I don't like paying monthly fees for games and I think its ridiculous to pay more than $10 a month on top of paying $50 retail for the game to play online. If the fee were lets say $5 or under, thats alot more reasonable. Besides that, I wonder if the game will have any single player, you know, to continue the story that frozen throne left off. Thanks.
World of Warcraft - Any single player campaigns?
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ArmchairAthlete
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There's no single player/offline for WoW. Period.
A few reasons why I think pay per month is OK:
-Think of how long most games last you and how much they cost. About $50 for 30 hours or so. ~$13 gets you 80 hours if you play about 20 hours a week. There are ~730 hours in a month =)
-New content is continually added, your fee keeps a team of people working on the game
-That team of people includes some who concentrate on keeping cheating out of the game
-Fee means a more mature crowd. Less annoying kiddies.
-If you're a teen and have a job you can earn $15 in 2-3 hours. It won't seem like much $.
A few reasons why I think pay per month is OK:
-Think of how long most games last you and how much they cost. About $50 for 30 hours or so. ~$13 gets you 80 hours if you play about 20 hours a week. There are ~730 hours in a month =)
-New content is continually added, your fee keeps a team of people working on the game
-That team of people includes some who concentrate on keeping cheating out of the game
-Fee means a more mature crowd. Less annoying kiddies.
-If you're a teen and have a job you can earn $15 in 2-3 hours. It won't seem like much $.
Schadenfroh
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Geez, I can't believe so many people feel like they don't have to pay for a MMORPG. Just think about it really hard and all the work and development throughout the years and years of it being played and you'll understand. They need to keep their servers maintained, their employees payed, and the game updated. People don't work for free, and I don't mean to sound rude, and in no way do I mean too, but think about those people who work there.
And the answer is simply stated No... No single player in an MMO, no single player in any MMO that I know of.
edro
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I believe in fees 100%.
Have you ever played a good MMORPG? How could a game like Everquest or Asheron's Call stay online if all those people payed $40 for the game, then played on their expensive servers for 4-5 years? They would be totally dependent on new users, which wouldn't be near enough money to pay for the bandwidth alone.
Fees also keep the crowd more mature. It limits the hacks and exploits as well. No one wants to have their their account deleted after they have poored that much money into it. (Although people still do
)
Also, fees keep the game up to date, by adding content, and preventing exploits and hacks, in the form of patches. How many patches have come out for Bloodrayne (single player only game)? None.
A point to add on your defense though, Diablo 2 is a great example of a MMORPG (I know that's a big streatch), where there are no fees and it is constantly updated with patches. Then again, this is Blizzard we are talking about. Of course, hacks are still rampant...
Have you ever played a good MMORPG? How could a game like Everquest or Asheron's Call stay online if all those people payed $40 for the game, then played on their expensive servers for 4-5 years? They would be totally dependent on new users, which wouldn't be near enough money to pay for the bandwidth alone.
Fees also keep the crowd more mature. It limits the hacks and exploits as well. No one wants to have their their account deleted after they have poored that much money into it. (Although people still do
)Also, fees keep the game up to date, by adding content, and preventing exploits and hacks, in the form of patches. How many patches have come out for Bloodrayne (single player only game)? None.
A point to add on your defense though, Diablo 2 is a great example of a MMORPG (I know that's a big streatch
), where there are no fees and it is constantly updated with patches. Then again, this is Blizzard we are talking about. Of course, hacks are still rampant...
BlueWeasel
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When I was playing Asheron's Call for 15-20 hours per week and had NO social life, the $10 I paid per month was a BARGAIN
As for the single player element, I was testing the Night Elf race for a storyline led quest series. Where I had to learn the history of my race by completing several quests. In the end there was a reward, but I believe Blizzard will grant you a racial ability at the end of these quests.
Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
When I was playing Asheron's Call for 50+ hours per week and had NO social life, the $10 I paid per month was a BARGAIN
Ummmm.....
At the height of my Star Wars Galaxies addiction I was spending around 20hrs a day on the game for 6months.... Now that is HOOKED!
I would play till servers up till servers down...
I challenge anyone to beat that, I am proud of it! =P
I was out of school and even when I was in school I still played for around 15hrs a day, but out of it it was always around 20hrs.
At the height of my Star Wars Galaxies addiction I was spending around 20hrs a day on the game for 6months.... Now that is HOOKED!
I would play till servers up till servers down...
I challenge anyone to beat that, I am proud of it! =P
I was out of school and even when I was in school I still played for around 15hrs a day, but out of it it was always around 20hrs.
BlueWeasel
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:Q
20 hours a day? You've got to be kidding!
I played AC1 seriously for a year and I spent a total of 30 days total of in-game time. During those 12 months, approximately 1/12 of my life was spent playing.
ArmchairAthlete
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You can during summer break. You don't *have* to invest a lot of time in an mmo, but it certaintly does help. They are games that you don't get a lot out of if you don't have big blocks of time to spend playing.
If you're putting an MMORPG above your education or job you're going to have some trouble before long...
I'm worried about what combining a tough college and WoW will do next year. I might even have to cancel my WoW account and cut up the cds, but I hope things don't come to that somehow.
I'm dead serious man... I was hooked... Then they nerfed everything to hell and soon my profession went from doing 32k dmg to 5k dmg and I quit.... Thats not the whole reason though but a great deal of it.
I knew I wasn't getting only but maybe 4hrs of sleep or so but when I got to playin, I was wide awake and ready to battle...
I was so hooked I didn't think or bother to go to the bathroom until I went to bed after I got up the day before.
So hooked that I actually didn't even think to eat until dinner time and I had not been hungry all day...
I sh!t you not... This is truth.. My friends told me it was unhealthy, I guess it was like crack for me, I quit my addiction, bad for the body...
Yah my latest addiction is WoW, my friend has beta and I go over to his house a lot..
When I get WoW... I might as well cease to only exist in the gameworld because thats where I'll be all the time.
Held a full time job + hectic social life(ain't no party like an EH party) + played in a frequent raiding guild in EQ with no problems. Budget your time, don't let the game control you. Its really pretty simple.
Worst game addiction I have seen in person was an old roomate.
I had AC1 and my roomate decided he wanted it so he went & purchased it in the afternoon.
He plays it the rest of the day & all night...next day I am thinking he is gonna crash soon.
Nope, he plays all day and I go to bed that night & when I wake up. He is still playing! I go and make breakfast & after I walk by his room and he is passed out on the keyboard with his character standing at the lifestone (he died).
Anyways he was hardcore & failed every single class that semester.
I had AC1 and my roomate decided he wanted it so he went & purchased it in the afternoon.
He plays it the rest of the day & all night...next day I am thinking he is gonna crash soon.
Nope, he plays all day and I go to bed that night & when I wake up. He is still playing! I go and make breakfast & after I walk by his room and he is passed out on the keyboard with his character standing at the lifestone (he died).
Anyways he was hardcore & failed every single class that semester.
You only had a mild case if compared to EQ addictions. You had to fill the following pre-requesites for it to be a decent addiction:
Get a divorce.
Lose job.
Run out of money in real life.
Sleep with people to further your character developement
Break ties with your own family in real life.
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