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On Nov 12, 6:40 pm, "Ross \(RPJ\)" <ros...@nospamshaw.ca> wrote:
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> > "Trammel" <M...@Server.com> wrote in message
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> >> "Magnate" <n...@receiving.here> wrote in message
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> >>> "CymTyr" <cym...@nospam.com> wrote
> >>>> "Mark Morrison" <bl...@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.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>> Ow. So there was no moneyback clause in the lifetime sub if, for
> >>> instance, the company went under in less than 12 months?
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> >>>>> 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 ?
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> >>>>> I can only assume that they're testing the waters for Diablo 3
> >>>>> pay-for-online-play.
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> >>>> 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
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> >>> I didn't know this - very interesting. I can't see anyone being excited
> >>> about that - except perhaps the pirates.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>>> 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...
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> Just curious to see whether anyone knows of such MMOs.
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> >>> CC
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> >> Some common free games with item shops can be found at:
> >> *http://us.91.com/(most known game: Conquer Online)
> >> *http://www.gpotato.com/(most known game: Flyff)
> >> *http://www.joymax.com/portal/(most known game: Silkroad Online)
> >> *http://9dragons.acclaim.com/
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> >> Then ofcourse you have membership based games where you can play for free
> >> but members pay to use additional content like:
> >> *http://www.dungeonrunners.com/(3D Diablo2 MMO, basically)
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> >> Almost everything available as pay-monthly can be found in one of the
> >> free download games with items shops - another reason why I wont play
> >> pay-monthly stuff... its an antiquated method of forcing money out of
> >> people with them getting nothing in return & all companies that try this
> >> deserve to fail and collapse.
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> > Oops - nearly forgot this one.
> >http://perfectworld.com/
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> > This is a great free game where you can do martial arts, use bows, use
> > magic, fly on animals/swords/with your own wings, etc...
> > ...its got a huge (almost never ending) amount of different quests, huge
> > playing area, monsters of various levels incase you dont like quests...
> > safe, consentual and PvP areas... item shop for upgrades, etc... and the
> > best thing my girlfriend liked is that the male characters can lift up the
> > females, give them a kiss and then fly with the woman still in their arms
> > :¬P
> > (plus my favorite part... I can drop her in the sea ;¬)
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> A truly perfect world ;>)

ROFLMAO... spoken like a married man :)