[Luvian]

You're not paying only for the privilege to play the game. Every MMORPGs I played added new quests, items and content every months, so I've been buying a new expension every months. That's awesome.

For exemple, in Asheron's Call 1, every months we got at least 3 new quests and dungeons. Every 6 months or so, we got a new landmass.

The story also kept evolving. One month, the capital got invaded by monsters and it was blown up. For the next year it was a crater until they rebuild it.

Once, dev controlled monster attacked the high level city, killed every player, and kidnaped the npcs shopkeepers, and we had to go free them in a dungeon.

Once, we had to keep a week long 24 hours per day vigil against dev controlled npcs and evil players to protect the seal of a demon.

The legendary characters of the world were played by devs in events. We had tons of different storyline. When that demon got released, he went into towns to threatened and kille people. One guy even got to swear fealty to him because the demon liked him.

Often we had to make choices that would affect the storyline. In one event, we had to decide if an npc that got manipulated into betraying us would survive or die. Once, a guy that was our ennemy alied with us against a greater foe, and died fighting it... That's just the surface. I played it 3 years and kept getting things like that all the time. Invasions, allies, ennemies... I only stoped playing when I lost access to a credit card. I never got to see or do everything there was in the game, and I played 3 years.

It was the same thing in Ragnarok Online and Lineage II, it will be the same thing in World of Warcraft...

Show me a single player game that give you that much. Are there any single player game that give you a new expension every month for 10$. I don't think so...

[ 11-10-2004, 01:46 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]