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"CymTyr" <cymtyr@nospam.com> wrote
> "Mark Morrison" <blank@aol.com> wrote in message
>> It all comes down to value for money - Hellgate was screwed from the
>> start, as what you got for your money was fine, but they immediately
>> gave a lot of that stuff for free to the non-subs.
>
> This was indeed a huge problem. Some of us bought lifetime subs for HG:L 
> to support the fledgling company only to find that increasingly with each 
> patch more and more of our "goodies" were being given away for free to 
> entice more people to sub.  I paid $150 for lifetime sub and got exactly 
>  >one< content update the whole time.  So yes, I'm pretty upset with Roper 
> atm.

Ow. So there was no moneyback clause in the lifetime sub if, for instance, 
the company went under in less than 12 months?

>> I'd imagine Blizzard will put more thought into it, but I can't see
>> what they'd offer for Diablo 2, for subscribers - bigger stash ?
>>
>> I can only assume that they're testing the waters for Diablo 3
>> pay-for-online-play.
>
> I think they're being a bit greedy with this one.  They're releasing 
> Starcraft 2 as 3 separate games supposedly to better tell the story (yeah

I didn't know this - very interesting. I can't see anyone being excited 
about that - except perhaps the pirates.

> tell us another), and they're probably turning b.net into p2p.  This 
> amounts to increased revenue for them, as if they don't get enough from 
> WoW.
>
> I'm actually pretty disappointed in Blizzard.  I'm still getting D3 but I 
> won't pay to play online.  As far as the two separate mmos they are 
> developing, if one of them is related to Diablo I'll look into it, but I'm 
> not getting it just because it's a Blizzard product.
>
> Saying that, the one thing they do do for you is if you have prepaid time 
> on your WoW account you can call and have them suspend it till you come 
> back to WoW.  So some things they will do for you...

That made me think - are there any MMOs which operate on a "pay as you go" 
model rather than a monthly sub? The only reason I don't play MMOs is 
because my gaming is very irregular: one month I'll do a hundred hours of 
gaming, but then the following month I'll do five or six hours, and some 
months none at all. It all depends what's happening in RL, and I don't set 
aside particular times for gaming, so paying a monthly fee doesn't work for 
me at all. But I'd consider paying for a set number of hours, or a set 
number playing days in a 6- or 12-month period. Then it wouldn't matter if I 
went three months without playing, it wouldn't cost me anything.

Just curious to see whether anyone knows of such MMOs.

CC