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Whats wrong with paying to play I've never understood anyone having the argument that no game is worth paying to play [img]smile.gif[/img] . When I'm not playing an MMORPG I buy at least 1-2 games a month which costs 50-100 bucks. If I'm playing an MMORPG that keeps me occupied so I only pay 10 bucks a month. Seems cheaper to me. Also developers actually get the money they deserve with a game like this. Part of the reason companies like sirtech go out of buisness is they only get like 2-4 bucks profit off of a retail single player game. So they have to sell tons and tons of copies to make up for the development cost. Sadly most of the reason they get such a pitiful amount is due to the way the retail outlets jack them over by requiring advertising for shelf space and what not.
That's why your starting to see some online games that you can get for almost free (Lineage). In the end the money they make ends up being enormous in comparison to even the best selling games on the market. This is why everquest is the most successful game ever (alltho I'm not sure it even deserves to be successful). I havn't checked lately but I'd be willing to bet that Everquest alone has made more profit than every final fantasy game ever produced. I don't even want to comprehend how much money Lineage(a game with 2 million subscribers at about 15 bucks a month in Korea). With profits like that I wish wiz 8 would of been an MMORPG just so they could still be in buisness and planing wiz 8..9..10 ... etc.
Amaron
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