flexy
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- Sep 28, 2001
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I only had a very quick look at ESO when my wife d/led the last beta...so I really only had a chance to look at it for 2 mins or so...mind you: LOOK at it, I didn't play.
The point is that they want $15ish per month and I think that THIS will be the major criteria for the game. (Make no mistake, we both also played WoW religiously before it got bad..but then we knew WHY we spend this amount every month).
For example, right now we both play The Secret World which cost a one-time fee for me $15 from a CD store online and the key for my wife even less, $12....a ONE TIME payment for an otherwise excellent MMORPG with finally some new ideas.
The question is...can ESO online justify such an amount PER MONTH..eg. will it be so grand and SOOOO fantastic that it would be at least "as good" as WoW so that people will happily pay...in a game genre which otherwise had been pretty much done to death already...this is MY question. Can ESO really deliver such an experience which would justify spending the amount for a game like TSW...each and every month?
Now..this is not only my own view (not that I personally see $15 as an issue) but has already been pointed out in many other reviews/previews. There is a reason why SWTOR and many other MMORPGs went F2P....simply because people today are NOT willing to spend $15 so easily as back in the times where WoW was the newest and coolest thing.
Furthermore, I personally expect certain things from an MMORPG...for instance the social component etc. for an MMORPg is very important to me. (Duh, because otherwise I wouldn't play a MMORPg but a single-player game!), also things like PvP and all THOSE things where I really see the benefit of being in an MMORPG. Whether ESO can satisfy that I don't know. All I know is that a MMORPG which in essence is a single-player game and which WOULD lack in the fundamental things which make a MMORPG good is pointless. (Simply "many people able to play at the same time" doesn't make a MMORPG...it would then only be a software piracy protection for a game in disguise).
Obviously, since I never played ESO I can't say anything about how it will be in regards to its MMORPG aspect...but as I told my wife: "I don't need a MMORPG or a monthly subscription for a game where I may end up farming mushrooms for hours and hours"
The point is that they want $15ish per month and I think that THIS will be the major criteria for the game. (Make no mistake, we both also played WoW religiously before it got bad..but then we knew WHY we spend this amount every month).
For example, right now we both play The Secret World which cost a one-time fee for me $15 from a CD store online and the key for my wife even less, $12....a ONE TIME payment for an otherwise excellent MMORPG with finally some new ideas.
The question is...can ESO online justify such an amount PER MONTH..eg. will it be so grand and SOOOO fantastic that it would be at least "as good" as WoW so that people will happily pay...in a game genre which otherwise had been pretty much done to death already...this is MY question. Can ESO really deliver such an experience which would justify spending the amount for a game like TSW...each and every month?
Now..this is not only my own view (not that I personally see $15 as an issue) but has already been pointed out in many other reviews/previews. There is a reason why SWTOR and many other MMORPGs went F2P....simply because people today are NOT willing to spend $15 so easily as back in the times where WoW was the newest and coolest thing.
Furthermore, I personally expect certain things from an MMORPG...for instance the social component etc. for an MMORPg is very important to me. (Duh, because otherwise I wouldn't play a MMORPg but a single-player game!), also things like PvP and all THOSE things where I really see the benefit of being in an MMORPG. Whether ESO can satisfy that I don't know. All I know is that a MMORPG which in essence is a single-player game and which WOULD lack in the fundamental things which make a MMORPG good is pointless. (Simply "many people able to play at the same time" doesn't make a MMORPG...it would then only be a software piracy protection for a game in disguise).
Obviously, since I never played ESO I can't say anything about how it will be in regards to its MMORPG aspect...but as I told my wife: "I don't need a MMORPG or a monthly subscription for a game where I may end up farming mushrooms for hours and hours"
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