Do people understand the great benefits of a subscription based system?
The devs get a constant secure income and can keep evolving, expanding and servecing the game without having to trick us into buying payware dlc, skins, expansions etc, all those things would be available for "free".
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Do people understand the great benefits of a subscription based system?
The devs get a constant secure income and can keep evolving, expanding and servecing the game without having to trick us into buying payware dlc, skins, expansions etc, all those things would be available for "free".
They do have to worry about keeping playercounts, and that is done by evolving the game and adding to ita content.
People pay subscription costs for internet, tv, sports broadcasts, music, training/sports facilities, but when it comes to gaming, apperently its not worthwhile? Wth?
People pay subscription costs for internet, tv, sports broadcasts, music, training/sports facilities, but when it comes to gaming, apperently its not worthwhile? Wth?
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Head for the stars, take a ship and trade, bounty-hunt, pirate or assassinate your way across the galaxy in this massively multiplayer online space adventure
Copy pasted from ED main page. Just saying....
Yup:
- Massive: the entire online player base affects the same galaxy (which is huge, by the way);
- Multi-player: Yes;
- Online: Yes.
No: it is not a cookie-cutter implementation of an MMO (or is it really MMORPG that people are referring to?) that players may have played previously.
But... what are we up to now? A maximum of 24, 32 players per instance? And with all of the inherent problems associated with peer-to-peer. That aspect is not massive. Not even a little bit massive.
Ekhm:
This is very, very unguarded statement right there.
Indeed, it is total conjecture at this point.
Allowing some players (the shouty ones who team up) to hold sway over the developers is probably not a good idea - it has happened in at least one game to very mixed reviews from those who have experience of it.
Pitfalls as in the possible player influence mentioned above, the fact that even at £5 per month a player would in effect be paying for the game one-and-a-half times a year (based on the present retail price).
Not everyone is particularly interested in the multi-player game - that much has been clear from the outset as evidenced by the solo-offline mode that has been added.
Frontier are creating the game to make money, of course - that is what companies do. They are not a charity. Opting for a buy-to-play with paid expansions model rather than subscription model allows Frontier to retain control of the development of the game and prioritise expansions as they choose.
The late introduction of subs would without doubt taint the perception of a large proportion of the c.140k backers who have already bought into the game. Being required to pay over-and-over for a game already paid for is not going to appeal to all players (or potential players).
Again, your expectation of constant hassle is an expectation based on your opinion - it has yet to come to fruition.
Yep, and we know your opinion as well.
You wan't SP
Even though this thread started as a discussion on whether you would pay monthly or not apparently it sidetracked.
Most people argue that they don't want/can't pay a sub because no money, no time, no whatever.
However they are more than willing to pay for expansions, dlc, skins, microtransactions.
Am i the only one that can see a flaw in this argument?
Apparently this is not a discussion about the sub model per se but rather if you are willing to pay or not for extra stuff period.
Also to everyone who says that can't pay 5-10 Euro/dollars/we per month how can you buy an expansion?
Flawed arguments everywhere.
Either add something constructive to the thread or not at all
Peace
Even though this thread started as a discussion on whether you would pay monthly or not apparently it sidetracked.
Most people argue that they don't want/can't pay a sub because no money, no time, no whatever.
However they are more than willing to pay for expansions, dlc, skins, microtransactions.
Am i the only one that can see a flaw in this argument?
Apparently this is not a discussion about the sub model per se but rather if you are willing to pay or not for extra stuff period.
Also to everyone who says that can't pay 5-10 Euro/dollars/we per month how can you buy an expansion?
Flawed arguments everywhere.
Either add something constructive to the thread or not at all
Peace