funding issues, then go for microtransactions. Look at World of Tanks, completely free to play and funded entirely by microtransactions (admittedly you can buy tanks that cost as much as a full price newly released game). Guild Wars 2 doesn't see the need to be subscription based.
I'm not sure that there is even a market for another subscription funded game, as most of the people that would pay are already paying for WoW or Eve. one of the main reasons I didn't ever try Eve was monthly subscriptions put me off.
If there are funding issues, then go for microtransactions. Look at World of Tanks, completely free to play and funded entirely by microtransactions (admittedly you can buy tanks that cost as much as a full price newly released game). Guild Wars 2 doesn't see the need to be subscription based.
I'm not sure that there is even a market for another subscription funded game, as most of the people that would pay are already paying for WoW or Eve. one of the main reasons I didn't ever try Eve was monthly subscriptions put me off.
For a truly persistent MMO version of Elite without instancing?
Yes, of course.
The pledges are for developping the game until release, not for running the game. They will need additional income for that.
You don't have to p(l)ay 12 months a year.
When I think of the rubbish most people spend much more money on then £8.99 a month I can't believe this thread.
Yes, of course.
The pledges are for developping the game until release, not for running the game. They will need additional income for that.
You don't have to p(l)ay 12 months a year.
When I think of the rubbish most people spend much more money on then £8.99 a month I can't believe this thread.
take into account all the other costs involved and people are already shelling out at least twice that for internet connection before you account for the money they spent on their PC to run the game, it's not like the only cost is the subscription and people are aware that it costs a few hundred a month to run a couple of servers so object to the idea of being seen as a cash cow who will pay to play.
If FD stopped development and don't release any more add-on packs after EVA & PL keeping the servers up wont require thousands of pounds a week or the hundreds of thousands they would be making at £9 per month per user
Because it is a forum where people ask questions to gauge what the rest of the community thinks. I know Braben has said there would be no subscription but it was a hypothetical question.
I have never liked cash shops for items other than vanity stuff and I am not convinced that vanity sales alone would be enough to keep Elite: Dangerous going. Especially if they do want to keep doing regular updates with new ships, content etc... I am going to assume we are going to have to fund anything new via kickstarter so I suppose we will be paying one way or another.
For me personally, games that are free-to-play tend to be a shell of the larger subscription based games and no where near as polished. So if it meant Elite: Dangerous got regular updates, new ships, content, bug fixes and things to do. I would say YES!!!
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Well I once said that I'd never pay a subscription but I then played WOW for a couple of years and a spot of City of Heroes/Villains and I currently pay for Xbox live so I would pay a subscription if I felt I was getting value for money.
At this stage though unless FD come out with some compelling reason why we should pay a subscription I'd say no.
At this stage though unless FD come out with some compelling reason why we should pay a subscription I'd say no.
Subscriptions models do too much to diminish a community over time.
When someone gets bored of a free game they go away spend a month or two doing something else then can just start playing again. You will always get players drifting in and out, but there is no barrier to starting playing again.
Not so the subscriber game, a player has to be absolutely 110% sure that they will get their moneys worth to resubscribe, they cant just log in to to see how things have changed, or catch up with friends etc.
Ive been there many times myself where some news on a game has made me consider playing again, but not enough to pony up £10 on a whim. On the other hand with a F2P game I can just log in on a whim and it may just hook me again...
If single player is free would I really want to pay £8.99 a month to add some bags to the game to gank me from time to time?
Im all for free to play and micro transactions. Unlike most I can see that direct currency sales is a great way to go, getting rid of the illegal market and the problems associated with it, whilst giving a nice revenue stream, and still not being game breaking if the prices are set anything like sensible. An amount of credits that is usefull and helpful at the beginning can be sold at a sensible price, but would still make full on top level ships and equipment ridiculously over priced for all but one or two players to "buy" their way to the top.
When someone gets bored of a free game they go away spend a month or two doing something else then can just start playing again. You will always get players drifting in and out, but there is no barrier to starting playing again.
Not so the subscriber game, a player has to be absolutely 110% sure that they will get their moneys worth to resubscribe, they cant just log in to to see how things have changed, or catch up with friends etc.
Ive been there many times myself where some news on a game has made me consider playing again, but not enough to pony up £10 on a whim. On the other hand with a F2P game I can just log in on a whim and it may just hook me again...
If single player is free would I really want to pay £8.99 a month to add some bags to the game to gank me from time to time?
Im all for free to play and micro transactions. Unlike most I can see that direct currency sales is a great way to go, getting rid of the illegal market and the problems associated with it, whilst giving a nice revenue stream, and still not being game breaking if the prices are set anything like sensible. An amount of credits that is usefull and helpful at the beginning can be sold at a sensible price, but would still make full on top level ships and equipment ridiculously over priced for all but one or two players to "buy" their way to the top.
No subscription is not the same as saying that there will be no cost for playing the game online. And people are probably interested in how online servers are going to be financed.
I'm glad that there will be no monthly fee (subscription based). My game play is very sporadic. So it can go several month between times I play. And because of this a monthly fee would be total show stopper for me. Why would I want to pay x money for the month I don't play? This is the reason why I never started playing WoW.
Paying for gaming time on the other hand is something I would accept... If the rate was similar to the monthly subscription. I would never pay $15 every month to play a game. But I would pay $15 for 44640 gaming minutes (one month).
But hopefully they find better ways to finance the online servers. I would gladly accept ingame advertising from real life companies if it meant that I never had to pay a cent to play the game. As long as the advertising does not stop the game play. Ads on bulletin boards and screen walls with ads or big "space screens" outside space ports would be acceptable. But if they would put up big announcements between game events with videos or pictures+text+links that I couldn't close before X seconds (like youtube does) I would be really annoyed and probably stop playing.
These things are said to come in expansions... And expansions will cost money (If you haven't pledged to get all future expansions for free)